Charlie Webster

Charlotte Amy Serena Webster (born 9 November 1982) is a British broadcaster and campaigner. She was born in Sheffield, England, and has a degree in Language and Linguistics from Newcastle University. She started her career as a TV presenter for Real Madrid TV and then worked for various sports channels such as ESPN, Sky Sports, ITV4, and BoxNation. She has covered a wide range of sports events, including football, motorsport, boxing, triathlon, and the Olympics. She has launched several campaigns to raise awareness and funds for causes such as domestic violence, mental health, and malaria prevention.

Early life and education Webster was born in Sheffield and attended Tapton School where she participated in elite junior athletics. Webster's mother, Joy, who also attended the Tapton School, gave birth to her aged 16 and for her early childhood it was just the two of them and her grandparents. She has lived in Crookes,

She studied Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has also made guest appearances on BBC Radio 5 Live on Question Time Extra and Chiles on Friday.

Writing Webster has written numerous sports columns, including a weekly football feature in the New Paper. She writes a blog on SkySports.com, and also writes for the Huffington Post, the Sheffield Star and football.co.uk. She writes a football column for Football Punk magazine and guest writes for The Independent and The Telegraph.

On 9 May 2024, Webster released her first book Why It's OK to Talk About Trauma.

Podcasts Some of her podcasts include: Undiscussable, Webster's podcast 'Scamanda' was the most popular podcast in 2023 in the US charts. In 2025, Apple TV+ released Unicorn Girl, an Apple Original podcast created and hosted by Webster, which tracked the rise and fall of social media influencer Candace Rivera.

In 2023, the New York Festivals Radio Awards awarded gold to Died and Survived in the category of 'Personal Lives Podcast' and bronze to Surviving El Chapo in the category of 'Serialized Podcast'. She hosted various Nike training club events for Nike Women to help inspire women and girls to take up sport and exercise.

She was a contestant on the Channel 4 reality TV show Fool Around With.

Webster has hosted the RCM obesity seminar, spoke at the Women's Aid 'real man' campaign dinner and at the London Football Coaches Association dinner.

In November 2014, Webster resigned as a patron of Sheffield United after Ched Evans was invited to train at the club.

Personal life Sports Webster is a keen runner, triathlete, and boxer, training at the Lynn ABC, and has completed her level 2 Football Association coaching badge.

She has run sixteen marathons, including the London, New York, Singapore and Houston Marathons. In July 2015, she completed her first Ironman Triathlon in 15 hours, 8 minutes and 59 seconds. She completed the Staffordshire 70.3 Ironman five weeks before in June 2015 as preparation in 6 hours 20 minutes. In October 2019, Webster completed her third Ironman Triathlon (70.3) in Marrakesh, with a record of 7:34:20.

Charity work Webster is known for her charity work, especially for causes related to domestic violence, mental health, and sports. She has been an ambassador for Women's Aid since 2010 in the King's Birthday Honours List.

Fund raising

In April 2009, Webster ran in the London Marathon raising money for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK. In April 2010, she ran the London Marathon again, raising money for the Women's Aid Federation of England.

In 2014, Webster embarked on a , seven day run between 40 football grounds for the charity which won her the 2014 Running Awards Runners' Challenge.

On 15 January 2014, in interview with BBC Radio 5 Live's Phil Williams,