Victoria Valentine

Victoria Valentine (née Trench, formerly Fritz; born 14 May 1984) is a former English journalist, newsreader, and television presenter.

She was a presenter on BBC World News, presenting the shows main news bulletins, and presenter for BBC World News's live business news programmes World Business Report and Worklife. She was also a presenter and business correspondent on BBC News and BBC Breakfast. She stepped down from her role presenting her last BBC News bulletin on 22 September 2023.

Early life and education Victoria Valentine was born on 14 May 1984. Her mother is Irish.

Valentine was educated at Woldingham School in Surrey. She studied law and economics, and environmental economics at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2006, and later studied environmental economics at Cambridge Judge Business School from 2006 to 2007, graduating with a Master of Business Administration degree.

In January 2020, Valentine appeared as a contestant on the quiz show Celebrity Mastermind with the specialist subject "The Chelsea Flower Show". She won the show with 15 points.

In March 2020, it was announced that Valentine would co-host a new global news show Around the World by BBC News with Ben Bland for the short-form streaming platform Quibi. The show was short lived with the shut down of Quibi in December 2020.

Personal life In 2011, Valentine married writer and barrister, Dan Fritz. They have two children together.

On 26 October 2022, Valentine announced that she and Fritz were divorcing. She also announced that she would be changing her surname to "Valentine", her mother's maiden name, saying that "going back [to my father's family name, rather my mother's original family name] felt emotionally regressive, stunting, depressing and quite frankly, anti-feminist."