Ashley John-Baptiste is an award-winning BBC broadcaster, making regular reports for 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 brand new 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 new documentary about siblings separated in care. Split Up In Care: Life Without Siblings premiered on BBC Three in March 2021.

Ashley began his BBC journalism career as a reporter for BBC2's Victoria Derbyshire programme, covering the Grenfell disaster and making original BBC films on issues ranging from interfaith foster care to racism on UK university campuses. This culminated in Ashley being shortlisted for the RTS Young Talent Of The Year 2018 award. Proof of his ability and growing popularity came when he was asked to co-host The One Show in December 2019 with Angelica Bell. Ashley is now firmly part of The One Show family as a regular reporter for the programme, with recent films covering the issues of adoption, pregnancy, homelessness and care.

Ashley also hosted BBC Radio 1Xtra's first-ever investigative documentary podcast series Legends Fall in the Making: The Story of Juice WRLD, Pop Smoke, XXXTentacion & Lil Peep – available on BBC Sounds and iPlayer. In this 8-part series Ashley delves into the life stories and careers of four American rappers who all tragically suffered premature deaths. The series won the Silver award in the Best Arts & Culture Podcast category at the British Podcast Awards 2022.

In June 2022 Ashley was the lead reporter on The Mall for the four days of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations on BBC One and the BBC News channels.

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 inspirational speaker who shares his hard-hitting and inspiration story of navigating through the care system. Ashley is an ambassador for The Fostering Network charity and a truly inspirational public speaker. He is the founder of the online charity Be Inspired, supporting young people leaving care and helping them fulfil their aspirations.

Ashley's first book, Looked After: A Childhood in Care was published by Hodder & Stoughton, 13th June 2024.