BAFTA-nominated British TV Host Sophie, best known for fronting the Paralympics in the UK and US, also reports on hard-hitting documentaries, live-event broadcasts, and, most recently, fronting a prime-time travel series. She is one of the first female wheelchair users to become a T.V. personality in the U.K. and worldwide.
In 2023, Sophie launched Making Space Media alongside co-founder Keely Cat Wells. The first media company of its kind, MSM, is a Disabled-led production company that centres Disabled women and people. MSM is in a first-look deal with Hello Sunshine, the media company founded by Reece Witherspoon.
Sophie is also the leader of Rights on Flights, a global campaign and member organisation that provides educational resources for the airline industry and empowers disabled travellers.
A Global Ambassador for Can-Am, Airbnb, and PADI, Sophie is an avid traveller and writes about inclusive travel in her monthly column for Condé Nast Traveler, for whom she also serves on the Global Advisory Board. Her first book, a bestselling memoir, “Driving Forwards,” was published in 2023.
Paralysed in a car crash when she was eighteen years old, today, Sophie is an award-winning advocate for disability rights and has been voted in the top 10 most influential disabled people in the U.K. for the past three years. She is on the special advisory board of Human Rights Watch, Patron of disability charity Scope and the spinal injuries charity Back Up. She lives and works in L.A. and London.
