Konnie Huq Biography

Konnie Huq (born July 17, 1975 in Ealing, London) is a presenter on British television. She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School in London, and Robinson College, Cambridge, where she obtained a first in economics. Her parents moved to England from Bangladesh in the 1960s and she grew up in Ealing. She has two sisters, Rupa and Nutun.

Prior to joining Blue Peter, Konnie also presented on Five's Milkshake as well as interviewing Neil Kinnock for the children's programme Newsround. When she was 14, she was a guest on Blue Peter with the National Youth Music Theatre, where she sang a solo.

Huq currently presents the children's television show Blue Peter and became its first Asian presenter when she joined on 1 December 1997. Between 2002 and 2004 she co-presented the CBBC Channel's UK Top 40.

One of her most memorable early moments on Blue Peter was going to Bangladesh and visiting her extended family who she hadn't seen in a long time. In the 2004 Blue Peter summer expedition to India, Konnie became an extra in a Bollywood film and practised dancing alongside its the stars. For the 2004 Blue Peter Welcome Home appeal, she made an emotional visit to Angola on behalf of Blue Peter, in the hope of reuniting children with the families they had been separated from due to war.

In 2005, she took part in the BBC reality TV show Comic Relief does Fame Academy, in aid of Comic Relief, and was the third contestant to be voted off. She also travelled to Uganda and met orphan children, on behalf of Comic Relief. She is currently a celebrity ambassador for the British Red Cross.

Her boyfriend, former Blue Peter co-presenter Richard Bacon, was sacked from the programme in 1998 after admitting to having taken cocaine. Konnie's relationship with Richard remains strong, although she often complains about his obsession with golf.