Jordan Banjo

Why organisations work with Jordan Banjo

• A live broadcaster’s instinct for pace, autocue, links and crowd energy, built across Got to Dance, The Greatest Dancer, Dancing On Ice and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards
• Five years of daily live radio hosting on KISS Breakfast, the discipline that translates most directly into running a long awards show without the room flagging
• Recognition that travels across audiences from boardrooms to family-facing events, anchored to Diversity’s 2009 Britain’s Got Talent win and a continuous national TV presence since
• A second register beyond hosting: a personal arc through Diversity, family, weight loss and a current move into competitive boxing with DAZN, available where a brief calls for motivational content rather than presenting

Biography highlights

• Founding member of Diversity, winners of Britain’s Got Talent series 3 (2009)
• Co-host of KISS Breakfast with Perri Kiely, 2020 to January 2026
• TV credits include Got to Dance, The Greatest Dancer, Dancing On Ice digital, Eat Well For Less, and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards UK
• Runner-up on I’m a Celebrity: South Africa All-Stars (2023); previously a series 16 contestant (2016)
• On-screen presenter for DAZN boxing coverage
• Co-author with Ashley Banjo of the children’s books Fly High Crew and The Day We Saved The Future

Biography

Diversity walked onto Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 as an unknown street dance group from Essex and walked off as the winners of the series. Jordan Banjo, then sixteen, was the youngest on stage. The group has remained a fixture of British popular culture ever since, and Banjo has built the broadest broadcasting career of any of its original members.

Most of that career has been live. Got to Dance on Sky, The Greatest Dancer on BBC One, Dancing On Ice digital for ITV, Eat Well For Less, and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards UK have all required the same skill: keep a room or a camera on rhythm without losing the audience. Five years of daily breakfast radio on KISS, alongside Perri Kiely, sharpened it further.

For corporate buyers, the value is straightforward. A host with this volume of live-television and live-radio reps does not freeze on a long running order, does not over-talk a sponsor read, and does not let an awards show drift in the second hour. The face is recognisable to a broad audience, which matters when the brief includes family events, consumer-facing brand moments or all-staff celebrations rather than narrow C-suite rooms.

Where a brief asks for content rather than hosting, Banjo can speak from his own arc: the discipline of a winning team rebuilt year after year, public weight loss, family, fatherhood, and a current move into the boxing ring with DAZN, following his father Funso Banjo, a former professional fighter.

Key speaking topics

• Awards and conference hosting
• Live event presenting
• Team performance, drawn from Diversity
• Personal motivation and reinvention
• Family, fitness and boxing
• Brand and audience engagement on camera

Ideal for

• Internal all-staff conferences and end-of-year celebrations needing a recognisable host
• Awards nights and gala dinners requiring a broadcast-trained presenter
• Consumer brand events targeting family and mainstream UK audiences
• Sponsorship activations and product launches with on-camera elements

Audience outcomes

• A live event run at television pace, with cleaner cues and tighter links
• Higher audience energy across long-form running orders, particularly in the second half
• A recognisable on-stage face that broadens the room beyond a purely corporate audience
• Where booked as content, a personal story of team success, public scrutiny and physical reinvention