Jodie Kidd

Why organisations work with Jodie Kidd

• A recognisable on-camera presenter with two decades of live broadcast experience, including Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show and ITV’s coverage of the Isle of Man TT, equally at home with a live audience and a camera.
• Genuine credibility in automotive, motorsport and lifestyle briefs: a former Maserati Trofeo Series driver, Mille Miglia competitor, and Top Gear “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” series leader.
• An operating entrepreneur, not a name on a brand. Owner since 2017 of The Half Moon in Kirdford, an AA 2-Rosette gastropub featured at Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park; co-owner of beauty brand Skin & Tonic.
• A reinvention story with substance behind it: Vogue covers and the McQueen debut runway, then a Maserati seat, then a working pub through the post-pandemic hospitality squeeze. Useful when a brief calls for a panel voice on backing yourself outside a single career lane.
• Polished, warm, unflappable on stage. The kind of host clients rebook for the second year because the first one ran on time.

Biography highlights

• International fashion model from age 15. Vogue covers, opened for John Galliano, walked Givenchy and Alexander McQueen’s debut runway show.
• Maserati Trofeo Series racing driver. Competed in the Mille Miglia for Jaguar.
• Top Gear “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car”: topped the leader board across an entire series, becoming a long-running Top Gear reference point.
• Co-presenter, Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show, and ITV’s coverage of the Isle of Man TT.
• Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One, 2008) and Celebrity MasterChef finalist.
• Owner since 2017 of The Half Moon, Kirdford, a Grade II listed gastropub holding AA 2 Rosettes four years running and featured at Pub in the Park from 2019 to 2022.
• Author of Balance Your Life (2019); co-owner of beauty brand Skin & Tonic; host of YouTube automotive channel Kidd in a Sweet Shop.

Biography

Television careers built on a single specialism are easier to write about than ones built across several. Jodie Kidd has covered fashion, motorsport, lifestyle and food on BBC, ITV and Channel 5 over more than two decades, and the through-line is the live work: a host who can carry an awards room, a paddock interview, a cookery final or a panel on hospitality.

The starting point was modelling. Discovered at 15, she was on the cover of British Vogue at 17, opened shows for John Galliano and walked Alexander McQueen’s debut runway. The pivot into broadcast came through cars. She raced in the Maserati Trofeo Series, competed in the Mille Miglia for Jaguar, and topped the Top Gear leader board for an entire series, which translated into long-running automotive presenting on Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show and ITV’s Isle of Man TT coverage.

In 2017 she took on The Half Moon in Kirdford with two business partners, learning the gastropub business from the kitchen out. The pub holds AA 2 Rosettes four years running and has appeared at Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park. She co-owns the beauty brand Skin & Tonic and wrote Balance Your Life, a six-week diet and exercise book published in 2019.

For event organisers, the value is straightforward. A senior buyer hiring Kidd is hiring an experienced live broadcaster with genuine subject footing in automotive, lifestyle and small-business hospitality, and a calm hand on a long evening. She works as host, awards presenter, panel moderator and panellist, and as a speaker on her own reinvention across fashion, motorsport and entrepreneurship.

Key speaking topics

• Awards hosting and event presenting
• Panel moderation
• Automotive, motorsport and the classic car world
• Hospitality and independent pub ownership
• Entrepreneurship and brand-building outside a primary career
• Reinvention across industries
• Health, wellbeing and lifestyle

Ideal for

• Brand and consumer events in automotive, lifestyle, fashion and hospitality
• Industry awards evenings looking for a recognisable, experienced live host
• Conference panels on entrepreneurship, small-business hospitality, or career reinvention
• Internal leadership or sales conferences wanting an after-dinner speaker with a broad public profile

Audience outcomes

• A live event that runs on time, with an audience that stays in the room
• Panel conversations that draw out senior speakers without drifting
• A first-hand account of building and running a working hospitality business through a difficult market
• A frank reinvention story across modelling, motorsport, broadcasting and small business
• For automotive and motorsport audiences, an interviewer who knows the subject