Fighter Charlie's got lot to shout about..

CHARLIE Webster has been through more than most people can imagine. She overcame abuse, sexism and the class divide to reach the top of her game as a sports presenter. Then in 2016, doctors gave her just 24 hours to live when a rare form of malaria left her in a coma. Here the broadcaster - who's just been honoured with an MBE - tells MEG JORSH about her journey so far...

- MEG JORSH

PRESENTER Charlie Webster is not a woman who gives up easily.

Just look at her collection of medals - including 16 marathons, three Ironman Triathlons and a 3,000-mile charity cycle from London to Rio.

She's always been driven to succeed, even under the most difficult circumstances.

At first, that meant breaking into the male-dominated world of sports broadcasting, despite a lack of support from those around her.

“I was picked on because I was Northern,’ she says. “I was picked on because I was working class. I was picked on because I was a woman!’

She soon proved the naysayers wrong, with an illustrious career that has included work for Sky Sports, ESPN and Channel 4. She even made history in 2014 as the first female boxing presenter.

“I took it on as if it was my mission’ she says. “To be a female in sport, to be a voice. But not just a voice as a woman, but also a voice that comes from Sheffield, with a teenage mum.

“No money, homeless twice as a kid. Like, literally was told that she wouldn’t be anything. I think that was very much a driver for me, of feeling like I didn’t have a voice”