Beverley Turner (born 21 October 1973 in Prestwich, Bury, Lancashire) is a British television and radio presenter.

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Personal

She is the sister of swimming champion Adrian Turner, and the wife of Olympic rower James Cracknell with whom she has a son, Croyde, born in October 2003, and a daughter, Kiki, born in March 2009[[1]]. She has a first class degree in English from the University of Manchester.

Television presenter

She is probably best known for her presenting on UK TV and Radio. These are primarily sports shows, although she has diversified into lifestyle shows as her career has progressed. She spent three years as one of the female presenters for UK ITV's Formula One, the other being Louise Goodman, and she also presented Tour de France. She spent another three seasons as the presenter of the US National Basketball Association in the UK, but also included entertainment presentation for Granada’s This Morning in 2002, and travel reporting for the Travel Channel in 2003.

From 2004 she spent two years co-presenting, with Eamonn Holmes, a Saturday morning radio program on BBC Radio Five Live, and also presented 64 episodes of Taste, a daily food programme on Sky3. Her other jobs include journalism, writing, and modelling - where she stands at five foot 10 inches.[2]

She broke with Formula One racing coverage with the July 2004 publication of her book 'The Pits: The Real World of Formula 1' (ISBN 1-84354-237-4).

She also writes for newspapers including The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail.

She has also presented Sky1 food magazine show 'Taste'.

Other interests

Her main charity interest is in sexual health and sexual politics, where she is a noted patron of the FPA (Family Planning Association).

She has been a competitive swimmer and achieved a first class honours degree at Manchester University in English Literature/Language.

She is a former model with London's Elite Premier agency. She was in the FHM sexiest women list at 43 in 2001 and 88 in 2002.