Sonali Shah Biography – Sonali Shah Wiki
Sonali Shah is a British radio and television broadcaster who currently presents Sunday Breakfast on Magic FM as well as BBC television program Escape to the Country, ITV’s Tonight and has her own segment on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch. Her breakthrough came through when she was a presenter for the BBC’s children’s news program Newsround from July 2006 until November 2011. Other programs she is known for presenting include The National Lottery Draws, Crimewatch, and Watchdog.
For over a decade, she trained as a dancer while studying Indian classical, Indian folk, and Streetdance. Sonali attended Longfield First and Middle School and went on to Whitmore High School in Harrow. She studied broadcast journalism at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at Nottingham Trent University. She wanted to pursue a career in medicine and she began by presenting on the local hospital radio. Following her university studies, in early 2002, she joined BBC World Service as a producer, also presenting on World Business Report and The World Today. She moved to BBC Radio 5 Live as a launch producer for Jeff Randall’s Weekend Business, which won a Sony Radio Award. She then started reporting for Weekend Business as well as Wake Up to Money and 5 live Money.
She became part of Newsround at first as an afternoon relief presenter. She presented breakfast, afternoon, and weekend bulletins from 2006 as part of a new team replacing Ellie Crisell and Jake Humphrey. At the same time, she was presenting the main program from 2008. She also reported for Sportsround and posted an online diary from the 2010 Commonwealth Games for the Newsround website. She made a number of Newsround Specials, including two documentaries from Afghanistan in 2010, which were also shown on the BBC News Channel. In 2011 she guest presented Match of the Day Kickabout on BBC Two and made guest appearances on Sadie J and Blue Peter. On November 9, 2011, Shah announced she was leaving Newsround before it moved to its new base at MediaCityUK in Salford.
In 2009, Shah made a move to the BBC News Channel’s Business News on top of Newsround. She can be seen occasionally broadcasting in the afternoon and evening. In 2010 Shah went to Delhi, to present coverage of the Commonwealth Games for BBC Sports on BBC One and BBC Two. She was one of the main reporters for the events coverage. She was one of three BBC presenters, along with Manish Bhasin and Rishi Persad, at the 2011 Cricket World Cup in the Indian sub-continent. Also in 2011, she reported from the University Boat Race and Wimbledon. She regularly presents a special program for BBC One called British Olympic Dreams, broadcast since February 2011, that follows Britain’s potential Olympic hopefuls for 2012. She also anchored shows on BBC Three during the games as well as being stationed at Lords for archery.
In August 2011, Shah moved to BBC World News. She presented the daytime bulletin on the Weekend and remains a relief presenter. In December 2011, she stood in for Rhod Sharp on Up All Night. She focuses on BBC News and BBC Sport. She was among the BBC News team for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II coverage on BBC One. She was a reporter from the crowds at The Mall. In May 2014, Shah became a sports reporter for Today, the daily morning news program for BBC Radio 4.
On March 2, 2013, Sonali Shah and her Newsround co-presenter Ore Oduba appeared on the BBC’s Let’s Dance for Comic Relief, dancing to “Hey Ya!” by Outkast. They were eliminated and did not get through to the final. In 2014, she became a presenter of the house-buying BBC TV show Escape to the Country. She also presented the spin-off to this program, “Escape to the Perfect Town” and “I Escaped to the Country”. In August 2016, she covered for sports presenter Matt Williams on BBC Radio 2 during Simon Mayo Drivetime’s 3-week summer break.
Sonali Shah Age
She was born on July 26, 1980, in Edgware, United Kingdom.
Sonali Shah Parents
She was born in Edgware to immigrant Indian parents, who run a pharmacy.
Sonali Shah Husband
She is married to her husband, Adarsh. The family resides in London with their children, daughter Ariana, and son Rafi.
Sonali Shah Children
She has two children. Her daughter Ariana was born in October 2013, and her son Rafi was born in October 2016.
Sonali Shah Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 1 inch (1.5 meters) tall. She has always joked that ” she needs heels for interviewing tall sportspeople”.
Sonali Shah Nationality
She is of British nationality.
Sonali Shah Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @sonalishah.
