Ashley John-Baptise is a young BBC journalist and presenter.

Soon after quitting The X Factor, Baptiste was directed a BBC Three documentary Care Home Kids: Looking For Love. The documentary’s commissioner encouraged Ashley to apply for a Creative Access internship with the BBC News Channel. He joined as an intern and eventually, he was offered a staff job.

Ashely John-Baptiste has presented further BBC documentaries on interfaith foster care, racism on university campuses, and the bullying faced by children with facial disfigurements. For which he was shortlisted for the Royal Television Society’s Young Talent Of The Year Award in 2018. He is an individual with great perseverance and compassion.