{{Short description|English broadcaster, presenter and documentary maker}} {{distinguish|Nicki Fox}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Nikki Fox | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1980|03|03}} | birth_place = Hillingdon, Middlesex, England | education = | alma_mater = Brunel University | occupation = Presenter, journalist | employer = BBC | children = | birthname = | spouse = | credits = }} '''Nikki Fox''' (born 3 March 1980<ref name=":1" />) is an English broadcaster, presenter and documentary maker. She is a Sony Award-winning journalist who presents for television and network radio. Fox appeared on various TV and radio shows including ''Watchdog, The One Show, How to Look Good Naked, and Rip-Off Britain.<ref name=":0" />'' She is one of the first female disabled TV presenters in the world and has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://disabilitypower100.com/project/nikki-fox | title=Nikki Fox }}</ref>
Fox was born with muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair for the majority of her adult life.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Watch This Woman Take Her First Steps in Ten Years|url=https://time.com/3639590/nikki-fox-bbc-first-steps-disability/|access-date=2020-12-01|magazine=Time}}</ref>
== Career == Nikki Fox has a B.A. (Hons) in music from Brunel University<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=European Award for alumni journalist {{!}} Brunel University London|url=https://www.brunel.ac.uk/alumni/News-and-events/News/Articles/2016/European-Award-for-alumni-journalist|access-date=2020-11-27|website=www.brunel.ac.uk|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2019-09-19|title=Meet Nikki Fox - BBC's disability correspondent and Watchdog presenter!|url=https://www.realitytitbit.com/bbc/meet-nikki-fox-bbcs-disability-correspondent-and-watchdog-presenter|access-date=2020-11-27|website=Reality Titbit|language=en-US|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206085231/https://www.realitytitbit.com/bbc/meet-nikki-fox-bbcs-disability-correspondent-and-watchdog-presenter|url-status=dead}}</ref> and has studied music theory, piano, opera, composition, analysis and criticism of 20th-century music.
She began working at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the Peterborough Breakfast Show, presenting Fox's What's On Guide, as well as competitions and she then won a place on a Channel 4 Disability Researcher Training Scheme and started working at Maverick TV, Channel 4 and ITV.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.take3management.co.uk/portfolio/nikki-fox/ |title=Nikki Fox|publisher=|access-date=2015-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129012913/http://www.take3management.co.uk/portfolio/nikki-fox/ |archive-date=2018-11-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010, Nikki was a researcher and co-presenter on Gok Wan's ''How to Look Good Naked with a Disability'', a Channel 4 show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.muscular-dystrophy.org/news/1806_hit_channel_4_fashion_show_focuses_on_disability|title="Hit Channel 4 Show Focuses on Disability". Muscular Dystrophy News.|publisher=|access-date=2014-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104175650/http://www.muscular-dystrophy.org/news/1806_hit_channel_4_fashion_show_focuses_on_disability|archive-date=2011-01-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She has been nominated for Best On Screen talent at the Cultural Diversity Network Awards in 2010. Fox researched and presented a major documentary for BBC Radio 5 Live, ''Beyond Disability: The Adventures of a Blue Badger'' where she set out to discover what it is really like being disabled in the UK in 2012. It won a Sony accolade and the 2012 New York Festivals Radio Programme and Promotion Awards.''<ref name=":0" />''
In June 2014 she was appointed disability news correspondent for the BBC.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/23/bbc-news-nikki-fox-disability-correspondent|title=BBC News appoints Nikki Fox as disability correspondent|first=Natalie|last=Gil|newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 April 2014|publisher=|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> Fox said: "I am beyond excited to be joining BBC News and am thrilled to be able to work as part of a specialist team of journalists, dedicated to the reporting of disability issues for a national audience, in a new and fresh way."<ref>{{Cite web|last=samedifference1|date=2014-04-24|title=Nikki Fox Appointed As BBC News Disability Correspondent|url=https://samedifference1.com/2014/04/24/nikki-fox-appointed-as-bbc-news-disability-correspondent/|access-date=2021-05-06|website=Same Difference|language=en}}</ref>
In 2015 she won a New York Festival Radio Award for ''Learning to Walk Again'', a radio programme she presented for BBC Radio 5 Live.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/worldsbestradio/2015/pieces.php?iid=491323&pid=1|title=New York Festivals - 2015 World's Best Radio Programs™ Winners|website=www.newyorkfestivals.com|access-date=2 July 2015|archive-date=23 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023232427/http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/worldsbestradio/2015/pieces.php?iid=491323&pid=1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2016, she was awarded as Journalist of the Year at the 2016 European Diversity Awards.<ref name=":0" /> Also that year she joined the BBC ''Watchdog'' team as a presenter<ref name=":1" /> and appeared on an episode of BBC's ''Celebrity Mastermind''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Episode 8, 2015/2016, Celebrity Mastermind - BBC One|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vsxqy|website=BBC}}</ref>
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