Konnie Huq is a writer, TV presenter and screenwriter. She is best known as a presenter on shows including The Xtra Factor and Blue Peter, and holds the record of longest-serving female presenter on the latter. She is married to the writer Charlie Brooker, with whom she has two sons, and co-wrote the second episode of Black Mirror with him. Her first book for children, Cookie! And the Most Annoying Boy in the World, was published in 2020, and she has since published two further instalments of the series.