It’s a weekday morning in Britain, long before most of the country has properly woken up, and Ellie Costello is normally live on air. She is calm, cool and collected as she takes viewers through the first news of the day. In this position you have to be able to think straight under pressure, adjust your tone fast, and be in the moment when things are happening. To a lot of people she looks like someone they see every single day at breakfast. But behind the scenes her tale is one of constant ambition, newsroom discipline and a career formed by both reporting from the field and hosting from a desk.