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Charlene White Author

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster, Charlene White is an ITV News presenter, a BAFTA-nominated and Royal Television Society-winning Loose Women host and a pioneer at the forefront of news broadcasting.

Charlene is a columnist for the i paper, has previously worked as a writer for the New York Post, and presented for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, BBC News Channel, BBC Five Live and BBC Three. She co-hosted, alongside Sir Trevor McDonald, the notable documentary Has George Floyd Changed Britain?, exploring the impact George Floyd's death had on people living in the UK, and hosted her own primetime ITV documentary, Empire's Child, looking at where her family sits in the British Empire. Charlene took part in the twenty-second series of I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! and embarked on the Loose Women Live regional tour.

Charlene uses her platform to educate children about race and racism, mentor aspiring journalists and work alongside various organisations to achieve better representation of women and minorities in the industry, winning a Royal Television Society award for Best Children's programme explaining racism and Black Lives Matter to children. No Place Like Home is Charlene's debut work of non-fiction.