Reshmin Chowdhury ( bn, রেশমিন চৌধুরী; born 16 December 1977) is a British-Bangladeshi

sports journalist Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions. Sports journalism started in the early 1800s when it was targeted to the social elite and transitioned into an integral part of the n ...

broadcaster and event host. She currently lead presents live

Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...

football on Talksport every Saturday morning in GameDay Exclusive. She presents live coverage of the

Women's Super League The Women's Super League (WSL), currently known as the Barclays Women's Super League (BWSL) for sponsorship reasons, is the highest league of women's football in England. Established in 2010, it is run by the Football Association and features t ...

and the Women’s Football Show for

BBC Sport BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside ...

. She has worked across all football coverage for

BT Sport BT Sport is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe and BT Group, they first launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at the former International Broad ...

for 8 years, most notably the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...

the

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and the

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. She fronted coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games with

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and Discovery Plus and presented for

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Early life

Chowdhury was born and brought up in London, England and is of

Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...

origin. Chowdhury described her childhood as growing up "in an extremely open-minded, progressive Bengali Muslim family and within a huge second-generation community where education, culture, religion and music were the cornerstones of my upbringing." Chowdhury attended Woodford County High School for Girls. In 2000, she graduated with a 2.1

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(Hons) in Politics with Economics from the

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

. In 2003, she studied for an

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Post-Graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at

Harlow College Harlow College is a further education college in Harlow, Essex, England. This medium-sized college has 5,900 students as of 2018 of which 2,585 are on 16-19 programmes and 2,000 are on adult educational programmes. Its main campus is in the tow ...

Broadcasting career

Chowdhury spent her university placement year as a TV News Helpdesk Operator at

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TV News. Early roles included travelling to Borneo for the ITV1 programme ''

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'', UK Editor of global online events guide whatsonwhen.com and producing specialist business reports for various international print media. She worked in Madagascar, Dubai, Greece, South Africa, Maldives and Nigeria. In 2005, Chowdhury moved to television news and joined ITN as a news assistant and producer on the main news bulletins, before producing digital and online news for ITN ON. She was a producer and had a few stints as weekend reporter with

BBC London BBC London is the BBC English Region producing local radio, television, teletext and online services in London and parts of the surrounding area. Its output includes the daily '' BBC London News'' and weekly '' Sunday Politics'' on television ...

before moving to

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and

Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is he ...

. From September 2008, she spent two seasons as a presenter with

Real Madrid TV Real Madrid TV is a free digital television channel, operated by Real Madrid specialising in the Spanish football club. The channel is available in Spanish and English. It is located at Ciudad Real Madrid in Valdebebas (Madrid), Real Madrid's trai ...

. She was the first journalist to interview

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following his then world-record signing for

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. She also secured the world exclusive with

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whom she interviewed in French. Chowdhury has been part of the

team since May 2010. She was a sports presenter for the

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in the UK and

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. Also

Match of the Day 2 ''Match of the Day 2'' is a Premier League football highlights programme. It is a companion show to Match of the Day, usually broadcast on BBC One on Sunday evenings, thus facilitating coverage of the respective week's PL matches that were playe ...

- Stand-in Presenter;

2018 FIFA World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting righ ...

– Live match Presenter in Salford; 2018 & 2019

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– Reporter; FA Women’s Super League and The Women's Football Show – Presenter;

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup The 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 17th FIFA U-17 World Cup, a biennial international football tournament contested by men's under-17 national teams. Organised by FIFA, the tournament took place in India between 6 and 28 October 2017, after t ...

Final – Presenter;

– Reporter;

Football Focus ''Football Focus'' is a BBC television magazine programme launched in 1974 covering football, normally broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday lunchtimes during the football season. From the 2009–10 season to the 2020–21 season Football Focus ...

– Reporter;

2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, fro ...

– Reporter ( BBC Radio 5 Live);

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– Presenter (

). In August 2014, Chowdhury joined the

team as presenter of their nightly news round-up show ''SportsHUB''. Reshmin currently presents

’s coverage of the

and

and has presented across the

, the

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and the FA Women’s Super League. She has been a lead reporter on

's coverage of the

, working in multiple languages, plus the

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. Chowdhury hosted live coverage of group games for

during the

as well as a daily show for

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in the UK. In August 2019, Chowdhury became the lead Presenter of the newly launched “GameDay Exclusive” every Saturday, hosting live

football on Talksport. In the summer of 2021, she was one of the main anchors for the coverage of the 2020 Summer Olympics in

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on streaming provider

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and

. She returned to host the

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...

Beijing 2022. In April 2022, Reshmin presented the FIFA World Cup Draw Qatar 2022 in Doha alongside

Idris Elba Idrissa Akuna Elba (; born 6 September 1972) is an English actor.

. She has co-presented the

Group stage Draw to a global audience for four consecutive years from 2017-2020. She co-presented The Best FIFA Football Awards

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

alongside

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and

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along with Jermaine Jenas. She twice co-hosted the BT Sport Industry Awards and many other ceremonies and events. In 2022 she presented on the English language

BeIN Sports beIN Sports ( ) is a global network of sports channels owned and operated by the Qatari media group beIN. It has played a major role in the increased commercialization of Qatari sports. Its chairman is Nasser Al-Khelaifi, and its CEO is Yousef ...

channels for the FIFA World Cup in the MENA region.

Singing career

Chowdhury spent much of her extra-curricular time as a vocalist. She has worked alongside musician

Nitin Sawhney Nitin Sawhney , D.Mus (; born 1964) is a British musician, producer and composer. A recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, among multiple international awards throughout his career. Sawhney's work combines Asian an ...

. She was the lead singer in the UK touring theatre production of ''

The Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kuruk ...

'' and recorded vocals on the 2006 film '' The Namesake''.

Awards and nominations

In November 2013, Chowdhury was nominated for the Media Award sponsored by ''FC Business Magazine'' at the Asian Football Awards. Reshmin Chowdhury In November 2015, she won the Media Award at the Asian Football Awards.

Personal life

Chowdhury lives in London. She has two children and is a Tottenham Hotspur FC fan. She is fluent in

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the ...

and also speaks conversational Spanish, Italian and French.

References

External links

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