Presenter and Judges

Chris Hollins - Presenter

From the USA Masters Golf to the World Cup, to Royal Ascot and Wimbledon, Chris Hollins is recognised as one of television's most popular sports presenters.

Chris can be seen on air Monday to Thursday mornings as the main sports reporter on BBC Breakfast and is also a regular co-host of the show. He is also one of the presenters of BBC1's Watchdog as well as Weather Live, Dirty Tricks of the Tradesmen, Cash in the Attic for BBC1 and Cash in the Celebrity Attic for BBC2 and presents Find My Past for Yesterday He is probably best known as the winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2009.

Before moving to BBC Breakfast, Chris was sports presenter for BBC News 24 and also reported for Grandstand and Football Focus. He began his career at Sky Sports in 1994, followed by spells at Channel One, GMTV, Meridian and Channel 5.

A talented sportsman, Chris played football for QPR and Aldershot. (His father is John Hollins MBE, the former Chelsea, Arsenal, QPR and England footballer.) He also took part in Sky One's The Match, playing a full 90 minutes on the celebrity side.

After graduating from Tonbridge School in 1989, he attended the University of Durham and later Oxford University where he gained Blues in both cricket and football.

Chris has appeared in a cameo role in the feature film Run Fat Boy Run; an experience that he thoroughly enjoyed.

Always up for a challenge, Chris has taken part in BBC1's Celebrity MasterChef and learnt a whole ice skating routine for BBC1's New Year's Eve celebrations! 2009 brought a whole new challenge however, as Chris took part in Series 7 of Strictly Come Dancing for BBC1. With 16 couples, 14 weeks, 654 hours of training and 17 dances to learn, Chris was the only contestant to never be in the dance-off and his popularity with the public finally led to him lifting the glitterball trophy! Chris also took part in the Strictly tour at various venues around the UK in early 2010.

In 2011 Chris was also proud to be part of the Royal Wedding coverage team for the BBC.

Charlotte Mullins - Hanging Commitee Judge

Charlotte Mullins is an art historian, critic and broadcaster. She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Sotheby's Institute in London and is currently completing her PhD. Charlotte has written widely on contemporary art and her book on figurative painting, Painting People, reveals her ongoing interest in representations of the human form. She has written for the Telegraph and Financial Times and appeared as a regular guest on BBC arts programmes such as The Culture Show and Front Row. She was a judge for the 2009 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery and has been a selector for many exhibitions including the Jerwood Sculpture Prize, the Hunting Art Prize and the Discerning Eye exhibition. A former editor of Art Review and the V&A Magazine, she has written ten books on art and culture including two art books for children, published under the name Charlie Ayres. She is currently working on a follow-up book to Painting People for Thames & Hudson.

Charlotte says: "I don't judge art with preconceived favourite styles or media. I do have pet hates however: one is decoration masquerading as art - art should never be wallpaper - and another is when one art-form apes another for no reason."

David Lee - Hanging Commitee Judge

David Lee is an art critic and historian. He is currently editor of the satirical art magazine The Jackdaw, which he founded in 2000 and produces single-handed. Prior to this he was editor of Art Review for eight years. He also contributes regularly to newspapers such as The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and the Daily Mirror and is regularly interviewed on television and radio programmes. David studied History of Art at Nottingham University and University College, London, and was a tutor in Photography at the Royal College of Art. He has judged many national and local art competitions including the Hunting, NatWest, Royal Watercolour Society Awards and was a selector of The Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.

He says of his own magazine: "By and large it's pretty critical of many things including the art establishment. It combines serious commentary and slapstick entertainment while publishing opinions other art magazines are too restrained to entertain. Contemporary art is a lot more diverse than the art establishment would have us believe."

Roy Bolton - Hanging Commitee Judge

Roy Bolton is an art historian and dealer. After studying in Ireland, San Francisco and Oxford he took over one of the Old Master paintings departments for Christie's auction house in London, where he valued, researched and sold many thousands of paintings over the last decade. As an auction house expert and art dealer Roy daily critiques art works to assess their artistic and commercial merits, often rediscovering unnamed old masters only through the quality of the art they left behind. He has curated many exhibitions, among them the Young Masters Art Prize. As a journalist Roy has written widely on contemporary art and as an art historian he has written half a dozen books on the history of paintings and artists which have been translated into languages around the world. Roy is currently producing a documentary on the Chinese dissident artist Ai Wiewei.

He said recently: "I do not have 'dos and don'ts' about how or why art is created, so long as there’s tangible substance to it. Art isn't just about being creative, or about creating an international mega product that will sell for millions. Art can be anything and everything, except insubstantial. If there isn’t a stitch to the Emperor’s new clothes, I’ll be the first to tell him."