Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud gets new co-presenter as architect Natasha Huq joins

Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud gets a new co-presenter as architect Natasha Huq joins the Channel 4 show By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 04:07 EDT, 23 July 2021 | Updated: 04:08 EDT, 23 July 2021 He’s fronted the show solo for two decades. And, Grand Designs: The Streets host Kevin McCloud, 62, is to get … Read more

Konnie Huq: Home school’s hard enough when you DO have devices so let’s help the families who don’t

Brace yourselves!’, ‘Eeeek’, ‘Help!’, ‘Oh no… not again!’ read the messages on school WhatsApp feeds across the country when the news broke. It was December 19, a Saturday – the first Saturday of the school Christmas holidays to be precise – and as parents tucked their kids into bed that evening, excited for the Christmas … Read more

Konnie Huq has called for billionaires to be scrapped

TV presenter Konnie Huq has called for billionaires to be scrapped. The longest serving female Blue Peter presenter said she would like to implement a cap on earnings of the richest and distribute the extra money to ‘good causes’ instead. The 45-year-old added that she would increase the wages of key workers, as they are … Read more

WHAT BOOK would presenter and writer Konnie Huq take to a desert island? 

WHAT BOOK would presenter and writer Konnie Huq take to a desert island? Konnie Huq is reading The Future We Choose: Surviving The Climate Crisis  Presenter said she would take A Song Of Ice And Fire series on a desert island  Writer said she saw Upstart Crow play [about Shakespeare] just before lockdown By Daily Mail … Read more

Ex-Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq on being anti-consumerist

TV presenter and children’s author Konnie Huq thinks people who buy brand names are wasting their money and should be spending their cash either trying to make society more equal – or saving lives. Huq, 44, who made her name as the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, says she doesn’t need any more money … Read more

How Konnie Huq helps the planet: no spending money on clothes

Desperate times need desperate measures and in the kitchen of her west London home, former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq is mulling over the idea of tying herself semi-naked to a tree round the corner from her house. ‘It’s definitely something to consider,’ she laughs. ‘It would absolutely send a message.’ Just to be clear, … Read more