June 2021, she announced live on BBC Breakfast that she would be stepping down from the role later that year to concentrate on other interests. Her final appearance on the show was on 15 September 2021. From 21 April 2008, Minchin presented a weekday programme called Missing Live along with Rav Wilding. The programme was shown at 9:15 am after BBC Breakfast on BBC One and ran for four weeks. The show returned for a second four-week run from 16 March 2009, and again in March 2010, highlighting both new cases and those previously featured with updates. Minchin and Colin Jackson presented the Sunday morning show Sunday Life on BBC One in 2008. From 2 November 2009, Minchin presented four weeks of live broadcasts of Real Rescues along with Nick Knowles. Minchin also presented In the Know, a BBC sports magazine programme on Saturday mornings on BBC One during the 2004 Athens Olympics alongside co-presenter John Inverdale. In April 2010, Minchin co-presented The One Show for a week alongside Chris Hollins while regular hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley were unavailable. She covered again when the show returned in July 2010 for two weeks alongside Matt Baker and one episode with Matt Allwright. Minchin and Gethin Jones presented the documentary series Crime and Punishment, which began on BBC One on 12 March 2012. For a time from November 2012, Minchin was a co-presenter of Radio 5 Live's Drive programme with Peter Allen. She has worked as an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 4's daily consumer programme You and Yours. Minchin has played herself reading the news in three BBC series: spy drama Spooks, crime drama Silent Witness and the Torchwood mini-series Children of Earth. In 2016, Minchin competed in Celebrity MasterChef on BBC One, finishing second. In June 2021, BBC announced that Minchin was to leave BBC Breakfast after almost 20 years of working on the show. In November 2021, Minchin was announced as a contestant on the twenty-first series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and finished in seventh. Awards In March 2014, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Chester. Personal life Louise married David Minchin in 1998. The couple have two daughters and live in Chester, Cheshire. She is an amateur triathlete, and qualified as a member of the 2015 Great Britain Age-Group Triathlon Team (45–49 age group). She