Laura Whitmore

Laura Whitmore (born 4 May 1985) is an Irish media personality, model, and actress based in London. She first gained prominence as a video jockey for MTV in 2008. Over her television career, she has presented numerous high-profile programs, including This Morning, Survival of the Fittest, and Love Island, as well as serving as a team captain on the comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.

Whitmore was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in Bray, County Wicklow, alongside two half-brothers. She attended Loreto Secondary School before studying journalism at Dublin City University. She entered the media industry early on, reaching the final 15 of a modeling search on RTÉ One's The Late Late Show in 2003.

In April 2008, Whitmore won the Pick Me MTV campaign to become the face of MTV News in MTV Europe. She hosted news bulletins across Europe for the network between 2008 and 2015, frequently presenting special events. During her tenure with MTV, she also presented five series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! on ITV2 starting in 2011, before departing in April 2016. Additionally, she carried the 2012 Summer Olympics torch, hosted the pilot episode of The Hit, co-hosted the 11th Irish Film & Television Awards in 2014, and served as a semi-final commentator for the BBC's coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

In 2016, Whitmore participated as a contestant on the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with dancer Giovanni Pernice, becoming the sixth contestant voted out. She went on to co-present the ITV2 reality series Survival of the Fittest in 2018 alongside Brennan Reece. In 2020, Whitmore was selected to host the sixth series of ITV2's Love Island, returning for its seventh series in 2021 before stepping down in August 2022 to pursue conflicting projects.

Expanding her broadcasting scope, Whitmore hosted a weekly Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live from 2018 to 2022. In 2023, she began presenting her own Sunday morning chat show, Laura Whitmore's Breakfast Show, on ITV1 and released a one-off ITVX documentary series titled Laura Whitmore Investigates. Since November 2023, she has co-hosted the true crime podcast Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling on BBC Radio.

Outside of broadcasting, Whitmore's work includes fashion, brand endorsements, publishing, and acting. She released a self-branded clothing line in 2009, collaborated on a music-inspired jewelry collection with Daisy London in 2015, and became a Nintendo Switch brand ambassador in 2020. Her debut book, No One Can Change Your Life Except For You, was published in March 2021. Her acting roles include the stage plays Not Dead Enough, 2:22 A Ghost Story, and The Girl on the Train, as well as a lead role in the feature film A Mother for an Hour.

Whitmore married Scottish comedian Iain Stirling in a private humanist ceremony at Dublin City Hall in 2020. The couple welcomed a daughter in late March 2021 and announced in February 2026 that they were expecting their second child.