Helen Skelton

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In that same year, she returned to cover swimming on the BBC during the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. In early 2016, she presented Tonight: Kids V Career and has also hosted coverage of the 2016 European Swimming Championships with Mark Foster and Rebecca Adlington. In a challenge for the series, Helen took an uncredited role in the BBC production of Merlin. She was then replaced by Ore Oduba in 2016. [Richie Myler](/topic/richie-myler), who plays a scrum-half and fullback for the Leeds Rhinos. She currently hosts a weekly slot on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sundays from 3pm to 6pm and stands in as a temporary co-host on BBC Radio 5 Live Drive Time with Tony Livesey. From Blue Peter to Countryfile - what is her career journey to date? She became a presenter on Blue Peter in August 2008, where she replaced Zoe Salmon and became the 33rd presenter for the programme. [Helen chose to focus](https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/13/who-is-helen-skelton-as-she-joins-strictly-come-dancing-line-up-17177640/) her career in journalism; she worked in the newsroom at CFM Radio and participated in various programmes at Border Television, before she became a breakfast presenter on BBC Radio Cumbria in 2005, where she was one of the youngest breakfast slot presenters on the BBC network at the time. She took part in an uncredited role in the BBC production of Merlin and announced her departure from the show in August 2013 and was subsequently replaced by Radzi Chinyanganya. In December 2012, Helen participated in a Christmas Special edition of Strictly Come Dancing and since 2015, she has also co-presented daytime BBC One series The Instant Gardener alongside Danny Clarke. Helen was born in Carlisle, Cumbria, where she was raised on a dairy farm in the village of Kirkby Thore.