found on the islands and in the seas around. In July 2017, she co-presented Wild Alaska Live with Matt Baker and Steve Backshall on BBC One. In 2018, Bonnin presented a one-off documentary for BBC One called Drowning In Plastic, looking at the problem of marine plastic pollution. In 2020 she presented a programme looking at different species of Penguins titled Penguins: Meet the Family. Personal life Bonnin grew up with her older sister Benni, while she said that "I was extremely close to my granny, who passed away in 2003." She has moved back to London. Bonnin featured on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? on 8 December 2016. In the programme she traced the ancestry of both her parents on the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Martinique. Bonnin is a role model for EDF Energy's Pretty Curious programme, which is aimed at encouraging teenage girls to study science-based subjects at school. She has said in a 2016 interview, "FHM offered me a spread but I said no." On 5 January 2021, Bonnin announced that her mother Bonnie Murray had died over the Christmas 2020 period after contracting COVID-19. Filmography Television References External links 1976 births 20th-century Irish women singers Alumni of the Royal Veterinary College Alumni of Trinity College Dublin British women television presenters The Den (TV programme) presenters French biochemists French conservationists French emigrants to Ireland French people of Indian descent French people of Martiniquais descent French people of Portuguese descent French people of Trinidad and Tobago descent French pop singers French women biologists Living people RTÉ television presenters Science communicators Singers from Dublin (city) Top of the Pops presenters Zoological Society of London