Ore Oduba is a speaker, host, podcaster, actor, and award-winning broadcaster who, alongside his many career accolades, has become a trusted voice on the issues of addiction, trauma, suicide, and mental health.
Ore Oduba – Mental Health Speaker
Despite his professional success, years of internal turmoil and deteriorating mental health led Ore to a point where he contemplated taking his own life.
From there, faced with his own mortality, Ore began again. A journey of healing, learning, and profound self-discovery set him free from a life built on fear, shame, and external expectation—but not without personal tragedy along the way. Within 18 months, Ore lost both his father and then his sister to suicide, devastating reminders of the fragility of life. Determined to carry the torch of his loved ones, his mission became clear: we only get one chance—to live our fullest, most authentic lives.
Ore’s inspirational personal story takes audiences through his early years of childhood trauma, the crushing blow of a failed elite sporting career, and his eventual rise to fronting national coverage of the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup. His experiences span holding conversations with HM Queen Elizabeth II, surviving life in a war zone, and being pushed to his physical and mental limits at the mercy of the military elite, the Special Armed Forces.
Ore Oduba – Live Host and Broadcaster
From one big stage to the next, Ore made his Saturday Night presenting debut in 2018 as host of ‘And They’re Off’ for Sports Relief and Sports Relief itself. He is also the presenter of the BBC show ‘Hardball‘. This marks the latest in a burgeoning list of high-profile credits, including regular presenting slots on ‘The One Show‘, ITV’s ‘This Morning‘ and BBC Radio 2.
Ore is also an established name on BBC2, reaching an audience of over 8 million each week. On the radio, Ore can regularly be heard in the Afternoons or settling listeners into their Sunday nights as a cover for Claudia Winkleman.
At home as an entertainer, Ore’s authority and reliability, coupled with countless hours of live broadcasting under his belt, have also seen him front some of the biggest national events, from the Queen’s 90th Birthday celebrations and BBC Sport’s award-winning coverage of the Olympic Games in Rio to One Love Manchester for BBC1. The tribute concert for victims of the Manchester Arena bombing was the most-watched TV event of 2017.
What’s more, 8 million people tuned in live on BBC1 as Ore delivered an all-singing, all-dancing Gene Kelly tribute on a record-breaking night for Children in Need in 2017. A month later, Ore had the honour of singing at the world-famous Royal Albert Hall, headlining the Christmas with the Stars Concert in aid of Bloodwise.
Like many of the UK’s leading broadcasters, Ore’s varied and versatile career began in Children’s television before he was snapped up by BBC Breakfast and BBC Sport.
Six successful years based at Manchester’s Media City UK also saw Ore Oduba join the presenting ranks at BBC Radio 5 Live.
Ore Oduba – Acting
He earned his first screen acting credit in the BBC1 primetime drama Noughts + Crosses.
Ore starred in the UK and Ireland tour of Pretty Woman. He previously played Brad Majors in the 50th anniversary production of The Rocky Horror Show at London’s Peacock Theatre, following a successful UK tour. He made his West End debut as Aaron Fox in the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains at Wyndham’s Theatre. He has also played the iconic role of Teen Angel in Grease, and has led pantomimes at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and Fairfield Halls in Croydon.
