Quotes from Vick Hope

Travel taught me to date differently. I was more respectful of myself. It made me date differently.

I use skincare by REN mainly. Twice a day double cleanse, serum, moisturiser, and a lovely Mimi Luzon facial oil packed with vitamins and Fenty Beauty night cream before bed.

Nobody told me that you needed to learn to be alone to enjoy to love your own company - to find peace and to be yourself.

I want little black girls, little black boys to know that they can be themselves because they do belong for who that they are.

Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life mainly in the U.K. It's so beautiful, perceptive and insightful, giving us so much to think about and changing the way we see the world and the experiences of others.

I have to get up about half four every morning for the 'Breakfast' show.

It feels dismissive to suggest relationships can ever be truly colourblind. And more importantly, I don't believe they ever should be. To not see colour or race would be to ignore racism rather than combating it.

Being ambitious, driven, and passionate can sometimes come at a cost and warp our sense of perspective: when we constantly work and strive to be better, we can find ourselves dwelling on mistakes of the past or putting pressure on what we'll do in the future, rather than living in the present.

I did not feel beautiful. I didn't know anyone who looked like me. I remember asking my mum to wash the brown off me in the bath.

When I was younger, Brits night was a big night and I cared deeply who was going to win the awards, who was going to perform. I used to listen on the radio and used to have all the nominations written down in my look book and write who won each one. I really, really cared.

I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

I used to do people's online dating for them. I had clients in San Francisco, L.A., New York and they'd pay me $800 a month to basically make them profiles on all the best websites for the demographics for them.

Even at weddings, I'm quite often put on the children's table, even though I'm very much a full adult.

Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram.

Of all the people I've ever met that I got a bit tongue-tied around was Chris Moyles. And it was just down the corridor at Radio X. I grew up listening to him, in the car on the way to school, and that voice, you feel like you wake up with him.

Malorie Blackman's 'Noughts & Crosses' was my favourite as a kid - it was the first time I'd heard of interracial courtship outside of my family.

You never know when the tables will turn, so I think we should all just be kind to one another. It's really as simple as that.

I love a freshly tailored white shirt, dungarees and cute loafers, like Prince George.

Taking risks doesn't mean shirking responsibility, but embracing possibilities.

The idea of what forms your identity and whether you fit in as one thing or another is something that we all think about, and something that's definitely been a preoccupation of mine.

During a university gap year in Argentina I got a job presenting for MTV, and in my final year I was doing bits and pieces for them in London and at ITN. Then, when I graduated, MTV asked if I wanted to be a runner. I said: 'Absolutely!'

There is no prescribed route into presenting.

It was called 'The Surgery' at the time, but the 'Life Hacks' show was a very important place for me when I was growing up. I remember so many things that I didn't know how to talk to my teachers or my parents about; those hard questions that I had, they were answered on that show.

It sounds like I literally stand outside of the offices of ITV shouting, 'Give me another spin-off.' But I do love them, I love getting the gossip, I'm a chatty head. With all of those shows, it feels like I'm watching TV and then having a WhatsApp group discussion with my mates. Analysing why people have done X-Y-Z.