TV presenters and Ealing childhood friends Angellica Bell and Konnie Huq will be discussing their successful careers in children's television at an upcoming Pitzhanger Manor event.

Both Angellica and Konnie grew up in Ealing and attended school together, before going on to build successful media careers.

During the 'Pitzhanger Perspectives' event next week, they will discuss their journey into presenting and how they both ended up conquering children's TV.

Both presenters also share a connection to local politics, with Konnie's sister the Ealing Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq and Angellica's father the politician Julian Bell, former leader of Ealing Council.

Konnie Huq, who studied economics at Cambridge, is famously the longest-serving female presenter of kids classic Blue Peter, having presented it from 1997 to 2008.

She also co-wrote an episode for the Black Mirror series and is now a best-selling children's author, having published her first story 'Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World' in 2019.

After attending Notting Hill & Ealing High School, Angellica Bell studied politics at the University of the West of England, before going into TV.

Angellica is a twice Bafta-nominated TV presenter, with six years presenting CBBC, to being one of the longest serving reporters on The One Show.

She also co-presenting The Martin Lewis Money Show, won Celebrity MasterChef in 2017 and has a cookbook out aimed at young people called 'Fantastic Eats! and How to Cook them!'.

The online event will be chaired by Pitzhanger Trustee and former Controller of BBC1 Lorraine Heggessey, who worked with the pair when she was Head of Children's BBC.

Lorraine Heggessey was the first woman to run BBC1, where she brought Strictly Come Dancing to our screens and was named by GQ as the third most influential woman in the UK.

She has since run talkbackThames, The Royal Foundation and is currently advisor to Channel 4's Growth Fund, as well as being Chair of The Grierson Trust.

The online event is part of the Pitzhanger Perspectives, a new series of conversations with contemporary thinkers run by the manor and gallery.

It will take place next Tuesday, 2 November from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.

Tickets are £7 - £10.

Book a ticket via the Pitzhanger website.