Yasmin Bodalbhai is an ITV News presenter and reporter whose work spans regional broadcasting, national news and investigations. She previously reported and presented for ITV News Central, and her journalism on children’s access to mental-health support helped bring her work wider recognition. In 2021, she won the Asian Media Awards’ Regional Journalist of the Year award.
Her reporting has covered flood damage, driving tests during lockdown and efforts to protect healthcare workers during the pandemic. ITV also named her as a presenter for its 2018 Christmas lights programme from Leicester.
From newsroom training to ITV News Central
Specialist television website TV Newsroom’s career profile dates Bodalbhai’s arrival at ITN as a trainee to October 2014 and her appointment as an assistant news editor to July 2015. It describes a subsequent five-year period reporting and presenting for ITV News Central in Birmingham, followed by a year reporting in northern England.
Those roles cover different parts of television journalism. News editing involves the organisation and preparation of coverage; reporting takes the journalist out to gather material; presenting brings the programme together for viewers. Bodalbhai’s career includes work on both sides of the studio desk.
An ITV announcement provides a specific example of her Central presenting work. On 22 November 2018, the broadcaster named Bodalbhai and Matt Teale as the presenters of a special programme from Leicester for the city’s Christmas lights switch-on. The announcement promised live coverage of the switch-on and a look behind the scenes.
Her regional assignments also included the pandemic response. ITV’s April 2020 report on efforts to protect frontline healthcare workers credited Bodalbhai’s reporting on work in Leicester and Birmingham. These assignments show the range of a regional newsroom, from community occasions to urgent public-service stories.
The Children in Crisis investigation
A defining piece of Bodalbhai’s Central work was Children in Crisis: Are We Failing Young Minds?, a 2021 investigation into access to children’s mental-health services.
In her published account for ITV, Bodalbhai explained that the reporting began with a request for viewers’ experiences. Hundreds of parents responded. Their accounts described difficulties obtaining referrals, lengthy waits and the effects on family life.
The investigation connected those experiences with the people and institutions involved in providing support. It included families, GPs and other professionals, alongside responses from NHS England’s Midlands team and the government. Its subject was not simply the availability of crisis care, but also the help offered before a child reached that point.
The reporting examined what happened between asking for help and receiving it. Its figures and policy commitments belong to 2021 and should not be read as a current guide to services.
Her individual award and the programme’s RTS recognition
Bodalbhai received the 2021 Asian Media Awards’ Regional Journalist of the Year honour at the ceremony on 29 October. The award organisers highlighted her children’s mental-health investigation alongside other reporting, including driving tests during lockdown and flooding at a Muslim cemetery.
Her comments that evening emphasised the newsroom behind the investigation: “You did it as part of a team.” That acknowledgement helps explain an important distinction in her awards record.
- Individual honour: Bodalbhai won Regional Journalist of the Year at the 2021 Asian Media Awards.
- National programme honour: Children in Crisis, credited to ITV News Central, won Nations and Regions News at the 2022 RTS Television Journalism Awards.
- Regional programme honour: the investigation was also named News Programme of the Year at the 2022 RTS Midlands Awards. The same record lists Bodalbhai among the Journalist of the Year nominees; David Gregory-Kumar was the winner.
These are connected achievements, but they are not interchangeable. The RTS programme awards recognise the production, while the Asian Media Awards title was awarded to Bodalbhai herself.
National news and more recent London reporting
TV Newsroom records a move into her later ITN role in November 2022 and credits her with presenting ITV’s lunchtime and weekend bulletins. Her verified Muck Rack profile also identifies her as an ITV News presenter and reporter.
The ITV archive shows national reporting before that November milestone. In August 2022, Bodalbhai spoke to three people for a feature about loneliness and the ways they responded to it. The report considered personal experiences alongside the role of community connections and befriending schemes.
Her more recent work includes ITV London reporting. On 10 February 2026, ITV credited her video report on the closure of Albert Bridge to motor traffic after safety concerns. The dated report is an example of her transport and local-affairs coverage, rather than a statement about the bridge’s status today.
Taken together, these credits show a career that continues to include field reporting as well as studio presentation. The stories vary in scale, but they give viewers concrete examples of her work beyond a job title.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Yasmin Bodalbhai?
She is a television journalist, presenter and reporter associated with ITV News. Her earlier work includes ITV News Central, and ITV’s archive also credits her with national and London reports.
Where does Yasmin Bodalbhai appear on Wikipedia?
Her name appears in Wikipedia’s list of ITV News on-air staff. That staff listing is separate from this MoNews biography. ITV’s own reports and the awards organisations’ records provide direct evidence for the main career details above.
What is her best-documented individual award?
The Asian Media Awards named her Regional Journalist of the Year in 2021. The official winner announcement identifies her as an ITV Central reporter and presenter at the time.
What are her age and family details?
This profile does not establish her date of birth or marital status. Those details should not be inferred from photographs, education timelines or unreferenced online biographies.
Final Thoughts
Bodalbhai’s public career is best understood through the work itself: regional presenting, investigations into access to services, national features and London reporting. The distinction between her personal journalism award and the honours earned by Children in Crisis gives a more precise picture of that career than a list of awards without context.
Image credits
Asian Media Awards, 2021. Used with permission. Featured image: two photographs cropped and combined; MoNews logo added. Inline photograph: MoNews logo added.