Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott
McDermott in 2019
Born
Zara Nicole McDermott

(1996-12-14) 14 December 1996
Havering, London, England
Occupations
  • Television personality
  • model
  • singer
  • television presenter
Years active2009–present
EmployerBBC
Notable workList of documentaries
Television

Zara Nicole McDermott (born 14 December 1996) is an English reality television personality. After working for the Department for Education as a policy advisor, she became a contestant on the fourth series of Love Island (2018) and subsequently appeared on The X Factor: Celebrity (2019) and Made in Chelsea (2019–2020).

McDermott has gone on to present her own BBC documentaries, including: Revenge Porn (2021), Uncovering Rape Culture (2021) and Disordered Eating (2022) based on her own experiences, as well as Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge (2023), The Idaho Murders: Trial by TikTok (2024) and Inside Ibiza (2024). In 2022, she presented the dating series Love in the Flesh on BBC Three and a year later, she competed on the twenty-first series of Strictly Come Dancing.