Vicki Butler-Henderson
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Vicki Butler-Henderson (born 16 February 1972, in Hertfordshire, England) is a racing driver and presenter on British TV. She was educated at The Perse School for Girls in Cambridge.
Originally Butler-Henderson worked as a racing driver - she started racing at the age of 12 - and racing instructor before moving into journalism where she worked on numerous British motoring magazines including Auto Express, What Car? and Performance Car. For a time she was also the mechanic in Max Power magazine, referred to simply as VBH.
In 1997 she joined the BBC's flagship motoring show Top Gear. After the BBC cancelled the original show in 2001, Butler-Henderson, along with co-presenters Quentin Willson and Tiff Needell, moved to Channel 5 in 2002 to continue their work on a show now called Fifth Gear.
As well as presenting Top Gear and Fifth Gear, Butler-Henderson has also co-hosted radio shows on Virgin Radio and has recorded voice overs for television advertisements with her immediately recognisable gravelly voice. She also presents ITV coverage of the British Touring Car Championship, in which her brother Charlie briefly competed in 2004.
In early 2005 it was announced she had signed a contract to present a daytime television show for ITV called Date My Daughter in which a single man 'dates' three mothers of single women. After the dates the women decide if he is worthy enough to date their daughter. The first series was first broadcast starting in May 2005.
In January 2006, Vicki appeared in a TV commercial for the Kent & Medway Safety Camera Partnership in which she stated that the Partnership "don't want your cash, they just want you to slow down".
From February 2006 she presented the ten-part series Wrecks To Riches for Discovery Real Time, but was replaced for the second series starting in December 2006 by former racing driver, Amanda Stretton.
Vicki drives a Honda S2000 and a Porsche Boxster.
As well as Fifth Gear, she now presents The Biggest Loser UK on Living TV.
[edit] External links
- Date My Daughter at itv.com
- Upclose at itv.com (Interview with Vicki Butler-Henderson)
- five.tv - Fifth Gear
- VB-H - fansite
| Top Gear |
| Top Gear (1977 to 2001) - Top Gear (2002 to present) |
| Original format presenters |
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| Jason Barlow - Steve Berry - Julia Bradbury - Jeremy Clarkson - Vicki Butler-Henderson - Brendan Coogan - Noel Edmonds - Chris Goffey - Kate Humble
Tony Mason - James May - Tiff Needell - Michele Newman - Angela Rippon - Quentin Willson - William Woollard |
| Current format presenters |
| Jeremy Clarkson - Jason Dawe - Richard Hammond - James May - The Stig |
| Current format episodes and broadcasters |
| Top Gear Episode List - Top Gear Broadcasters and Video Releases |
| Current format featured segments |
| Power Laps - Races - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car - The Cool Wall - Caravan destruction - Cheap Car Challenges |
| Spin-offs |
| Rally Report - Top Gear Motorsport - Stars in Fast Cars - Top Gear of the Pops |
| Related articles |
| Top Gear Magazine - Jon Bentley - Fifth Gear |
