Reshmin Chowdhury

Reshmin Chowdhury (Bengali: রেশমিন চৌধুরী; born 16 December 1977) is an English sports journalist and broadcaster who works for BT Sport, Talksport and the BBC. She presents live Premier League football on Talksport “GameDay” every Saturday morning and works across all football coverage, including UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, FA Women’s Super League and the FA Cup.

Reshmin Chowdhury
রেশমিন চৌধুরী
Born (1977-12-16) 16 December 1977
London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationBSc Politics with Economics, NCTJ Newspaper Journalism
Alma materWoodford County High School for Girls
University of Bath
OccupationSports journalist, broadcaster, singer
Years active2000–present
EmployerBBC, BT Sport, Talksport.

Early life

Chowdhury was born and brought up in London, England and is of Bangladeshi origin.[1][2] Chowdhury described her childhood as growing up "in an extremely open-minded, progressive Bengali Muslim family and within a huge second-generation community where education, culture, religion and music were the cornerstones of my upbringing."[3]

Chowdhury attended Woodford County High School for Girls. In 2000, she graduated with a 2.1 BSc (Hons) in Politics with Economics from the University of Bath. In 2003, she studied for an NCTJ Post-Graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at Harlow College.

Broadcasting career

Chowdhury spent her university placement year as a TV News Helpdesk Operator at Reuters TV News. Early roles included travelling to Borneo for the ITV1 programme Survivor, UK Editor of global online events guide whatsonwhen.com and a year producing specialist business reports for various international print media. Her work took her to Madagascar, Dubai, Greece, South Africa, Maldives and Nigeria.[1][2]

In 2005, Chowdhury moved to television news and joined ITN as a news assistant and producer on the main news bulletins, before producing digital and online news, sport and entertainment reports for ITN ON. She was a producer and had a few stints as weekend reporter with BBC London before moving to BBC News and Bloomberg Television.[1][2]

From September 2008, she spent two seasons as a presenter and reporter with Real Madrid TV.[1] She was the first journalist to interview Cristiano Ronaldo following his then world-record signing for Real Madrid. She also secured the world exclusive with Karim Benzema whom she interviewed in French.

Chowdhury has been part of the BBC Sport News team in London since May 2010. She worked on multiple projects and broadcasts as a sports presenter for the BBC News Channel in the UK and BBC World. Her credits include: Match of the Day 2 - Stand-in Presenter; 2018 FIFA World Cup – Salford Studio Presenter; 2018 Wimbledon Championships – Reporter; The Women's Football Show – Presenter; 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup – Final Presenter; FA Cup – Reporter; Football Focus – Reporter; 2016 Summer Paralympics – Reporter (BBC Radio 5 Live); London 2012 Olympics – Presenter (BBC World).

In August 2014, Chowdhury joined the BT Sport team as presenter of their nightly news round-up show SportsHUB.[4]

In August 2015, Chowdhury was on the judging panel for The Independent's 50 most influential women in sport.[4]

Since September 2015, she has been a lead reporter on BT Sport's exclusive coverage of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, covering live matches on site, conducting pitchside chats and pre and post-match interviews in multiple languages. She also reported on the BDO World Darts Championship from Lakeside for three years.

Chowdhury presented a daily show during the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Yahoo Sports in the UK.

In September 2018, she was a presenter on the green carpet at The Best FIFA Football Awards.

In August 2019, Chowdhury became the lead Presenter of the newly launched “GameDay Exclusive” every Saturday, hosting live Premier League football across the Talksport network.

In August 2020 she co-presented the UEFA Champions League Group stage Draw in Monaco to a global audience for the fourth year running. She also presented the draw in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[5]

In December 2020, she co-presented The Best FIFA Football Awards 2020, alongside Ruud Gullit.[6]

Singing career

Chowdhury spent much of her extra-curricular time as a vocalist. She has worked alongside musician Nitin Sawhney. She was the lead singer in the UK touring theatre production of The Mahabharata and recorded vocals on the 2006 film The Namesake.[1][2]

Awards and nominations

In November 2013, Chowdhury was nominated for the Media Award sponsored by FC Business Magazine at the Asian Football Awards.[7] In November 2015, she won the Media Award at the Asian Football Awards.[8][9][10]

Personal life

Chowdhury is a Muslim[3] and lives in London. She has two children and is a Tottenham Hotspur Football Club fan. She is fluent in Bengali and also speaks conversational Spanish and French.[1][2]

See also

References
  1. "Reshmin Chowdhury". Activate Management. n.d. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  2. "BBC and BT Sport Presenter Reshmin Chowdhury". Asian Voice. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  3. "Women's Sport Week: Meet the 'kick-ass' Muslim sporting pioneers". BBC Sport. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  4. "The 50 most influential women in sport: The job of navigating the nominations goes to..." The Independent. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  5. "Bangladeshi origin journo hosts UCL draw". Dhaka Tribune. Dhaka. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  6. "AIPS Media". www.aipsmedia.com. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  7. "Asian Football Awards 2013 – Launch Reception". Bigday Photography. n.d. Retrieved 1 March 2014. Reshmin Chowdhury
  8. "Asian Football Awards winners announced at Wembley". Asian Image. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  9. Ganatra, Rupen (20 November 2015). "The Asian Football Awards 2015 Winners". DESIblitz. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  10. "Asian Football Awards winners announced at Wembley". Telegraph & Argus. Bradford. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
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