Ore Oduba

Ore Oduba
Born Ore Oduba
(1986-11-17) 17 November 1986[1]
London, England
Ethnicity Nigerian
Occupation Journalist, television presenter
Notable credit(s) Newsround
BBC Sport
Match of the Day Kickabout
The One Show

Ore Oduba (born 17 November 1986) is a British television news and sports presenter, currently working for BBC Sport. He is best known for presenting the BBC children's news programme Newsround from 2008 until 2014.

Early life and education

Oduba was born in London, to Nigerian parents. He was educated at Dumpton School, then Canford School, a co-educational independent school for both boarding and day pupils, in the village of Canford Magna, near to the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, in South West England, followed by Loughborough University, where he studied Sports Science and Social Science. He is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United.[2]

Career

Oduba had always aimed for a career in sports broadcasting,[3] and initially joined The Network, an Edinburgh television festival scheme.

Oduba joined Newsround in August 2008, following the departure of Lizo Mzimba and Laura Jones. His first role on the programme was as a reporter and breakfast bulletin presenter. He was quickly promoted to deputy presenter in 2009, filling in for main presenter Sonali Shah in her absence. In 2010 he joined Shah to begin presenting the main Newsround bulletin double-headed. This continued until Shah's departure in November 2011. He has since been joined by reporters Leah Gooding and Hayley Cutts. As part of his role he also presented spin-off show Sportsround. He became the main presenter in October 2008 when the show relaunched. He presented until its cancellation in 2010. The show was replaced by Match of the Day Kickabout which Oduba also presents. Oduba left Newsround in 2014.

Oduba presents sport bulletins for BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also presented and reported on British Olympic Dreams along with former Newsround co-presenter Sonali Shah.

Oduba began a debut presenting solo on the morning slot for the Commonwealth Games 2014 on BBC One and BBC Sport.

Oduba regularly appeared on CBBC studio presentation following his Newsround shift. He has also been a guest on CBBC shows including Sam & Mark's TMi Friday, Hacker Time and All Over the Place.

In the lead up to the 2012 Summer Olympics Oduba presented a programme called Ultimate Sports Day for CBBC.

On 2 March 2013, Oduba and Sonali Shah 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.[4]

He also plays the role of Nathan in Hacker Time on CBBC and in 2015, he guest presented an episode of The One Show alongside Alex Jones for BBC One.

Since 2015, he has been a presenter on The National Lottery Draws on Saturday evenings and he presented the 2015 New Year Live programme on BBC One.

From 7 March 2016, Oduba took part in a challenge for Sport Relief, called 'Hell on High Seas', in which he sailed 1,000 miles from Belfast to London with 5 other celebrities including Alex Jones and Suzi Perry.[5][6] In 2016 he also presented Sport Relief: Clash of the Titans with Dan Walker.

Filmography

References

Media offices
Preceded by
Sonali Shah		 Main presenter of Newsround
2011 – 2013 		Succeeded by
Ricky Boleto
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