Caroline is a former International athlete, a nutritionist, fitness consultant, model and TV Presenter. She has a First Class Honours Degree in Sports Science and Master's Degree in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Loughborough University.
Caroline presents 'The Worlds Strongest Man' for Channel 5 as well as the 'UK's Strongest Man', 'Europe's Strongest Man' (Bravo, Challenge and Eurosport), Olympic podcast interviews, 'The Paris Motor Show' for MSN and she played the character 'Ice' in the recent revival of the TV show 'Gladiators' on Sky 1. She is an expert guest presenter and has made appearances on 'Lorraine', 'You are What You Eat', 'Ireland AM' and 'The Friday Night Project' as a fitness and nutrition specialist and in her former Gladiator role. Caroline also presents in the US hosting fitness shows and DRTV.
This year Caroline is set to interview Olympic athletes for Eurosport's 'Together to London' show and will report trackside from the Aviva Grand Prix athletics series for Eurosport 2 news. She is also authoring her first book for publishers Human Kinetics on 'Next Level Training for Women' and is set to produce her own Fitness DVD this summer.
Caroline's presenting expertise and ambition extend across sport, action, lifestyle, health and wellbeing for general entertainment, features and factual programming.
Caroline grew up in Cambridgeshire before moving to Loughborough to pursue her studies and professional sports career. She now lives in London.
Her athletic career started at a young age when she became the youngest competitor at the England Schools competition where she competed in the sprint hurdles aged just 11. A couple of years later she had topped the national rankings in 4 disciplines. She first represented Great Britain at age 15 in the pentathlon and progressed to senior honours and a place in the European Cup Heptathlon Team at 24, where she helped the team secure their place in the Super league alongside athletes Eunice Barber and Carolina Kluft. Her other credits include twice National AAA’s heptathlon champion and silver medallist in the Long Jump. The following winter she transferred her natural speed and power to ice and made her debut in the Great Britain Bobsleigh team, heading out to the World Bobsleigh Championships in Calgary where Team GB secured the silver medal.
A modelling career accompanied Caroline’s athletic success and she became the face of the adidas-polar range in 2005. She has also modelled for sporting brands Nike, Reebok, Speedo, Ron Hill, ProDirect Sports, Wiggle Ltd and Gamegear, as well as being photographed by world famous photographer Rankin for a national fitness campaign.
Following her competitive sporting career, Caroline has become a well renowned authority in the fitness industry. As the face and education spokesperson for Power Plate International, the leading acceleration training machine, Caroline has travelled the world to deliver their accredited education programs to trainers, medics and governments. She implemented a Power Plate education program and group training protocols in the Middle East, was responsible for the master trainer development in South America, and has worked with the UK, US and Dutch partners to produce workout DVDs for worldwide use. Power Plate have also utilised Caroline’s knowledge and training skills to introduce and train high profile clients on their equipment. This role has seen her training on the Oceans 13 Film set, at the homes of Hollywood and UK celebrities, as well as utilizing more advanced methods and techniques with elite athletes, football and cricket teams.
Her success and acclaimed physique have seen Caroline appear as a fitness expert on ITV’s ‘LK Today’, Channel 5’s ‘You Are What You Eat’ and Ireland AM, as well as on the front cover of magazines Ultra Fit, Running Fitness and Mens Healthy Magazine. In 2005 Caroline was voted one of Muscle and Fitness Magazines Top ten female bodies and she attracted sponsorship from leading nutritional supplement company LA Muscle.
In 2008 Caroline auditioned for the role of a Gladiator on Sky 1’s re-launch of the highly successful sports-entertainment show, Gladiators. She outperformed thousands of other applicants to land the role of one of 6 female Gladiators. She became ‘Ice’, a name based on her winter sports experience and a ‘look’ they were to create for her of white blonde hair to go with her blue eyes and sparkling costume! Her character was described as ‘cold, steely, frosty and beautiful’. Caroline performed as this ice maiden character in all 18 shows of the series proving herself queen of the rings and a force to be reckoned with in power ball.
The successful re launch of Gladiators saw Caroline in high demand. She appeared on the Friday Night Project, hosted by guest Geri Halliwell, BBC Switch, Sky Poker’s ‘The Club’ and ‘The Five 00’ and T4 on the Beach. She has been featured in numerous magazines including ‘New’, ‘Heat’ ‘FHM’ and The Times ‘Style’ magazine to share her Gladiator fitness and nutrition expertise.
Following Gladiators Caroline was keen to pursue her sports presenting ambition, and express her more naturally smiley and friendly persona. She teamed up with LA Muscle’s new Health and Fitness Channel ‘LA Muscle TV’ (now 'The Active Channel') to create and present regular shows. In this role she has interviewed rugby stars Martin Bayfield and Kenny Logan, as well as the 5 times World’s Strongest Man Marius Pudjzianowski. She also co-piloted a world record breaking stunt with Terry Grant at the Motor Show 2008 and has tested and featured the latest fitness training methods and devices in the industry.
In 2009 Caroline’s natural presenting ability, which is articulate and warming, continued to bring out the best in her. She presented and interviewed at Europe’s largest Rugby Sevens, Netball and Music Festival - The Bournemouth Sevens, at the Dubai Sevens and instructed her own DVD for Circle Glide by Leg Magic, the latest home fitness product to hit the US market, and she continued to write for leading magazines within the health and fitness industry. You will see her fitness features every month in Ultra Fit Magazine.
Most recently Caroline has become the female face of the Worlds Strongest Man competition series, presenting shows for Bravo TV and Eurosport in 2010 and The Worlds Strongest Man 2011 for Channel 5.
With her natural beauty, feminine athletic physique, superb sporting talent and wide sporting and scientific knowledge, as well as her passion for the media industry, Caroline is a young woman determined to succeed at all that she does…