Kanak "Konnie" Huq is a British television presenter of Bangladeshi descent. She is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter.
Huq is of Bangladeshi descent, her parents moved to England from a village in Pabna, west of Bangladesh and she was born in Hammersmith, but grew up in Ealing, London.
Huq is best known for presenting the BBC children's television programme Blue Peter, which she joined on 1 December 1997. One of her most memorable early moments on Blue Peter was visiting Bangladesh, and speaking to members of her extended family whom she had not seen for many years. In the programme's 2004 "Summer Expedition" to India, Huq became an extra in a Bollywood film, and practised dancing alongside its stars. In 2008, during her last programme, she broke a Guinness World Record by managing to pin 17 Blue Peter Badges onto fellow presenter Andy Akinwolere's shirt in a minute.
Currently, she is a presenter of Guinness World Records Smashed with Steve Jones on Sky TV. Viewers in Asia can watch it on AXN.
In 2008, Huq reportedly turned down a six-figure sum to pose naked for Playboy magazine; she also refused to pose topless for Loaded magazine.