Quotes from Vick Hope

When in doubt about what to watch, I tend to opt for guaranteed, certified lols.

When you can't get out to buy specific ingredients, whipping up your own curry paste or harissa paste is super satisfying, using all those powdered spices that often sit at the back of the cupboard.

I was working as a print journalist before I gave broadcasting a go, and spent years behind the camera in production while building up on-screen credits, but I know so many others with totally different experiences.

Together, we can put pressure on our employers to do better, to represent the rich diversity of the audience they serve, to stop painting women as sidekicks, as appendages or accessories to men.

I hadn't heard about the real-life case behind 'Bombshell' before, but the scandal sadly felt very familiar. It's great that the movie brought the specifics of this situation to light and reignited the conversation around the MeToo movement.

I'm like a magpie and am drawn to anything shiny, sparkly or bright and you really get that with Ted Baker.

Of course, who you are and what's inside your head is more important than how you look, but that isn't going to be nurtured properly if you don't feel comfortable in your own skin.

Exploring my racial identity, my blackness and my whiteness as living, breathing, moving parts; confronting race as an issue head-on, learning about it, talking about it, celebrating the beauty of my cultures, being honest about the ugly parts of our history, and consolidating my sense of self has been liberating in so many ways.

A lot of conversations happened during Obama's election that opened my eyes and made me really excited. He provided hope at a time when the country was grappling with its racial history, and we still need that hope.

I don't think that we should be trying to forge love online. I think that we should get it offline.

There are so many shows I've had such grand intentions of devouring but not found the time, or not given them a chance if I wasn't hooked quickly enough, despite rave reviews.

There is a level of confidence you need before the day comes when you realise that what makes you different is really the greatest thing.

In this industry, you're trying to make something of yourself, trying to build something, you want to do a good job - so I did every job under the sun, I did the graveyard shifts.

When I was growing up all I ever wanted was straight hair as you want to be the same as everyone else but then last summer a hairdresser friend said, 'let's stop straightening this and keep it curly,' and I've never looked back.

I guess you could say my beauty routine is to do fun stuff with great people, laugh lots, work hard and be kind: because when I'm stimulated, invigorated and exhilarated, that's when I feel beautiful.

I have completely tired myself out before - but I think that's natural, we all find it difficult to find balance. It's something I'm a great advocate of now, because I've had to learn the hard way, but I think 2018 was the year I burnt the candle way too brightly at both ends.

Having been labelled at school and in the workplace as 'sassy,' 'feisty,' 'aggressive,' 'hard' and 'dramatic,' I started to believe these stereotypes. I self-stereotyped and became sure I would eventually become 'too much' for whoever I was with.

I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the children come from different countries and speak different languages. It's difficult to find things they can all connect and interact with that are non-verbal. Sport is it.

I did some modelling when I was 16 and was told I was a 'palatable kind of brown.' That hit me quite hard. You're not brought up to think it's good to be different and the fashion industry has a responsibility to not reinforce that impression.

As I grow older, it's getting more and more important to me. I'm becoming conscious and learning to celebrate where I'm from and my roots. I think I rejected it to an extent when I was young, because it was different, and you want to fit in and look like other kids.

TV, for me, is all about relaxation and drawing a line under the day.

Music for me was a release, an escapism and it was really exciting.

I'd always been fairly sporty. At school I got involved in everything: netball, hockey, cross-country, athletics and I competed in the north east championships. I did a lot of gymnastics when I was younger and then got into my dancing.

I broke my leg playing football and cycled to the hospital.