Beverley Turner

Beverley Turner (born 21 October 1973) is an English television and radio presenter.

Early life

Turner was born in Prestwich, Lancashire. She has a first class degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Manchester. She is the sister of Olympic swimmer Adrian Turner and of the executive producer of ''The Apprentice'', Cal Turner.

Career

Turner worked for BBC Radio 5 Live, presenting their Bump Club series, following a group of pregnant women through their journey to motherhood. Previously, she spent three years as one of only two female presenters for ITV's Formula One coverage and also presented coverage of the Tour de France. She broke with Formula One racing coverage with a "bridge burning exercise" in the form of her book, ''The Pits: The Real World of Formula 1'' in July 2004, which described widespread sexism in the sport. She spent another three seasons presenting coverage of US National Basketball Association games in the UK. In 2002 she began presenting entertainment sections for Granada's '' This Morning'' and, in 2003, travel reporting for the Travel Channel.

She was the sole presenter of sixty-four episodes of ''Taste'', a cooking programme for Sky1 which was shown daily for six years across global Sky Channels and became one of the station's most profitable self-made shows. She co-presented ''Homes Live'' with ''Watchdog''s Matt Allwright, a daily, live property show on BBC Two.

Turner hosted her own talk show on the radio station LBC from 2015 to 2019, and at the time of her departure was one of two female presenters at the station. She left the station in January 2019 after complaining that the station predominantly employed white men; LBC reported that her contract had expired and was not renewed.

From November 2022, Turner began hosting her own weekday show on GB News, titled ''Bev Turner Today''. She had previously been a stand-in presenter on the channel.

She has written for newspapers ''The Independent'', ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the '' Daily Mail''.

Controversies

On 1 June 2021, Turner clashed with Dermot O'Leary on '' This Morning'' over the issue of COVID-19 vaccines, when she said that it was not effective and urged younger people to refuse the vaccine when offered it. She went on to claim: "It does not stop you catching or passing on the virus." Following this, she was banned from appearing on the programme. Controversy continued later on ''Jeremy Vine'', which caused the Ofcom to receive hundreds of complaints. She later shared a video of herself crying, claiming she had been "ambushed." On November of the same year she appeared again on the Jeremy Vine programme, in which she clashed with Owen Jones when she compared Austria's lockdown rules for the non-vaccinated to Apartheid.

On 7 February 2022, in the hours after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was encircled by protesters yelling "traitor", with references to Jimmy Savile, amongst other things, Turner tweeted to suggest that Sir Keir Starmer was complicit in the incident and that the event was staged. Turner tweeted: "I'm not at all convinced this is a genuine 'ambush.' It perfectly casts Johnson as a Trumpian agitator. (I'm not condoning his Savile comment. It was stupid). But Starmer does not look scared. Yelling about 'Freemasons' was brainstormed in a board room! Why walk so far?! Staged."

In July 2022, amidst the 2022 United Kingdom heat wave, in a conversation with BBC
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