Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu Hope (born 25 September 1989) is a British TV and radio presenter, journalist and published author.
Hope hosts three shows a week across BBC Radio 1: Going Home with Vick and Jordan alongside Jordan North, and Life Hacks and Official Chart: First Look with Katie Thistleton. The Sunday Times dubbed Vick a "voice of a generation" when she started at BBC Radio 1 in 2020.
Hope hosted the 2022 Women's Prize For Fiction podcast series after she was on the 2021 judging panel. In the summer of 2022, Vick hosted her own television show Vick Hope's Breakfast Show which aired across ITV every Sunday morning.
Hope previously hosted the Capital Breakfast show on Capital FM with Roman Kemp and Sonny Jay, Crufts on Channel 4, Carnage on Sky One, Trending Live on 4Music, and FYI Daily on ITV2. She was also a backstage presenter for ITV's The X Factor in 2019 after becoming the digital reporter for The Voice UK in 2018. In 2020, she became the red carpet host of the 2020 BAFTA Film Awards. In October 2020, it was announced that Hope would host a new ITV Hub sister show entitled I'm a Celebrity...The Daily Drop.
As well as presenting, Hope has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for ITN and publications including The Argentina Independent and Marie Claire. In 2017 Hope won the Broadcasting Powerhouse Award at the Marie Claire Future Shapers Awards. She is a human rights activist and Amnesty International ambassador, having worked with the organisation since she was 16.
Early life
Hope was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne by her English father, Nigel Hope, and Nigerian mother, Adeline Nwosu. She has three younger brothers. She studied modern languages at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and can speak French, Spanish and Portuguese. Hope has spoken in interviews about teaching herself Spanish and taking night classes in Newcastle in extra A-Level subjects to win her place at Cambridge.
Her career began during her university "year abroad" in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where at 19 she became the youngest ever journalist employed by independent English-language expat newspaper The Argentina Independent, and it was while in Buenos Aires that she was picked up by MTV to present shows for them. Following that, she broke into the British television mainstream as a reporter and presenter.
Career
Radio
From 2017–2020, Hope hosted the Capital Breakfast show in London along with Roman Kemp and Sonny Jay. Before this she hosted Weekend Breakfast on sister station, Capital Xtra.
In 2019, Hope joined Classic FM presenting Classic FM's Revision Hour alongside Ellie Goulding, Lewis Capaldi & Dan Smith.
In August 2020, Hope replaced Cel Spellman to co-host Life Hacks and Official Chart: First Look alongside Katie Thistleton on BBC Radio 1.
In June 2021, it was announced that Hope would co-host BBC Radio 1's drivetime show Going Home with Vick and Jordan alongside Jordan North, beginning 6 September 2021.
Television
During June and July 2022, Hope hosted her own television show, Vick Hope's Breakfast Show, which aired across ITV every Sunday morning throughout the summer.
On 20 October 2020, it was announced that Hope would host 2 new ITV Hub shows entitled "HOW" and I'm a Celebrity...The Daily Drop, after the original spin off show, Extra Camp was axed after 17 years on air.
Hope and Kemp have also presented together on ITV2's 2Awesome and Can You Make It for Red Bull TV.
In 2020, Hope hosted the pre-show red carpet for the BAFTA Film Awards. In the same year, Hope presented Channel 4's Crufts alongside Clare Balding. She co-hosted the BRIT Awards 2019 International Live Stream on YouTube with Todrick Hall.
Hope was the backstage presenter for ITV's The X Factor: Celebrity and The X Factor: The Band live final, after hosting The X Factor's spinoff show Xtra Bites.
As well as working as an entertainment reporter for ITV's Lorraine, Hope has presented programmes for Channel 4's 4Music channel since 2014, including Trending Live! with AJ Odudu and Jimmy Hill and interview shows Box Fresh, Face The Fans, HotBox and The Hangout, before which she worked on youth and music shows for Disney Channel UK, MTV, Capital Xtra and Vevo.
In 2018, Hope joined The Voice UK as their backstage reporter having worked for ITV on The Hot Desk (2016) and FYI Daily, where she continues to produce and present the showbiz news.
The same year, Hope was announced to front Sky One's Carnage alongside Freddie Flintoff and Lethal Bizzle. She went on to work further with Sky One and Sky Arts presenting their live coverage of the 2018 Isle of Wight Festival alongside Edith Bowman and Joel Dommett.