Laura Whitmore
Internal events live or die on the person holding the room. A clumsy host turns a strong agenda into a long afternoon, and a confident one carries a weak agenda through. The harder problem: finding someone who can move from a panel on AI to a Q&A on wellbeing without losing the audience or the brief.
Laura Whitmore is an Irish broadcaster, journalist and documentary-maker who hosts corporate events, panels and awards with the confidence of someone who has fronted live primetime television and the journalistic instinct to push a conversation when it matters.
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Why organisations work with Laura Whitmore
- Live-television fluency. Six years fronting Love Island, plus stints on I’m a Celebrity NOW!, This Morning and Celebrity Juice, mean she handles unscripted moments, audience energy and tight cues without visible effort.
- Journalistic credibility on the topics organisations now have to host. She wrote, presented and associate-produced Laura Whitmore Investigates for ITVX, covering incel culture, rough sex and cyber-stalking in detail.
- A second register beyond entertainment hosting. The Laura Whitmore Show on BBC Radio 5 Live and her current BBC podcast Murder They Wrote demonstrate she can hold a long-form, substantive conversation, not only a stage handover.
- Public record on women’s safety and online harm. Her 2018 Huffington Post piece on upskirting and the #MeToo campaign was shared globally, and she went on to support the UK upskirting bill on national television.
- Range across formats. West End theatre (2:22 A Ghost Story), national radio, ITV documentary and primetime ITV2 hosting; clients booking her for an awards night, an internal town hall and a panel get the same person.
Biography highlights
- Host of ITV2’s Love Island, series 6 to 8 (2020 to 2022).
- Presenter and associate producer of Laura Whitmore Investigates, ITVX, 2023.
- Former presenter of The Laura Whitmore Show on BBC Radio 5 Live.
- West End debut as Jenny in 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Criterion Theatre, 2022 to 2023.
- Spent seven years at MTV Europe after winning the network’s Pick Me MTV contest in 2008.
- Author of No One Can Change Your Life Except For You; viral 2018 Huffington Post piece on upskirting and the #MeToo movement.
Biography
A live audience reads a host within thirty seconds. Whitmore has stood in front of one almost every working week since 2008, first at MTV Europe, then on ITV’s Love Island, I’m a Celebrity NOW! and Celebrity Juice. The bookable quality is composure on a live mic, not screen credits.
Her journalism degree from Dublin City University is doing more work than is typical for a presenter of her profile. She wrote, fronted and associate-produced Laura Whitmore Investigates for ITVX in 2023, a three-part documentary series on incel culture, rough sex and cyber-stalking. The series ran on the back of reported cases of cyber-stalking rising 300 per cent, and she sought therapeutic support during production. That work is a usable credential when a brief asks for serious handling of online harm or violence against women.
She has carried similar substance into other formats. The Laura Whitmore Show on BBC Radio 5 Live demonstrated long-form interview range; her 2018 Huffington Post article on upskirting and the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns was shared widely and she publicly supported the UK upskirting legislation on Lorraine. Her current BBC podcast with Iain Stirling, Murder They Wrote, sits in a similar register.
The West End run of 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Criterion Theatre placed her on a stage with a different kind of audience for four months in late 2022. Buyers booking her for an awards night, a women’s network event or a moderated panel on online safety are buying the same person across each of those formats.
Key speaking topics
- Hosting and event moderation
- Awards ceremony presenting
- Panel facilitation
- Women’s safety and online harm
- Mental health in public life
- Media, journalism and broadcasting
- Live event presenting and emcee work
Ideal for
- Internal conferences, town halls and awards nights needing a confident broadcast host
- Women’s network events, IWD programmes and gender-equity panels
- Wellbeing, mental health and employee-engagement events where a credible non-clinical voice is needed
- Brand activations and media-industry events where on-camera fluency matters
Audience outcomes
- An event held together by a host who reads the room and lands the cues
- Panel conversations that move, with follow-up questions that come from journalism, not a running order
- Sensitive topics, including online harm and mental health, handled without slipping into either tabloid or training-video tone
- Audience attention sustained through the dips of a long agenda