Nicki Chapman

Nicki Chapman is an accomplished TV presenter and broadcaster. For many years, she has been the face of the nation’s favourite Escape To The Country and it’s two spin-offs, I Escape To The Country and more recently Celebrity Escape To The Country for BBC1. She has become a mainstay of the BBC presenting team, having been a central figure during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show since 2006.

Over on the airwaves, Nicki often sits in at Radio 2 for Zoe Ball’s Breakfast Show, Michael Ball’s Sunday Love Songs and Romesh Ranganathan’s Saturday Show. She also presented three documentaries for the station: The Fuller Picture (an in-depth interview with Simon Fuller), Here We Come – The Monkees at 50 and Let’s Abba Party.

In Nicki’s memoir, So Tell Me What You Want, published by Little, Brown and Hachette, she lifts the lid on her fascinating career in the Nineties and Noughties music scene. As one of the most prolific music publicists of the 90s and 00s, Nicki Chapman made chart dreams come true for legendary artists such as Prince, The Spice Girls, Take That, and David Bowie.

From 1995 to 2000, she was a joint partner in the Brilliant! PR Company which launched and/or represented artists including The Spice Girls, Annie Lennox, Charlotte Church, Take That, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Billie Piper, David Bowie, Van Morrison, S Club 7 and Amy Winehouse, as well as providing the PR for the BRIT Awards, various West End Shows and Channel 4’s hit series The Big Breakfast.

It was during this time Nicki was approached by ITV to appear as a judge on the then brand new entertainment show Popstars which proved an instant hit, with winning group Hear’say going on to sell over a million copies of their first single. Nicki continued her TV career on the new ITV/19 Entertainment show Pop Idol alongside fellow judges Pete Waterman and Neil Fox, reuniting with Simon Cowell for a show that regularly had over 10 million viewers per episode and changed the face of Saturday night entertainment.

Delving back into her music roots, Nicki has produced and presented The Shocking Truth about Talent Shows and The Great Garden Challenge for Channel 5. Her other documentary presenting credits include Operation People Power, Britain’s Home Truths and Holding Back The Years, all for the BBC. She also created and presented the hit podcast Talking Success, where she interviewed some of the biggest names in the media and the arts.

In March 2024, Nicki was announced as the host of Midsomer Murders Mayhem, the official podcast dedicated to the beloved and best-selling crime drama series.

In addition to her television and radio duties, Nicki is a much sought after event host and speaker, having previously hosted at The First Time Buyer Awards, The European Diversity Awards, Malvern Autumn Show and BBC Gardeners’ World Live.

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