Will Best
Presenter
Presenting
Will Best has a contagious passion for broadcasting and has presented extensively across music, entertainment and factual. An engaging and hugely exciting broadcaster, Will has already gained a wealth of experience in TV & Radio.
Will started his career on some of the UK's biggest youth music programmes. These include MTV, T4, ‘Freshly Squeezed’, 4Music, and Channel 4's coverage of Snow Bombing and iTunes Festival. All this experience led to him being personally picked by Simon Cowell to present his new online talent format ‘You Generation’, a YouTube show featuring celebrity interviews, music acts and a monthly talent contest.
In 2017 Will co-presented ITV1’s Sunday night prime time entertainment show ‘Dance Dance Dance’ alongside Alesha Dixon.
Will’s broadcasting and journalistic pedigree came to the fore when he presented the highly rated BBC Three show ‘Is This Rape? Sex On Trial’.
He also hosted CBBC’s biggest ever commission, the incredible ‘Airmaggedon’ showcasing his versatility. Will was also one of the hosts of Sky Arts flagship visual arts programme, The Art Show. Other factual work has included Channel 5’s Classic Car Show as well presenting a series of 3 documentaries for Channel 5.
Will has recently presented on a variety of platforms across TV, Radio and online, including Build, BBC Radio 1, Hits Radio, Heart FM, and 4Music.
He became the face of Red Bull Soap Box Race in 2019, which is the most successful branded content series in UK TV history. Over 1b minutes of RBSB Race was watched on British TV during 2020 alone.
As well as being an accomplished broadcaster, Will is also a creative and talented writer who recently co-wrote, co-produced and featured in BBC iPlayer’s recent comedy – What Is Music Videos. Will is currently putting pen to paper on a new BBC comedy series for broadcast.
With his deep rooted love of music, Will has presented coverage of some of the world’s biggest music festivals, from Ultra Miami, South Korea and Croatia, to Tomorrowland and Bestival. Will has also hosted from Primavera, Roskilde and Montreaux Jazz Festivalas part of Red bull’s live cultural coverage.
Will also has an entrepreneur streak in him having launched his own drink brand, Bloody Drinks at the end of 2019, with an exclusive retail listing at Selfridges. In the year since then, he has grown the business to include several other premium stockists, some top restaurants and bars, and most recently Sainsburys supermarkets.
A natural, warm and comedic presenter who is also booked regularly as a corporate host and has worked with a number of blue-chip brands.