Helen Skelton

Helen Skelton

Born: July 19, 1983
in Carlisle, Cumbria, UK
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 presents The Instant Gardener, which just aired its second series on BBC Daytime.

Movies for Helen Skelton...

Title: Harvest on the Farm
Character: Presenter
Released: September 26, 2023
Type: TV
Following the harvest tasks and festivities at Barleylands Farm in Essex with Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson.
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Title: Dan & Helen's Pennine Adventure
Character: Self
Released: August 15, 2023
Type: TV
Dan Walker and Helen Skelton travel the Pennine mountains: the 'backbone of Britain'.
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Title: Inside the Superbrands
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 3, 2022
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Winter on the Farm
Character: Presenter
Released: December 6, 2021
Type: TV
Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson are live from Cannon Hall farm in South Yorkshire as the UK prepares for winter and Christmas.
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Title: LIVE: Summer on the Farm
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: June 14, 2021
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Springtime on the Farm
Character: Presenter
Released: April 9, 2018
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Walks with My Dog
Character: Herself
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: TV
Celebrities take a stroll in the great British outdoors with their faithful hound.
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Strictly Len Goodman
Title: Strictly Len Goodman
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 23, 2016
Type: Movie
In a tribute to Len Goodman, a look back on his dozen years beneath the glitterball as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage, archive moments and interviews with judges and contestants from the show
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Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
Title: Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
Character: Herself
Released: June 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Gadget aficionado Stephen Fry chooses and presents his 100 all-time favourite contraptions, from the tin opener, trouser press and answering machine to the apple peeler, iron and iPod
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Title: Helen's Polar Challenge for Sport Relief
Character: Herself
Released: January 23, 2012
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Character: Herself - Contestant
Released: January 10, 2012
Type: TV
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?
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Stargazing Challenges
Title: Stargazing Challenges
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: January 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Blue Peter presenters Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood want to learn more about the solar system so they challenge scientists Helen Czerski and Jem Stansfield to find out more. They look at how to make telescopes and rockets, and use a toilet roll to measure the distances between planets.
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Title: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Released: October 24, 2011
Type: TV
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
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Title: Hacker Time
Character: Herself
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: TV
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. The show first aired in September 2011 and was rated #10 in the Weekly Top 10 Programmes for the week of 3–9 October 2011. The second series of Hacker Time began airing on 6 August 2012 and instead of the guests being tricked onto the show, Hacker sends out Wilf and Herman to kidnap them and get them to come onto the show. The third series of the show started on 22 July 2013 where Derek books better guests than Hacker has in mind.
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Title: Pointless Celebrities
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 2011
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Country Tracks
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: April 19, 2009
Type: TV
Series celebrating the British countryside.
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Title: Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
Character: Self
Released: March 22, 2009
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Released: February 21, 2009
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The One Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker from Monday-Thursday, with Chris Evans appearing instead of Baker on Fridays and relief presenters appearing when required.
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Title: Sportsround
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Celebrity Mastermind
Released: December 26, 2003
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Character: Panellist
Released: November 12, 1996
Type: TV
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.
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Title: SMart
Released: October 5, 1994
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Countryfile
Character: Self - Host
Released: July 24, 1988
Type: TV
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.