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| 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) 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. 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.WEB,disabilitypower100.com/project/nikki-fox, Nikki Fox, Fox was born with muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair for the majority of her adult life.MAGAZINE, Watch This Woman Take Her First Steps in Ten Years,time.com/3639590/nikki-fox-bbc-first-steps-disability/, 2020-12-01, Time,

Career

Nikki Fox has a B.A. (Hons) in music from Brunel UniversityWEB, 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}}WEB, 2019-09-19, Meet Nikki Fox - BBC’s disability correspondent and Watchdog presenter!,www.realitytitbit.com/bbc/meet-nikki-fox-bbcs-disability-correspondent-and-watchdog-presenter, 2020-11-27, Reality Titbit, en-US, and has studied 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.WEB,www.take3management.co.uk/portfolio/nikki-fox/, Nikki Fox, 2015-03-03,www.take3management.co.uk/portfolio/nikki-fox/," title="web.archive.org/web/20181129012913www.take3management.co.uk/portfolio/nikki-fox/,">web.archive.org/web/20181129012913www.take3management.co.uk/portfolio/nikki-fox/, 2018-11-29, dead, 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.WEB,www.muscular-dystrophy.org/news/1806_hit_channel_4_fashion_show_focuses_on_disability, “Hit Channel 4 Show Focuses on Disability”. Muscular Dystrophy News., 2014-09-05,www.muscular-dystrophy.org/news/1806_hit_channel_4_fashion_show_focuses_on_disability," title="web.archive.org/web/20110104175650www.muscular-dystrophy.org/news/1806_hit_channel_4_fashion_show_focuses_on_disability,">web.archive.org/web/20110104175650www.muscular-dystrophy.org/news/1806_hit_channel_4_fashion_show_focuses_on_disability, 2011-01-04, dead, 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.In June 2014 she was appointed disability news correspondent for the BBC.NEWS,www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/23/bbc-news-nikki-fox-disability-correspondent, BBC News appoints Nikki Fox as disability correspondent, Natalie, Gil, The Guardian, 23 April 2014, www.theguardian.com, 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.“WEB, samedifference1, 2014-04-24, Nikki Fox Appointed As BBC News Disability Correspondent,samedifference1.com/2014/04/24/nikki-fox-appointed-as-bbc-news-disability-correspondent/, 2021-05-06, Same Difference, en, 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.WEB,www.newyorkfestivals.com/worldsbestradio/2015/pieces.php?iid=491323&pid=1, New York Festivals - 2015 World’s Best Radio Programsâ„¢ Winners, www.newyorkfestivals.com, In 2016, she was awarded as Journalist of the Year at the 2016 European Diversity Awards. Also that year she joined the BBC Watchdog team as a presenter and appeared on an episode of BBC’s Celebrity Mastermind.WEB, Episode 8, 2015/2016, Celebrity Mastermind - BBC One,www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vsxqy, BBC,

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