Judi Love 'honoured' as she prepares to host Ethnicity Awards for a second time

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Loose Women star Judi Love will presenter the 2023 Ethnicity Awards in London later this year (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Loose Women star Judi Love will presenter the 2023 Ethnicity Awards in London later this year (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Judi Love will return as the host of the 2023 Ethnicity Awards later this year following her stint fronting the star-studded event last year.

The presenter, 43, follows in the footsteps of celebrity names such as Alex Scott, Marvin Humes and her Loose Women co-star Charlene White, who have all previously hosted Britain's biggest Black, Asian and minority red carpet extravaganza. It will be the second year in a row Judi has been the face of the event.

Sir Lewis Hamilton, Rochelle Humes, Gok Wan and Trent Alexander-Arnold are among the nominees, with the event taking place in London on November 2nd. This Morning presenter Rochelle is tipped to win big as is legendary broadcaster and fashion guru Gok, who away from the media spotlight has championed causes to promote equality, partially for LGBT+ people from minority communities.

Judi spoke exclusively to the Mirror last year about some of the shocking misogynoir Black women and girls face, ahead of her Channel 4 documentary, in which the comedian examined the inequalities experienced by Black females, using humour to address the social, political and economic barriers they face compared with their white counterparts.

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"There wasn’t any [misogynoir in regards to dating discussed] in the documentary but there has been stuff mentioned from some of the young girls speaking [on the documentary] who talked about how the pressure on Black women to feel a certain way," Judi told the Mirror in October.

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"Because Western society has Eurocentric ideas about what is beautiful and and that means Black girls have to go above and beyond to feel and look pretty - the expectations would be so much higher." She added: "But what we’ve clarified is that as a Black woman you are beautiful in your natural skin as yourself."

As he role as the the 2023 Ethnicity Awards host was announced earlier this month, Judi said: "I am so excited to return to host the 2023 Ethnicity Awards. The event last year was amazing, and it is so inspiring to see the talent in the room and the real change people are making. The Ethnicity Awards celebrates the role models and those advancing opportunities for underrepresented people across the world. I am honoured to be part of the occasion again and can’t wait to see all the winners!"

The Ethnicity Awards is the biggest Black, Asian and minority red carpet ceremony in Britain and is held in partnership with HSBC, celebrating the leading activists, allies and celebrities in the UK and globally.

2023 ETHNICITY AWARDS NOMINEES

ONLINE INFLUENCER

Big Manny

Kike Oniwinde Agoro

Courtney Daniella Boateng

Rachel Ama

Marvyn New Harrison

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Cherry Jain

Abibat

Amber Gill

Nadiya Hussain

Miah Carter

PUBLIC SERVICE OR CAMPAIGNER

Akala

Ayo Sokale

Ashna Sarkar

Waheed Alli

Valda Jackson

Dr Joan St John

Harnaam Kaur

Diane Abbott

Karen Blackett

Patrick Vernon

INSPIRATIONAL PUBLIC FIGURE

Patricia Bright

Steven Bartlett

Ali Abdaal

Daniel Kaluuya

Idris Elba

Michaela Coel

Alex Scott

Ozwald Boateng

Tim Campbell

Lewis Hamilton

Judi Love 'honoured' as she prepares to host Ethnicity Awards for a second timeAlex Scott has been nominated for one of the big honours (The FA via Getty Images)

MUSIC ARTIST

Pritt

Jim Legxcy

Cat Burns

Asim Riaz

Lil Simz

Rina Sawayama

Dave

Rita Ora

Mae Muller

Jorja Smith

BROADCAST, JOURNALIST OR HOST

Pritt

Jim Legxcy

Cat Burns

Asim Riaz

Lil Simz

Rina Sawayama

Dave

Rita Ora

Mae Muller

Jorja Smith

MEDIA IMPACT OR PROGRESS MOMENT

BBC One: Champion new series

Disney's Little Mermaid

ITVX: Riches

School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls

Queen Charlotte

Joy Ride

The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan

Ncuti Gatwa in Doctor Who

Dreaming Whilst Black: Adjani Salmon

Netflix : Bling Empire

SPORTS PERSONALITY

Eniola Aluko

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Lauren James

Denise Rosemarie Lewis

Lewis Hamilton

Nicola Adams

Dame Kelly Holmes

Nikkita Parris

Trent Alexander-Arnold

Alice Dearing

EXCEPTIONAL INCLUSION

Zarina Mahmud - Credit Suisse
Brucine Francis - Jacobs
Maria St Louis - Channel 4
Chanelle Gray - Savills
Sujan Sribalakrishnan - Amazon
Simone Coultress Johnson - Matthey
Kerry Griffiths - BP
Apeksha Naik - Great British Railways
Mina Prince – Macquarie

Nicole Willams - Ashurst

INSPIRATIONAL LEADER

Raghu Narula - NatWest
Rakesh Thakrar - Phoenix Group
Victoria Chan - Santander
Oli O'Donoghue - HSBC
Belton Flournoy - Protiviti
Vinay Ramkumar - Avanade
George Kwashie Awusu - KPMG
Mohammed Basid - CBRE
Jay Rohman - Lloyds Banking Group
Mandisa Gordon - Jaguar Land Rover

CHAMPION (ALLY)

Liam Cowell - DLA Piper
Louise Bucknole - Paramount
Simon Croxford - UBS
Simon Tarry - Smith + Nephew
Richard Court - Cadent Gas Ltd
Honey Kirtley - BNY Mellon
Hayley Creighton - National Grid
Emily Parker - Tesco
David Aldrich – Moody’s
Deborah Nutt - Arcadis

WORKPLACE HERO

Aderinsola Bamgbelu - Warner Brothers
Seleeta Watson - Computacenter
James Barkley - Rolls Royce
Sarita Rai - Tarmac

Lily Satterthwaite - Microsoft

Sosseh Njie - BCLP Law

Seema Bhatnagar - PwC

Zahida Zabairu - Nestle

Jannet Dosanjh - Pinsent Masons

Anoushka Lilley - Nationwide Building Society

FUTURE LEADER

Cecilia Adjei-Sarpong - Essence Media
Mike Adebiyi - Google
Marina Ebrubah - The Man Group
Tashan Dwyer - Allen Overy
Junaed Khan - UK Government
Ahmed Yusuf - OVO
Laura Rice - Motability Operations
Alexinder Riyat - Citi
Jyoti Jassi - Network Rail
Leanna Hay - Experian

NETWORK GROUP (ERG)

Airbus
BT
GSK
Sainsburys
The Co-Operative Bank
Virgin Money
Stonewater
Amazon
PwC
Legal and General

OUTSTANDING EMPLOYER

BP
BT
Lloyds Banking Group
HSBC
Jacobs
KPMG
NatWest
Macquarie
Stonewater
UBS

SOCIAL IMPACT

Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers
HSBC UK and The Prince’s Trust | Black participants in The Trust’s Enterprise programme
Aleto10, in partnership with OVO
State Street Partnership with ELBA Parity Project
Diversity Project's #TalkAboutBlack
'The Guestlist' - The Elephant Room (nominated by Burberry)
UpSkill Digital
Generation Change by Paramount
Templeton & Partners (Nadeem Ahmad)
Career Partnership by BP

The full list of categories and nominees is available at .

Zoe Delaney

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