IXB TALENT - Key Persons
Alice Levine is an award winning presenter and one of the most sought after voices in broadcasting today. With a wealth of experience across live television and radio, she has successfully turned her hand to comedy, entertainment and documentaries and is the go-to choice for smart, funny and sophisticated programming.
On radio, Alice is best known for her near decade at BBC Radio 1. She joined the station in the much coveted late-night John Peel slot and later moved to weekend breakfast, and finally to Friday - Sunday 1-4pm for which she won the Music Week Best Radio Show Award. Alice has also recently hosted shows for BBC Radio 4 including The Museum of Curiosity and Pick of The Week and fronted a show for Radio 2's The Beatles pop station.
Her ability to balance a journalistic tone with warmth and wit has made her the first choice for the official hosting duties of many major cultural events like The Mercury Music Prize, The BRITs and BAFTA Awards as well as Music Week's Women in Music Awards for it's sixth consecutive year. She also fronted the launch series of Channel 4's ‘reality-show-with-a-twist', The Circle. Alice's intelligence and humour has made her highly in demand on renowned comedy shows including Qi (BBC2), Have I Got News For You (BBC2), 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Would I Lie To You (BBC1), Taskmaster (Dave), Room 101 (BBC1) and Travel Man (Channel 4).
In the documentary space, Alice presented the critically-acclaimed Sleeping with the Far Right (Channel 4) which saw her living with a former UKIP and BNP member. You can also see her three-part series on modern romance, Levine on Love on BBC3. And in Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future (Channel 4) Alice travelled to Japan to explore their tech solutions for overcoming the planet's biggest issues. Having seen her skills in action, Louis Theroux has taken Alice under his wing as his first protégé, exec-producing her three documentary films, in a series called Sex Actually with Alice Levine (Channel 4), which saw her travel the UK and explore what sex means for modern Brits.
Away from TV and Radio it's possible that Alice has made an even bigger splash. My Dad Wrote a Porno, Britain's biggest comedy podcast, has been described as ‘a cultural phenomenon' (The Sunday Times). Now in its 6th series, it has amassed over 300 million downloads, plus created two sell-out world tours (including Sydney Opera House and Royal Albert Hall), an HBO comedy special, Hollywood fans in Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dame Emma Thompson, Dan Levy, Nicholas Hoult and Michael Sheen and rave reviews from the likes of Variety, The Guardian and Time Magazine. Her influence in the world of podcasting doesn't end there. In 2021 American podcast mega-producers, Wondery, asked her to front their latest title, British Scandal, which went straight in at No.1 in the UK charts. Another runaway hit is Audible's Very Modern Quests, an improvisation format where you can hear Alice holding her own with some of the UK's comedy talents. More recently Alice has fronted BBC 5 Live's Sports Strangest Crimes: The Trillion Dollar Conman.
Outside of broadcasting, Alice has partnered with a number of brands on campaigns and has had ambassadorial roles with the likes of Estee Lauder, Samsung and Peroni.
She carved out time around her work commitments to co-found and run eponymous supperclub brand Jackson&Levine, with Laura Jackson, for 5 years. The word-of-mouth success led to two homeware ranges for Habitat (the latter of which sold out within three hours), monthly columns for Company, Elle and Marie Claire plus a cookbook.
Alice Liveing is a personal trainer, best selling author, podcast host and influencer. Having gone through her own journey with her mental and physical health, Alice has amassed a following of over 700k across all platforms and released three books; The Body Bible, Eat Well Every Day and Everyday Fitness.
Alice is a full qualified coach who works from London gym Third Space where she has coached the likes of Jodie Comer, Suranne Jones and Maya Jama. Her passion is in helping women to embrace resistance training and to get everyone to enjoy movement and exercise rather than seeing it as a punishment or chore.
Alice has released three sellout collections with her fitness wear range at Primark as well as worked with brands including, River Island, Sweaty Betty, Herbal Essences and Samsung. Her global reach has seen her appear on leading publications globally, including the NY Post and 3x Women's Health UK cover star, who she's also a monthly columnist for. Alongside these, she hosts her monthly Liveing Well panel events.
She has also been made an ambassador for Womens aid. Alice hosts her podcast ‘Give Me Strength' which focuses on those who have found an inner resilience through finding physical strength. Guests range from athletes to those who have just found a passion in exercise.
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- Founder & CEO / Insanity Group
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Biography
Caroline Pearce is a former International heptathlete and bobsledder for Great Britain and successful TV Presenter, reporter, commentator and event host. She is a published author and go-to fitness and nutrition consultant and influencer with a First Class Honours Degree in Sports Science and Master's Degree in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Loughborough University. You may also know her as ‘Ice' from the revival of the hit TV show ‘UK Gladiators' on Sky 1!
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- Member of the Insanity Talent Management Team
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- Member of the Insanity Talent Management Team
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Charlie Webster is a broadcaster, writer and journalist across both TV and Radio. She has worked globally for major TV networks, events and brands from the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cup's to premiere in-depth interviews ranging from superstars such as Arnold Schwarzengger to leading politicians. She made history in the early days of her career becoming the first woman to present football in Asia at just 23 and later the first female globally to anchor a Heavyweight World Title Fight. She has spent the last 2 years broadcasting on BBC 5live, hosting weekend breakfast and co-hosting a weekly show with Adrian Chiles. Charlie writes about wider social issues in sport including mental health and culture for BBC Sport, and is a regular contributor to The Telegraph. Charlie is currently working on a BBC One documentary to be broadcast early 2021.
Charlie does extensive advocacy work campaigning around domestic and sexual abuse, as part of this she has an advisory role to the Ministry of Justice on the Secretary of State's Victims Panel. She is an ambassador for Women's Aid and NSPCC Campaigner for Childhood. She is the creator and host of critically acclaimed podcast Undiscussable, an investigative series into domestic abuse that gives a challenging rethinking of the issue. Charlie's Undiscussable was commissioned for an 8 part special series during lockdown by TalkRadio for their drivetime show. Charlie hosted, created and exec produced the show. She is also the creator and host of Apple recommended ‘My Sporting Mind' podcast, an intimate show that speaks to sports stars about mental health.
Charlie speaks internationally and has been a keynote speaker at the US senate, the UN, African government and UK Parliament to name a few and in late 2019 gave a TEDx talk on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with the NHS. She has spoken as a female changemaker with UNF project Girl Up, The Female Lead and Inspiring Girls International. Charlie led a coalition of charities, Lord's and MPs, and successfully campaigned for the Home Secretary to include children in the definition of the Domestic Abuse Bill. She is a trustee of the London Youth Games and currently leading a Commission with fellow broadcaster Adrian Chiles on sport in low-income neighborhoods and community clubs supported by Street Games and Beckett Research.
Charlie was honoured in Parliament as a Fundraising hero after engaging men to talk about abuse as part of Charlie's Big Challenge that saw her run 250 miles to and from 40 football clubs throughout England, she was also recognised in that year's JustGiving Award for Celebrity Fundraiser of the Year. Charlie was driven by the domestic abuse she suffered in her childhood, and the sexual abuse at the hands of her running coach as an junior athlete. In 2016 Charlie took on the epic challenge of cycling 3000 miles from London to Rio for charity, which she successfully completed but then immediately fell ahead of presenting the Rio Games and became critically ill in Brazil contracting malaria and 3 other tropical diseases. She was given 24 hours to live and put on life support in a coma. Surviving, with doctors calling her ‘a miracle' Charlie had to relearn how to walk again, work through brain hemorrhaging and battle for her kidneys to work independently. Since then she has become a special ambassador for Malaria No More, leading campaigns with David Beckham and worked with the Global Fund and the UN to secure continued international funding in the fight against Malaria. This included her speaking at CHOGM where Bill Gates was leading the charge. She made a film in Uganda as part of the Malaria Must Die global campaign. Charlie is a keen Ironman triathlete and marathon runner. Driven by her own mental health and trauma in childhood, she recently qualified in schema psychotherapy and continually pursues her interest in behavioural psychology.
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- Member of the Insanity Talent Management Team
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- Senior Talent Manager / Insanity Group LLC
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Grace Blakeley is an English economics and politics commentator, columnist, journalist and author. She is the staff writer for Tribune magazine and was previously the economics commentator of the New Statesman. She is also a regular contributor to Novara Media.
Her first book, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation was published in 2019 by Repeater Books and her second book, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism was published in October 2020. She is currently writing her next book, which will be published by Bloomsbury in 2024.
Grace is a prominent voice in the UK media, and features frequently on both radio and TV. She has previously appeared on Question Time, Politics Live, BBC Breakfast, BBC This Week, BBC News, Good Morning Britain, The Andrew Marr Show, Sky News, BBC Radio 4, LBC and many other outlets discussing both current political events and specific economic developments. Grace is a regular contributor on TalkTV's The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn as well as regularly appearing on the channels flagship programme, Piers Morgan Uncensored.
She is also an experienced public speaker, speaking at many conferences, panels and roundtable across the globe on issues related to economics and politics.
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Sali Hughes is a journalist, presenter and broadcaster, specialising in beauty. A former magazine editor, she has written extensively for Vogue, Elle, Grazia, The Telegraph, The Observer, Red, Stylist, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Shortlist, Radio Times, Woman & Home, Good Housekeeping and Net-a-Porter, and was popular resident columnist on The Pool and Empire magazine (both of which have seen her twice-nominated for Columnist of The Year). She has been Beauty Editor on The Guardian since 2011, where she is known for her intelligent, straight-talking advice and honest product recommendations that are recognised across the beauty industry as having "the Delia effect" on sales.
Sali is a very experienced radio broadcaster, appearing frequently on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (for whom she has also presented three in-programme series), Late Night Woman's Hour, You & Yours, and The Today Programme. Since 2015, Sali has also presented her own show on Soho Radio. She has made many guest television appearances on Sky News, BBC2's Newsnight, ITV's This Morning, Good Morning Britain and Lorraine. She has written and presented her own factual reports on homelessness for BBC One Wales, Trolling for BBC Radio 4 and appeared as beauty expert on a number of consumer shows, including BBC One's The Truth About Beauty and BBC2's What to Buy and Why. Her own popular YouTube series of "In The Bathroom…" interviews has won three industry awards.
Sali launched the hugely successful first season podcast of ‘Beyond The Bathroom' in 2022, having had her first taste of podcasting in 2019 during which she curated and presented a landmark podcast series for Avon Cosmetics - ‘The Beauty Podcast', becoming a Webby Awards Honoree for Best Podcast Host and quickly amassing one million listener minutes. The podcast debuted at number 1 in the UK iTunes charts.
Sali has presented a number of TV industry events for the BBC, Channel 4 and BAFTA, chaired countless discussion panels for high profile brands, organisations and at all major UK literary festivals. In 2016, she accepted a prestigious invitation to address The Oxford Union, arguing that beauty, feminism and substance are not mutually exclusive; and in 2018, chaired a parliamentary summit on poverty in Westminster. This followed her co-founding Beauty Banks, a nationwide charity providing essential toiletries to people living in poverty, for which she and co-founder Jo Jones have won several major awards, including The Big Issue's Changemakers 2019 and 2021, You Magazine's Most Extraordinary Women of 2021 and have also received a nomination for the lifetime achievement award at the 2020 Vogue Beauty Awards.
Sali has written four bestselling books; Everything Is Washable (2022), Our Rainbow Queen (2019), Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at The Beauty Products That Changed The World (2016) and Pretty Honest: The Straight-Talking Beauty Companion (2014).
In early 2022, Sali became a beauty brand founder with her multi-award winning skincare range launching exclusively with Revolution Beauty and Superdrug.
She lives in Brighton with her two sons and husband, TV comedy writer Daniel Maier. In 2019, she won the J&J Award for Outstanding Contribution to Beauty, and the prestigious CEW Achiever awards, both as voted by industry peers.
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- Member of the Insanity Talent Management Team
- Team Assistant / Insanity Talent Management
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- Group Finance Director / Insanity Group
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- Senior Talent Manager
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- Senior Talent Manager
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- Non - Executive Director / Insanity Group
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- Senior Talent Manager / Insanity Group LLC