BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given "for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity", and the winner is selected by BBC Sport. The award is named after the BBC sports presenter Helen Rollason, who died in August 1999 at the age of 43 after suffering from cancer for two years. Helen Rollason was the first female presenter of "Grandstand". After being diagnosed with cancer, she
Steve Jones (Welsh presenter) Steve Jones (Welsh presenter) Stephen Ashton Jones (born 16 March 1977) is a Welsh television presenter, who currently leads the presenting team on Channel 4 F1. He is best known as presenter of Channel 4's former teen schedule T4. In the United States, he is best known as the host of the first season of "The X Factor USA". Jones was born in Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taff and currently resides in both London and Los Angeles. After starting his career as a model for "Esquire", Jones moved into presenting, fronting such programmes as "The Pop Factory Awards" with Liz Fuller