James Haskell

James is one of the most well-known rugby players in the country, having racked up 77 international caps, as well as playing all around the world for the British and Irish Lions. Having retired in 2019 James is pursuing a career as a Podcaster, Presenter, and professional DJ. Alongside these, he spends a large amount of his time speaking on several topics from straight after dinner work, to serious motivation and leadership. James has transcended just being a rugby player. James is also a Sunday Times Bestselling Author for his smash hit autobiography “What A Flanker”. He has also published some best-selling fitness and nutrition books Perfect Fit, Cooking for Fitness and Rugby Fit.

Sophia Franklin

Sophia is confident, fun, and quick-witted presenter, voice over artist, broadcast journalist and producer, obsessed with music, news, politics, good outfits, showbiz, food, wine, and podcasts. Sophia is the Monday news presenter on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky, producer, and presenter of the Times Daily World Briefing, and freelance as a newsreader for talkSPORT, talkRADIO and Times Radio. She is also passionate about music, and this has led her to interview a huge number of names. Her career has given her the knowledge, the experience, and the scope to make great conversation at CarFest this summer!

Humza Arshad

Humza Arshad MBE is an actor, comedian, and writer. Famous for the web series ‘Diary of a Badman’ and ‘Badman’, his YouTube videos have raked up over 100 million views, making him one of the most popular comedians in the UK. More recently, Humza, along with comedy writer, Henry White, has created the ‘Little Badman’ series of novels, which follow 11-year-old rapper Humza Khan. The three already published books have been highly celebrated, with Penguin Random House buying the series in 2018. The next book, ‘Little Badman and the Rise of the Punjabi Zombies’ is to be released in July and will be a hot topic of discussion when Humza comes to visit us at CarFest.

Nina Warhurst

Nina is an English journalist, newsreader, TV presenter and actress. A regular face on BBC Breakfast since 2018, Nina is the programme’s Business Presenter, and often fills in as anchor on the famous ‘red sofa’. Nina is happiest running around a factory or a farm, delivering the latest economic news in a high-vis jacket and wellies. Her work as a political correspondent means she’s interviewed three Prime Ministers – two of them at Downing Street. Journalism has taken Nina all over the world, making her a perfect host.

Lydia grew up in the Roman city of Lincoln and from there, developed an appetite for historical detail from around the world. Lydia decided to study modern foreign languages at Durham University to help her research into women in history from around the world and has lived in many places such as Paris, Madrid and Salamanca! Along with her passion for fashion and travel, her research and experience have greatly contributed to creating ‘Hysterical Herstories’.

Emma Guns

Emma is an experienced beauty, health and lifestyle writer, presenter and brand consultant.

She is the host of The Emma Guns Show featuring interviews with celebrities, brand creators, editors and authors. The podcast launched in April 2016 and has already charted in the Top 10 on iTunes in the arts chart and has been featured in Stylist, Metro and Cosmopolitan in print and The Coveteur and Get the Gloss online.

Anna Cookson

Award winning presenter and journalist Anna Cookson has worked for some big names in TV and Radio., from BBC Radio 1 to LBC and QVC. You can hear her every morning on BBC Radio Kent's breakfast show, from 6-9am. Anna's debut novel, The Sound of Your Soul, is out now. She's currently working on her second.

Nina is an English journalist, newsreader, TV presenter and actress. A regular face on BBC Breakfast since 2018, Nina is the programme’s Business Presenter, and often fills in as anchor on the famous ‘red sofa’. Nina is happiest running around a factory or a farm, delivering the latest economic news in a high-vis jacket and wellies. Her work as a political correspondent means she’s interviewed three Prime Ministers – two of them at Downing Street. Journalism has taken Nina all over the world, making her a perfect host.

Nina Warhurst

Nina is an English journalist, newsreader, TV presenter and actress. A regular face on BBC Breakfast since 2018, Nina is the programme’s Business Presenter, and often fills in as anchor on the famous ‘red sofa’. Nina is happiest running around a factory or a farm, delivering the latest economic news in a high-vis jacket and wellies. Her work as a political correspondent means she’s interviewed three Prime Ministers – two of them at Downing Street. Journalism has taken Nina all over the world, making her a perfect host.

Izzy Judd was born into a musical family and is a classically trained musician. Judd studied the violin at Chethams School of Music and The Royal Academy of Music. She was a member of electric string quartet Escala, who took part in Britain's Got Talent in 2008 and went on to release a top-ten album with Simon Cowell's label SYCO. She married Harry Judd, a member of Mcfly, in 2012 and they have two children together. She has since been inspired to write about her experiences of motherhood and Mindfulness for Mums is her second book. Full of simple and practical exercises designed to help clear your mind, connect with your children and feel calm amid the chaos of family life.

Andrea McLean

Andrea is a Scottish journalist and TV presenter, famous for her work on ITV Daytime and Loose Women, which she left after 13 years to become an accredited life coach and the CEO and co-founder of the female empowerment site This Girl is on Fire.

Michael James Wong

As an author, speaker, community leader and meditation leader, Michael is one of the leading figures in the modern mindfulness movement. Founder of the app, ‘Just Breathe’, Michael has dedicated himself to increasing the value of mindfulness and meditation in daily life.

Sophia Franklin

Sophia is confident, fun, and quick-witted presenter, voice over artist, broadcast journalist and producer, obsessed with music, news, politics, good outfits, showbiz, food, wine, and podcasts. Sophia is the Monday news presenter on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky, producer, and presenter of the Times Daily World Briefing, and freelance as a newsreader for talkSPORT, talkRADIO and Times Radio. She is also passionate about music, and this has led her to interview a huge number of names. Her career has given her the knowledge, the experience, and the scope to make great conversation at CarFest this summer!

Giovanna Fletcher

As an author, actress, blogger, vlogger, presenter, and mother of 3, Giovanna has succeeded in all that she’s tried her hand at. As author and presenter of the book and podcast, ‘Happy Mum, Happy Baby’, Giovanna has shared her experiences and encouraged others to be confident in themselves as a parent, celebrating how putting a focus on being a happy and confident mum can really make for a happy baby. Her newest novel, ‘Walking on Sunshine’ follows three friends Vicky, Zaza and Mike who have each reached a defining (and longed for) point in their lives. However, rather than feeling happy and fulfilled they individually find themselves asking ‘is this it?’

Steph McGovern

Steph is an award-winning broadcaster, having also worked in financial journalism for over 15 years and spent 7 years as part of the BBC Breakfast family. Steph also co-presented BBC One’s ‘Watchdog’, Channel 4's 2021 Paralympics coverage, her own primetime BBC One programme ‘Shop Well For Less’ and a children’s TV show 'Pocket Money Pitch' for CBBC. Never shy of putting in the hours, Steph also spent time building up her own on-air profile, which included working as a business presenter on the Chris Evans show on Radio 2 and on BBC 5 live.

Ben West is one of the most engaged mental health campaigners in the UK, committed to making real change around mental health in our society. At just 22 years old Ben has already won a Pride of Britain Award, The Diana Award and the Mental Health Hero Award as part of the The Sun Who Cares initiative. He has also spoken on ITV News and BBC Newsbeat, among others, about mental health. The sudden and unexpected loss of his brother to suicide three years ago propelled Ben to take positive action from this tragedy and concentrate his pain into a drive to campaigning around mental health awareness, suicide prevention and fundamentally changing how we approach mental health, especially in schools and the education system.

Born in York, England, Richard Stuttle trained as a chef and honed his skills in fine dining restaurants and hotels around the UK. He has always had a love for travel and spent over ten years travelling and working around Europe. His creativity moved him into the arts and became an accomplished watercolour and oil painter, exhibiting in the UK, France and USA. In 2002 Richard was one of the founding members of Caroline’s Rainbow Foundation, which was formed after his sister’s murder in Australia. He has worked with the charity throughout the years, developing many travel safety projects and speaking to thousands of students about the importance of their safety when abroad. Richard continues to paint and write daily as well as running workshops to develop art, creativity and sensitivity. He is also looking to the future of his charity and new safer travel projects to help our next generation of world travellers.

Andrea McLean

Andrea is a Scottish journalist and TV presenter, famous for her work on ITV Daytime and Loose Women, which she left after 13 years to become an accredited life coach and the CEO and co-founder of the female empowerment site This Girl is on Fire.

Bryony Gordon

Bryony is a celebrated English journalist and author, and the founder of Mental Health Mates. Having had her own struggles with mental health, Bryony had a revelatory experience in 2016. She wanted to find a way of bringing people together to find their ‘we,’ instead of experiencing the loneliness and isolation that she had so often felt herself. She took to Twitter and invited anyone and everyone to join her in Hyde Park to walk and talk without fear or judgment. Apprehensive as to whether anyone would show up, she arrived to find 20 people waiting for her. From that point, Mental Health Mates was born and has continued to develop and grow. Bryony comes to CarFest to divulge her experiences, stories, and general views on wellness this Summer.

Dapper Dave

Dave, most famous for his role on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, is a comedy actor, writer, and presenter. In 2009, the short film CGI-Brows, which Dave starred in, won the People's Choice Award in the Virgin Media Shorts competition. David went on to write and perform a series of sketches for Channel 4's Big Brother's Big Mouth and performed numerous sketch comedies for BBC Comedy Feeds and Channel 4's Comedy Blaps. In 2013 he was one of the regular presenters on the Hat Trick Productions comedy YouTube channel Bad Teeth and in 2015 he starred in ITV's The Delivery Man alongside Darren Boyd and Brotherhood on Comedy Central.

Helen Czerski is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is a Research Fellow in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton.

Emma Guns

Emma is an experienced beauty, health and lifestyle writer, presenter and brand consultant. She is the host of The Emma Guns Show featuring interviews with celebrities, brand creators, editors and authors. The podcast launched in April 2016 and has already charted in the Top 10 on iTunes in the arts chart and has been featured in Stylist, Metro and Cosmopolitan in print and The Coveteur and Get the Gloss online.

Georgia, also known as Toff, is a British media and television personality. She is best known for appearing on E4 reality television series Made in Chelsea from 2014 and winning the seventeenth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! As well as being a huge presence on social media, with over 1.8 million followers on Instagram, Toff is also the author of several books, including her inspirational, positivity-filled memoir, ‘Always Smiling: The World According to Toff’, which was published in 2018.

JENNY POWELL

TV presenter Jenny Powell has been a familiar face on our screen for almost 30 years. The mother-of-two emphasised that since having her daughters, she found a new passion for health and fitness. With a desire to be a strong role model for her daughters, Jenny, an advocate for living a healthy lifestyle, also recently discovered yoga, stressing the importance to stay flexible and mobile. Her enjoyment of yoga is something which she will be sharing with the CarFest crowds come July!

Rob Pope

Rob is a British veterinarian, athlete, and charity fundraiser. He’s one of Britain’s best known ultrarunners - the term used for those who find their fun beyond the marathon distance. Host of the weekly podcast, Red Bull: How to be Superhuman, Rob speaks to athletes who have undertaken seemingly superhuman feats of endurance, finding out how these athletes found the strength to push themselves to the limits of their physical and mental potential. He strives to inspire and motivate people to go out and discover their own limits.

Louise Minchin

Louise is a British television presenter, journalist, and former news presenter. She presented the UK’s most watched Breakfast programme BBC Breakfast on BBC One for 20 years. With a passion in endurance sport, Louise is the host of the top-rated podcast, Push Your Peak, during which she sits down with superhumans who have done extraordinary things, to learn what it takes, mentally and physically - to go again (and again).

Chris & Simon Donald

Viz comics is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979. It is the best-selling comic book in Britain, a scabrous, scatological, satirical take on British society that has been running for coming up to 45 years. Newcastle-born brothers, Chris and Simon Donald set up the comic from a bedroom, watching it rise to huge success in the early 90’s.

Jonny Meah

Jonny Meah is one of the most exciting young presenters in the industry. At just 27 years old, Jonny can be heard on Heart – the biggest commercial radio station in the U.K. You may have also seen him on BBC One, presenting on flagship shows such as The One Show and Morning Live, Sunday Morning Live, and Inside Out. On top of this, Jonny has presented a ground-breaking documentary, with millions of views on YouTube, voiced for big names such as ITV, Radio 1, MTV and many more; he is also a regular host at the historic SSE Wembley Arena.

Dr Kit Chapman is an award-winning journalist and adventurer. With more than a decade of experience writing for titles such as Nature, New Scientist, Chemistry World, Physics World and the Daily Telegraph, his work has taken him to more than 60 countries as he seeks amazing tales from the cutting edge of science. He has interviewed more than a dozen Nobel prize winners, been inside the world's fastest computer and once convinced an Oscar-winning actress he was a cyborg! Kit has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Sunderland and a master’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Bradford. His first book ‘Superheavy’ was listed as one of Publisher's Weekly's top 10 science books for Fall 2019 and a finalist for the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science books.

Oscar Leonard

Oscar is a London based actor, he has recently graduated from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He has always had a passion for all kinds of literature, and finds every opportunity to tell important stories through his roles.

Dr Alex George

Alex is on a mission to make mental health education compulsory in schools and has become prolific throughout the UK in his campaigning with charities such as YoungMinds, Anna Freud Centre & Mind, to lobby the government to change policy and ensure mental health sits alongside the likes of Maths and English on the curriculum. Alex is a resident presenter on ITV’s Lorraine, has presented for Watchdog and appeared on Celebrity Masterchef. Alex has a hugely successful podcast, The Waiting Room, and a rapidly growing audience on YouTube & TikTok. He is also a fully qualified Level 3 PT. Across his platforms, Alex has become a leading voice in mental and sexual health and uses his platform to make health and medicine more accessible to millennials and beyond.

Kate Thornton

Kate is an English journalist and radio & television presenter, best known as the first presenter of The X Factor and for presenting daytime shows including Loose Women and This Morning. Kate also has her very own Spotify podcast, White Wine Question Time which brings together well-known friends, three glasses of wine and three thought-provoking questions. Discover the friendships behind the entertainment headlines and listen in on their conversations for a side to the celebrities you've never heard before.

Kate Lawler

Kate is an English TV personality, presenter, model, and DJ. Kate has recently written her own book, ‘Maybe Baby: On the Mother Side’. It is the story of her journey from parentally undecided to early motherhood, via raging hormones, sleepless nights, emergency hospital trips, mum guilt, unspoken regrets, and post-natal depression. The book is not a parenting manual. It won’t tell you what to pack in your hospital bag, or how to get your baby to sleep. It may not help you with feeding or dealing with tantrums. But it will show you that you’re not alone – and that it’s perfectly possible, and maybe even normal, to love your child with all your heart while also feeling lost, alone, and resentful.

Dapper Dave

Dave, most famous for his role on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, is a comedy actor, writer, and presenter. In 2009, the short film CGI-Brows, which Dave starred in, won the People's Choice Award in the Virgin Media Shorts competition. David went on to write and perform a series of sketches for Channel 4's Big Brother's Big Mouth and performed numerous sketch comedies for BBC Comedy Feeds and Channel 4's Comedy Blaps. In 2013 he was one of the regular presenters on the Hat Trick Productions comedy YouTube channel Bad Teeth and in 2015 he starred in ITV's The Delivery Man alongside Darren Boyd and Brotherhood on Comedy Central.

Richard Jones

Richard is a British music producer, songwriter, bass guitar player and founding member of the rock band The Feeling. Prior to The Feeling signing to Island records in 2005 Jones worked primarily as a session bass guitarist and toured as a member of Sophie Ellis-Bextor's band in 2001–2003 to promote her 2001 album Read My Lips, which was where the couple would begin their romance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Richard and his wife Sophie broadcasted live weekly "Kitchen Disco" concerts featuring themselves and their family, streamed live from their kitchen on Instagram. According to Sophie, Richard came up with the concept and films, edits, and deals with the technical aspects of the broadcasts as well as appearing wearing animal masks.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sophie is an English singer and songwriter. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. After the group disbanded, she went solo, achieving success in the early 2000s. were a means of virtual escapism for many, and became weekly moments of united sequined catharsis for the hundreds of thousands tuning in. Now as we emerge into the world again, Sophie is embarking on the Kitchen Disco Tour for 2022, bringing together all the camp and frivolity of her original show to live stages across the country. The Live Kitchen Disco Tour will bring the virtual to life, cooking-up classic glitter ball staples and Sophie’s own dancefloor-beckoning bangers from across her seven albums, as well as a variety of well-known classics including Our House by Madness and My Favourite Things from the Sound of Music, in a thoroughly domestic Studio-54 sensation for disco divas of all ages.

Diane Louise Jordan

Diane is a British TV presenter and actress. She is extremely well-recognised across the UK for her roles in Blue Peter and Coronation Street. Diane is a Christian and can currently be seen presenting BBC One’s religious programme, Songs of Praise. She also is vice-president of Action for Children, sits on the Council of the Prince’s Trust and is a trustee for the BBC’s Children in Need.

Anna Cookson

Award winning presenter and journalist Anna Cookson has worked for some big names in TV and Radio., from BBC Radio 1 to LBC and QVC. You can hear her every morning on BBC Radio Kent's breakfast show, from 6-9am. Anna's debut novel, The Sound of Your Soul, is out now. She's currently working on her second.

Oscar Leonard

Oscar is a London based actor, he has recently graduated from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He has always had a passion for all kinds of literature, and finds every opportunity to tell important stories through his roles.

Emma Haslett & Gabby Griffith

Emma Haslett and Gabriella Griffith met while working as business journalists, where they bonded over their fondness for bright lipstick and their loathing for confusing corporate doublespeak. They launched their podcast, Big Fat Negative, in August 2018, to wrangle the equally confusing doublespeak surrounding infertility and IVF and debunk some myths while they were at it. The podcast, which mixes a humorous take on infertility with expert interviews, has received wide acclaim, with mentions on BBC Woman's Hour, the Telegraph, The Metro, and Refinery 29.

Emma Guns

Emma is an experienced beauty, health and lifestyle writer, presenter and brand consultant. She is the host of The Emma Guns Show featuring interviews with celebrities, brand creators, editors and authors. The podcast launched in April 2016 and has already charted in the Top 10 on iTunes in the arts chart and has been featured in Stylist, Metro and Cosmopolitan in print and The Coveteur and Get the Gloss online.

Kate Silverton

Kate is an English journalist. She formerly worked as a broadcaster and newsreader for the BBC. Generally a main presenter for the BBC, Kate was seen regularly presenting the BBC News at One and BBC Weekend News, as well as making occasional appearances on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Since then, Kate has recently written her own book, ‘There's No Such Thing As 'Naughty': The Groundbreaking Guide for Parents with Children Aged 0-5’. In her book, the mum to two young children, journalist and children's mental health advocate shares her ground-breaking new approach to parenting under-fives that helps to make family life so much easier and an awful lot more fun!

Diane Louise Jordan

Diane is a British TV presenter and actress. She is extremely well-recognised across the UK for her roles in Blue Peter and Coronation Street. Diane is a Christian and can currently be seen presenting BBC One’s religious programme, Songs of Praise. She also is vice-president of Action for Children, sits on the Council of the Prince’s Trust and is a trustee for the BBC’s Children in Need.

Michael James Wong

As an author, speaker, community leader and meditation leader, Michael is one of the leading figures in the modern mindfulness movement. Founder of the app, ‘Just Breathe’, Michael has dedicated himself to increasing the value of mindfulness and meditation in daily life.

Eddy Temple Morris

Eddy is a British DJ, record producer and TV presenter. Eddy is an effortless and engaging public speaker who has spoken in contexts as varied as university music lectures, to Gary Numan asking Eddy to make a speech on his behalf before he accepted a Silver Clef Icon Award in 2019. Eddy has hosted, presented, and anchored many press launches, gigs, festival stages and awards ceremonies. He is also a huge advocate of injecting positivity into people’s daily lives, through his Good News segment on his daily show on Virgin Radio.

Giovanna Fletcher

As an author, actress, blogger, vlogger, presenter, and mother of 3, Giovanna has succeeded in all that she’s tried her hand at. As author and presenter of the book and podcast, ‘Happy Mum, Happy Baby’, Giovanna has shared her experiences and encouraged others to be confident in themselves as a parent, celebrating how putting a focus on being a happy and confident mum can really make for a happy baby. Her newest novel, ‘Walking on Sunshine’ follows three friends Vicky, Zaza and Mike who have each reached a defining (and longed for) point in their lives. However, rather than feeling happy and fulfilled they individually find themselves asking ‘is this it?’

Kate Thornton

Kate is an English journalist and radio & television presenter, best known as the first presenter of The X Factor and for presenting daytime shows including Loose Women and This Morning. Kate also has her very own Spotify podcast, White Wine Question Time which brings together well-known friends, three glasses of wine and three thought-provoking questions. Discover the friendships behind the entertainment headlines and listen in on their conversations for a side to the celebrities you've never heard before.

Ben Miller

Ben is an English comedian and actor. He rose to fame as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. He is also known for playing the lead role of DI Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC crime drama Death in Paradise, and for portraying James Lester in the ITV science-fiction series Primeval. Ben is also the author of several novels, including the most recent one ‘How I became a dog called midnight’, published in 2021, a body-swap comedy crossed with a compelling adventure as George and his dog Midnight magically take on each other’s identities.

Alex Horne

Alex Horne is an award-winning comedian, author and podcaster, long-established as a key figure in the British comedy scene. He is the creator and co-host of the BAFTA and National Comedy Award-winning hit TV Show, Taskmaster, which first aired on Dave before graduating to Channel 4 in 2020. With over 100 episodes, an Emmy-nomination and a Royal Television Society and Broadcast Award for Best Entertainment Programme under its belt, Taskmaster is a gem of British programming. Alex is also the creator and frontman of The Horne Section, a six-piece band of multitalented musicians.

Sarah Ockwell-Smith is a well-known parenting expert and a highly regarded popular childcare author who specialises in the psychology and science of parenting, ‘gentle parenting’ and attachment theory, with a particular interest in child sleep. She has authored 13 parenting books, translated into over 30 languages, which have sold almost half a million copies. After graduating with an honour’s degree in Psychology (specialising in child development); she embarked on a five year career in Pharmaceutical Research and Development (working with clinical trial data), until she became pregnant with her first child in 2001. After the birth of her firstborn, Sarah retrained as an Antenatal Teacher, Hypnotherapist, Infant Massage Instructor and Doula. Since 2005, she has worked with thousands of families, providing expert advice and support. Sarah runs regular parenting workshops and webinars and offers coaching for parents via email. She also offers gentle sleep training advice to parents of under five-year-olds. Sarah also offers a range of services for media and corporations.

Liz Fletcher

Elizabeth Fletcher is an English actress, who trained at the London School of Musical Theatre and is best known for her role in the TV series In the Club and Cold Feet. She is also recognised for her work as a voice over artist featuring in many TV adverts.

Shakira Akabusi

Shakira Akabusi is a fitness expert, public speaker, social influencer and the founder of StrongLikeMum. Mum to four kids, Shakira is passionate about empowering women to build confidence and positivity during pregnancy and postpartum. Alongside encouraging women to balance motherhood with a healthy lifestyle, Shakira is on a mission to shatter the stereotypes surrounding motherhood, in particular body image and mental wellbeing. She has a wealth of experience speaking, writing and leading workshops for brands such as Vogue Global, Women’s Health Magazine, Adidas UK and Virgin Start-Ups. Combining her expertise of pre and postnatal fitness with her personal parenting experience, Shakira connects with her audience across her social platforms. Shakira is proud of bringing together a growing community of women through StrongLikeMum, all of whom support one another to achieve their goals in sports, business, lifestyle and all areas of parenthood.

Emma Guns

Emma is an experienced beauty, health and lifestyle writer, presenter and brand consultant. She is the host of The Emma Guns Show featuring interviews with celebrities, brand creators, editors and authors. The podcast launched in April 2016 and has already charted in the Top 10 on iTunes in the arts chart and has been featured in Stylist, Metro and Cosmopolitan in print and The Coveteur and Get the Gloss online.

Charlie Higson

Charlie Higson is a successful author, actor, comedian and writer for television and radio. He wrote the phenomenally successful Young Bond series which has now sold over a million copies in the UK and has been translated into over 24 different languages. The series began with SilverFin and was followed by Blood Fever, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold and By Royal Command. All five novels entered the children’s bestseller charts in the top five.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Frank is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. He has achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children's classic by Ian Fleming. He has won two major British awards for children's books, the 2004 Carnegie Medal for Millions, which originated as a film script, and the 2012 Guardian Prize for The Unforgotten Coat.

Francesca Simon

Francesca and started writing stories from the age of eight. She then went to Yale and Oxford Universities to study medieval history and literature. She threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US). It was reading so many stories to her son Joshua, that encouraged her to start writing children’s books and many of Francesca’s stories have been inspired by real life situations. One of Francesca’s most successful and irrepressible creations has been the famous (or should that be infamous) Horrid Henry, who first appeared in 1994. Horrid Henry has gone on to conquer the globe and his adventures are published in 31 languages, and have sold over 21 million of copies worldwide. Francesca is one of the nation’s most popular authors and has written over fifty books for children of all ages. When she is not writing, Francesca is often encouraging and inspiring young writers and has judged many writing competitions for schools.

Jonny Meah

Jonny Meah is one of the most exciting young presenters in the industry. At just 27 years old, Jonny can be heard on Heart – the biggest commercial radio station in the U.K. You may have also seen him on BBC One, presenting on flagship shows such as The One Show and Morning Live, Sunday Morning Live, and Inside Out. On top of this, Jonny has presented a ground-breaking documentary, with millions of views on YouTube, voiced for big names such as ITV, Radio 1, MTV and many more; he is also a regular host at the historic SSE Wembley Arena.

Helen Sanderson

Helen is a psychotherapist, interior designer and one of the UK’s most well-respected clutter experts, appearing regularly on TV, radio and podcasts. Her book, The Secret Life of Clutter, has been described as ‘a love letter to clarity’. Helen helps people create beautifully organised, clutter-free homes and live more mindful and meaningful lives. She works with her clients holistically to uncover what their homes reveal about their psyches and what is blocking them from letting go and moving on. Her ethos is to work with compassion, and to empower people to take positive action to support change. This leads to life-changing shifts, which leave people with a new-found clarity, and homes they love, that love them back.

Diane Louise Jordan

Diane is a British TV presenter and actress. She is extremely well-recognised across the UK for her roles in Blue Peter and Coronation Street. Diane is a Christian and can currently be seen presenting BBC One’s religious programme, Songs of Praise. She also is vice-president of Action for Children, sits on the Council of the Prince’s Trust and is a trustee for the BBC’s Children in Need.

Bryony Gordon

Bryony is a celebrated English journalist and author, and the founder of Mental Health Mates. Having had her own struggles with mental health, Bryony had a revelatory experience in 2016. She wanted to find a way of bringing people together to find their ‘we,’ instead of experiencing the loneliness and isolation that she had so often felt herself. She took to Twitter and invited anyone and everyone to join her in Hyde Park to walk and talk without fear or judgment. Apprehensive as to whether anyone would show up, she arrived to find 20 people waiting for her. From that point, Mental Health Mates was born and has continued to develop and grow. Bryony comes to CarFest to divulge her experiences, stories, and general views on wellness this Summer.

Dapper Dave

Dave, most famous for his role on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, is a comedy actor, writer, and presenter. In 2009, the short film CGI-Brows, which Dave starred in, won the People's Choice Award in the Virgin Media Shorts competition. David went on to write and perform a series of sketches for Channel 4's Big Brother's Big Mouth and performed numerous sketch comedies for BBC Comedy Feeds and Channel 4's Comedy Blaps. In 2013 he was one of the regular presenters on the Hat Trick Productions comedy YouTube channel Bad Teeth and in 2015 he starred in ITV's The Delivery Man alongside Darren Boyd and Brotherhood on Comedy Central.

Rob Pope

Rob is a British veterinarian, athlete, and charity fundraiser. He’s one of Britain’s best known ultrarunners - the term used for those who find their fun beyond the marathon distance. Host of the weekly podcast, Red Bull: How to be Superhuman, Rob speaks to athletes who have undertaken seemingly superhuman feats of endurance, finding out how these athletes found the strength to push themselves to the limits of their physical and mental potential. He strives to inspire and motivate people to go out and discover their own limits.

Helen Rutter

Helen Rutter is an author, stand up comedian and actress, and has featured in TV series such as Coronation Street and Holby City. More recently, she has focused on her true passion of writing children’s books, like the brilliant and witty ‘The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh’, described by Jacqueline Wilson as ‘a delight’.