Helen Skelton

Acting

Helen Skelton

Born

1983-07-19 (43)

Place of birth

Carlisle, Cumbria, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Helen’s career started when she became one of the youngest breakfast presenters on BBC Radio Network at the age of 22, going on to present Newsround for CBBC. One of Helen’s longest standing roles was as presenter for the flagship children’s series, Blue Peter. Helen has become a beloved face of the BBC having worked on two Olympics in London 2012 and Rio 2016 as well as presenting the World, Commonwealth and European swimming competitions for the channel. Helen’s love of the great outdoors has been put to good use, being part of the Countryfile presenting team since 2012. In 2013 Helen was able to feed her love for travel by co-presenting BBC 1’s Holiday Hit Squad. Most recently, Helen…

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

The One Show poster
4.3

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

The One Show

2006

The One Show poster
4.3

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

The One Show

2006

Strictly Come Dancing poster
6.1

A dance competition where celebrities compete to be crowned the winner. Who is kicked out of the competition each week is decided by the judges scores and viewer votes. Are today's celebrities fleet of foot or do they have two left feet?

Strictly Come Dancing

2004

Blue Peter poster
7.5

A fun-packed and informative magazine show for younger viewers with information and reports from around the world.

Blue Peter

1958

Countryfile poster
5.4

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

Countryfile

1988

Countryfile poster
5.4

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

Countryfile

1988

Never Mind the Buzzcocks poster
7.1

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996

House of Games poster
6.1

Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.

House of Games

2017

Pointless Celebrities poster
6.3

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.

Pointless Celebrities

2011

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip poster
6.0

Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

A League of Their Own poster
7.1

Two teams comprised of comedians, celebrities and sports stars compete against each other in a test of their sporting knowledge, taking place over three rounds.

A League of Their Own

2010

Celebrity Mastermind poster
6.0

Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.

Celebrity Mastermind

2003

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins poster
6.3

Celebrities who think they have what it takes to pass the SAS selection are pushed to their limit, and beyond, by an elite team of ex-special forces operators.

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins

2019

Chris Moyles' Quiz Night poster
5.3

Chris Moyles' Quiz Night is a British television comedy panel game show, presented by Chris Moyles. The show was originally shown on Channel 4 at 10 p.m. on Sundays and repeated on Mondays at 11 p.m. It included three rounds in which he took on three celebrity contestants in a quiz where the prize was an item from his own home. As he was also competing, the questions were asked by a celebrity quiz master. The series has an all-female house band present in the studio who played the title music.

Chris Moyles' Quiz Night

2009

Robson Green's Weekend Escapes poster
6.3

Relax, reset and recharge. Robson takes the roads less travelled across his beloved North East England. With friends and family, he finds wellbeing and adventure in wonderful places.

Robson Green's Weekend Escapes

2023

SMart poster
8.5

SMart is a British CBBC television programme based on the subject of art, which began in 1994 and ended in 2009. The programme was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London, previously it had been recorded in Studio A at BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham. The format is similar to the Tony Hart programmes Take Hart and Hartbeat. The show was revamped into an hour-long show in 2007; it was previously a 25 minute show. The 'older' 25 minute shows from 1994-2005 also featured Morph, originally from Take Hart. It has 199 episodes.

SMart

1994

Let's Dance for Comic Relief poster
6.7

Celebrities perform famous dance routines in front of a panel of judges to raise money for the Comic Relief appeal, with viewers voting for their favourites.

Let's Dance for Comic Relief

2009

Country Tracks poster
NR

Series celebrating the British countryside.

Country Tracks

2009

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off poster
NR

Well-known faces don their aprons in this charity special. Who has got what it takes to go all the way and compete for the Great Sport Relief Bake Off crown?

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off

2012

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NR

Sportsround was a weekly spin-off from CBBC children's news programme Newsround. The sports magazine show was broadcast Friday evenings at 6:30pm on CBBC Channel and on Saturday mornings on BBC Two at 7.25am. Sportsround was the only sports television show in the UK that was specifically aimed at children. First broadcast in 2005, Sportsround was a well-known children's show - regularly having big names on the show, including David Beckham, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Frank Lampard. The final episode aired on 11 December 2010. It was replaced by a new sports show, Match of the Day Kickabout, which airs in Sportsround's original BBC Two slot on Saturday mornings.

Sportsround

2005

Walks with My Dog poster
NR

Celebrities take a stroll in the great British outdoors with their faithful hound.

Walks with My Dog

2017

Hacker Time poster
5.0

Hacker Time is a British children's television show on CBBC starring Hacker T. Dog with one or more famous celebrities such as Anton du Beke and Dani Harmer. The show follows the same theme of Hacker tricking the celebrity/s into his studio, interviewing them, and then watching sketches and outtakes from other programmes. Each episode is approximately 30 minutes long. The theme song and ending songs are sung by Phil Fletcher who is Hacker T. Dog's puppeteer and voice actor.

Hacker Time

2011

Lost and Found in the Lakes poster
6.0

Helen Skelton leads a team of experts in search of precious items lost by members of the public in the Lake District.

Lost and Found in the Lakes

2025

Our Coast poster
NR

Adrian Chiles, Mehreen Baig and a team of experts explore the spectacular coastlines linked by the Irish Sea, and meet the people who call them home.

Our Coast

2020

Springtime on the Farm poster
7.0

Documentary series celebrating British farms. Peter Wright, Adam Henson and Lindsey Chapman reveal what happens at Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley during the busiest time of year - Spring.

Springtime on the Farm

2018

LIVE: Summer on the Farm poster
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Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson host a week of live programmes from Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire, run by brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson.

LIVE: Summer on the Farm

2021

Winter on the Farm poster
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Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson are live from Cannon Hall farm in South Yorkshire as the UK prepares for winter and Christmas.

Winter on the Farm

2021

Inside the Superbrands poster
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Helen Skelton uncovers the inside secrets of some of Britain's most popular brands and explores the lengths they go to keep their rivals at bay and win over shoppers.

Inside the Superbrands

2022

Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen poster
7.5

Dan Walker and Helen Skelton explore the awe-inspiring beauty of 'God's own country'.

Yorkshire Great and Small with Dan and Helen

2024

Coastal Adventures with Helen, Jules & JB poster
7.0

Helen Skelton, JB Gill and Jules Hudson take the ultimate coastal adventure in the UK.

Coastal Adventures with Helen, Jules & JB

2025

Harvest on the Farm poster
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Following the harvest tasks and festivities at Barleylands Farm in Essex with Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson.

Harvest on the Farm

2023

Helen's Polar Challenge for Sport Relief poster
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Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton makes an epic 500-mile journey to the South Pole by kite, by ski and - in a world first - by bike, to raise awareness for Sport Relief.

Helen's Polar Challenge for Sport Relief

2012

Dan & Helen's Pennine Adventure poster
6.0

Dan Walker and Helen Skelton travel the Pennine mountains: the 'backbone of Britain'.

Dan & Helen's Pennine Adventure

2023