Chi Chi Izundu is an award-winning radio journalist that is in London, United Kingdom. She is a news and entertainment reporter at BBC News. ^{[4] [1]}

Izundu attended Maria Fidelis Convent School from 1991-1998, where she received 10 GCSE's and 3 A Levels, getting A-C grades. ^[4]

She went on to attend City, University of London graduating in 2003, with a Postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism. ^[4]

Chi Chi Izundu started her career in 1997 as a columnist for Girl About Town Magazine. Her column was called "Single Girl," in which she wrote reflective observations on life as a single woman living in London. ^[4]

During her time writing this column, she also freelanced for Cosmopolitan and earned her first radio broadcasting position: a Broadcast Assistant for BBC Radio Manchester (Greater Manchester Radio); the radio station is now known as BBC Radio Manchester. ^[4]

In April 2001, Izundu became a Broadcast Assistant for BBC London 94.9.

She took part in assiting for shows among the likes of the Jon Gaunt Show, The Saturday Sports Show, and the Vanessa Feltz show. ^[4] She became a producer for the radio station in July 2002. ^[4]

From 2002 to 2005, Izundu was a freelance reporter for several publishers, including Sky News, ITN, and Virgin Radio. She reported on several events including crime, entertainment and showbiz stories. ^[4] She also freelanced at Sky News and worked at ITN before returning to the BBC as a reporter for BBC Radio 1Xtra.^[17]

Izundu first joined BBC News in September 2005.^[4] While working for BBC Radio 1Xtra she presented two hour news magazine show, TXU and was the entertainment presenter on the Trevor Nelson breakfast show. She then joined the BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat entertainment news team, breaking a number of big stories, including doing a week long expose on the ticketing industry which contributed to Newsbeat winning a Sony Gold award.^[17]

In 2014, she became one of BBC Three's 60 Seconds News presenters, who present the news on BBC Three television nightly. Later, she appeared as a reporter on BBC's the Victoria Derbyshire program.^[4]

As well as breaking a story on the controversial police risk assessment form 696, Chi also exposed the connection between Grime music and gang violence in the UK, how Robbie Williams management were charging fans higher prices for tickets on resale sites, despite signing a public notice against them historically. Chi has also worked for the BBC’s Newsgathering team, performing as a Correspondent on a variety of stories for their flagship news programmes, the Six and Ten o’clock evening news, including travelling to Jamaica to cover the Windrush scandal, how Xanax was being used by children as young as 11, plus the Mercury prize winners.^[17]

In April 2012, Chi Chi Izundu began writing a women's fiction novel calledThe Indian Spring. ^[4] The story is about a woman named Karen Whelan who meets a man named Matt online.