Natalie Pinkham

Natalie Pinkham
Moscow 23 February 2013
Born	Natalie Jane Pinkham (1978-09-20) 20 September 1978 (age 38) Buckinghamshire, UK
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Rugby School University of Nottingham
Occupation	Television presenter
Spouse(s)	Owain Walbyoff (m. 2012)
Children	2
Parent(s)	John and Joy Pinkham
Website	nataliepinkham.com

Natalie Jane Pinkham (born 20 September 1978) is a British television presenter and Formula One pit lane reporter for Sky Sports F1, having held the same post for BBC Radio 5 Live in 2011. She is also known for hosting Police Interceptors Special Edition on 5*. She appeared on Live from Studio Five as a guest presenter, and is a regular panellist on The Wright Stuff.

Pinkham has also fronted two documentaries, The Lost Orphan: In Search of Mirela (in which she retraced her steps in Romania from a decade earlier to find a child she used to look after as a volunteer) and then three years later The Lost Orphan: A Home For Mirela (which followed Natalie as she raised the funds to build a specially adapted home for Mirela and 11 other severely disabled children; after discovering Mirela tied to a radiator and profoundly damaged from years in a state run institution.)

Pinkham was born in Buckinghamshire to barrister mother Joy, and property developer John, Her parents presently live in Northampton. Natalie and her older DJ brother Sam, who presents the breakfast show for Gem 106 in East Midlands, were raised at the family home in Northants. Pinkham was educated at Queenswood boarding school with fellow presenter and friend Georgie Thompson; and then as a day girl at Rugby School, before studying politics at the University of Nottingham. A capable 800m runner, she gave up the event to study at university.

After graduation, she joined Endemol as a researcher on BBC Two's Ready Steady Cook, and then as an assistant producer on International King of Sports. She then worked for IMG/TWI as an assistant producer on Superstars.