Vick Hope Quotes

Vick Hope

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 25, 1989

When I first came to London to find work in TV, it was impossible because someone needs to take that chance on you.

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One of the first and most important times someone put their faith in me was when I first worked at ITN, one of the news and entertainment editors trusted me with producing and presenting the 4Music breakfast news. I'd been a runner and did researcher work but I had very little experience in front of the screen.

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Sometimes, when something good happens, it snowballs, and you can't put a price on someone taking a chance on you.

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I did not feel beautiful. I didn't know anyone who looked like me. I remember asking my mum to wash the brown off me in the bath.

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Of course, who you are and what's inside your head is more important than how you look, but that isn't going to be nurtured properly if you don't feel comfortable in your own skin.

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It shouldn't be normal to be told that 'radio is an old boys' club, you'll learn to get used to it.'

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The idea of what forms your identity and whether you fit in as one thing or another is something that we all think about, and something that's definitely been a preoccupation of mine.

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I'm from Newcastle and went to Cambridge University and I worried whether I'd fit in; I'm mixed race, so my mum grew up in Nigeria and my dad grew up in England, and I'd sometimes wonder which culture I felt I identified with better.

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I climbed Kilimanjaro when I was 18.

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It was called 'The Surgery' at the time, but the 'Life Hacks' show was a very important place for me when I was growing up. I remember so many things that I didn't know how to talk to my teachers or my parents about; those hard questions that I had, they were answered on that show.

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It sounds like I literally stand outside of the offices of ITV shouting, 'Give me another spin-off.' But I do love them, I love getting the gossip, I'm a chatty head. With all of those shows, it feels like I'm watching TV and then having a WhatsApp group discussion with my mates. Analysing why people have done X-Y-Z.

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I find children amazing and so interesting, intelligent and insightful - their curiosity is something I can relate to. And I feel they deserve stories that can cultivate them, and if that happens at a young age, then the sky's the limit.

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When you see someone every single day, at 5:30 A.M. in the morning, you have to break down all barriers, you become very close.

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Even at weddings, I'm quite often put on the children's table, even though I'm very much a full adult.

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I'm always up for playing around with fashion and I'm quite open to new ideas and experimenting.

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I'm like a magpie and am drawn to anything shiny, sparkly or bright and you really get that with Ted Baker.

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I love supporting British companies, especially British fashion, and Ted Baker just encapsulates our heritage.

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I'm a big fan of a slit on a dress, so it's always worth having a little look in the mirror just before you go out to see where your limits are and just how far you can pull the leg out if you're posing.

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Of all the people I've ever met that I got a bit tongue-tied around was Chris Moyles. And it was just down the corridor at Radio X. I grew up listening to him, in the car on the way to school, and that voice, you feel like you wake up with him.

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Fandoms are less tribal than they used to be.

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