Vick Hope Quotes

Vick Hope

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 25, 1989

I'm much better at flirting with women than I am with flirting with men!

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I don't think that we should be trying to forge love online. I think that we should get it offline.

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People living in refugee camps currently do not have access to the healthcare that they need during a pandemic.

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You never know when the tables will turn, so I think we should all just be kind to one another. It's really as simple as that.

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I love a freshly tailored white shirt, dungarees and cute loafers, like Prince George.

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I did some modelling when I was 16 and was told I was a 'palatable kind of brown.' That hit me quite hard. You're not brought up to think it's good to be different and the fashion industry has a responsibility to not reinforce that impression.

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During a university gap year in Argentina I got a job presenting for MTV, and in my final year I was doing bits and pieces for them in London and at ITN. Then, when I graduated, MTV asked if I wanted to be a runner. I said: 'Absolutely!'

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For me, the ideal job would be 'The One Show' because you're constantly talking to new people.

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I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

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I used to sleep on the floor of the BBC in Cambridge when I was doing the Sunday morning graveyard shift; the last train was too early and the first train was too late and I needed to be there.

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In this industry, you're trying to make something of yourself, trying to build something, you want to do a good job - so I did every job under the sun, I did the graveyard shifts.

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I used to do contemporary dance, I'd pretend to be a tree or a rock.

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Dances like Ballroom and Latin are totally outside my comfort zone but I love dancing, it makes people happy - myself included.

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I'd always been fairly sporty. At school I got involved in everything: netball, hockey, cross-country, athletics and I competed in the north east championships. I did a lot of gymnastics when I was younger and then got into my dancing.

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I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the children come from different countries and speak different languages. It's difficult to find things they can all connect and interact with that are non-verbal. Sport is it.

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Grass-roots clubs and organisations were the places growing up where I found solace. It's important that young people have that space and time to realise their potential.

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For my mum, it was really important to teach me and my brothers, so it came more from her to be honest than anything else. She made sure that we just read loads of books about slavery, about black culture, about black history but I don't think everyone would have had that obviously.

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I talk about a lot is how black women are so often referred to as feisty or sassy or aggressive or difficult just for innocuously expressing yourself. I've heard it so much throughout my life - at school and my career - and you get this horrible knotted feeling in the pit of your stomach because you start to believe it about yourself as well.

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I want little black girls, little black boys to know that they can be themselves because they do belong for who that they are.

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I have to get up about half four every morning for the 'Breakfast' show.

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