Vicki Butler-Henderson

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Vicki Butler-Henderson (born February 16, 1972, in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom) is a racing driver and presenter on British TV. She was educated at The Perse School for Girls in Cambridge.

Originally Butler-Henderson worked as a racing driver and instructor before moving into journalism where she worked on numerous British motoring magazines such as Auto Express, What Car? and Performance Car. For a time she was also the babe mechanic in Max Power magazine, referred to simply as VBH.

She started racing at the age of 12.

In 1997 she joined the BBC's flagship motoring show Top Gear. Arriving in the male-dominated presenting line-up she immediately demonstrated that she is a talented presenter and able to match the best efforts of any of the "boys". After the BBC cancelled the original Top Gear, Butler-Henderson, along with co-presenters Quentin Willson and Tiff Needell, moved to Channel 5 in 2002 to continue their work on a show now called Fifth Gear.

As well as presenting Top Gear and Fifth Gear, Butler-Henderson has also co-hosted radio shows on Virgin Radio and done voice overs for television advertisements with her immediately recognisable gravelly voice. She also presents ITV coverage of the British Touring Car Championship, which her brother Charlie briefly contested in 2004.

In early 2005 it was announced she had signed a contract to present a daytime television show for ITV called Date My Daughter in which a single man 'dates' three mothers of single women. After the dates the women decide if he is worthy enough to date their daughter. The first series was first broadcast starting in May 2005.

In January 2006, Vicki appeared in a TV commercial for the [Kent & Medway Safety Camera Partnership] in which she states that the Partnership "don't want your cash, they just want you to slow down". This has caused great consternation amongst drivers who perceive that she has 'gone over to the other side'.

From February 2006 she presented the ten-part series Wrecks To Riches for Discovery Real Time.

Vicki drives a Honda S2000 and a Porsche Boxster

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