a researcher for ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby show. She then moved to the BBC where she worked at On the Record. While working at the BBC, she completed a master's degree at Birkbeck, University of London. From 2003 to 2010, she was the political editor for GMTV. On 2 June 2020, De Piero was announced as a presenter on the new Times Radio station. She presented her own show on Friday mornings, and co-presented the Sunday morning political show G&T alongside the former political editor of The Sun, Tom Newton Dunn. In April 2021 she announced that she was joining the weekday afternoon programme of GB News, a new TV channel. In August it was announced that De Piero would host a new political programme on the channel: The Briefing: Lunchtime with Gloria De Piero. In the Autumn 2022, De Piero launched her own GB News interview show on Sunday evenings, Gloria Meets, where she talks to politicians about their politics and personal lives. Parliamentary career 2010 to 2015 In February 2010, De Piero resigned as GMTV's political editor to seek selection as the Labour candidate for the Ashfield constituency in the 2010 general election. The candidacy became vacant following the announcement that the constituency's Labour MP, former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, would be stepping down at the election. On 21 March, she was selected as the party's candidate. De Piero was elected with a majority of 192 votes (reduced from 10,213 in 2005) after a 17.2% swing to the Liberal Democrats. During her election campaign, it was reported that she had posed for topless photographs for a modelling agency at the age of 15. Three years later, an unnamed news agency attempted to buy the photographs on behalf of a national newspaper. It later emerged that The Mail on Sunday had purchased the photographs in 2010. De Piero issued a legal warning to the newspaper that she had been underage when the photographs were taken and the negatives were returned to her with an apology. In October 2010, Labour leader Ed Miliband appointed De Piero as a shadow culture minister. In the 2011 reshuffle, De Piero became Shadow Minister for Crime Prevention, and in 2013, she was promoted to the shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities. In 2012, De Piero held a national tour called 'Why Do People Hate Me?' designed to discover why voters were so