Ashley John-Baptiste is an award-winning broadcaster, making regular reports for BBC One's Morning Live, Sunday Morning Live and The One Show. He has co-presented three series of For Love Or Money and currently presents Expert Witness for BBC One Daytime. Ashley also co-hosts Con or Cure with Dr Xand, a consumer health show investigating health scams and scares; sifting the facts from the fakes and helping shine a light on bad medicine.

He fronted the BBC Three documentary Care Home Kids: Looking For Love (produced by Special Edition Films). Other recent BBC films presented by Ashley include My Life In Care and My Life Without Skin, as well as a documentary about siblings separated in care, which premiered on BBC Three in March 2021.

Across his journalism career with the BBC, Ashley has covered stories such as the Grenfell disaster, interfaith foster care, The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, as well as racism on UK university campuses to name a few. This culminated in Ashley being shortlisted for the RTS Young Talent Of The Year 2018 award. Ashley is now firmly part of The One Show family as a regular reporter for the programme, with recent films covering the issues of social mobility, homelessness and care.

In February 2023, Ashley was nominated for a 2023 Broadcast Award in Best Daytime Programme for Expert Witness. He was also honoured at the BBC News Awards 2023 for his programme Split Up in Care: Life Without Siblings, which was shortlisted in the Most Impactful Journalism category.

Ashley grew up in South London, where at the age of four he was taken into care. He grew up being shuttled between foster families and children's homes and moved primary school three times. A bright student, he battled to win a place at Cambridge University where he graduated with a 2:1 in History. Whilst at Cambridge, Ashley acted as a mentor to other students who grew up in care.

Ashley is an motivational speaker who shares his hard-hitting and inspirational story of navigating through the care system. He is the founder of Be Inspired events, supporting young people leaving care and helping them fulfil their aspirations. In June 2025, Ashley appeared on the panel for Crisis of Care at Glastonbury Left Field.

Ashley's first book, Looked After: A Childhood in Care (published by Hodder & Stoughton, 13th June 2024) was nominated for The Hatchards 2024 Best First Biography Prize.