Career
She has a first class degree in English from the University of Manchester. She is probably best known as a presenter on United Kingdom television and radio, originally for sports shows. She spent three years as one of the female presenters for United Kingdom Independent Television"s Formula One coverage (the other being Louise Goodman) and she also presented coverage of the Tour de France.
She spent another three seasons presenting coverage of United States National Basketball Association games in the United Kingdom. In 2002, she began presenting entertainment sections for Granada"s This Morning and, in 2003, travel reporting for the Travel Channel.
From 2004, she spent two years co-presenting a Saturday morning radio programme on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Five Live with Eamonn Holmes and also presented sixty-four episodes of Taste, a daily food programme on Sky3. Her other jobs include modelling – where she stands at five-foot ten inches – and journalism, where she writes for newspapers such as the Independent, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
She broke with Formula One racing coverage with the publication of her book The Pits: The Real World of Formula 1 in July 2004, which described widespread sexism in the sport. In 2010, Turner appeared in Mr.
Yin Presents, the fourth season finale of Psychology.
Her main charity interest is in sexual health and sexual politics, where she is a patron of the Family Planning Association (Faculty of Public Affairs). She is a former model with London"s Elite Premier agency. She appeared in FHM"s "Sexiest Women" list at position 43 in 2001 and 88 in 2002.
She is currently (2009) studying for a Diploma in Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy.
