Nicholas Radbourn Hewer[2] (born 17 February 1944) is a retired British television presenter, company director (2010) and former public relations consultant from Swindon, England.

The family lived in Old Town and Hewer was educated at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school in County Kildare, Ireland.

[citation needed] Hewer's status as a businessman and public figure has been used in various ways; for example, in 2012, he was one of many celebrities to help promote the change in the UK pension scheme to automatic enrolment.

[11] On 9 January 2012, Hewer became the new host of the Channel 4 game show Countdown taking over from the sports presenter Jeff Stelling.

In July 2012, Hewer presented a four-part series on BBC Two called The Farm Fixer, in which he assisted farmers in Northern Ireland in diversifying.

In 2015, Hewer presented a BBC Two programme called Nick and Margaret: The Trouble with our Trains with Mountford, in which they explore all the problems and insights of Britain's Railways.

[24] While appearing on Question Time in 2017, he said that he had supported the party since Harold Wilson, but was critical of the leaderships of Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband.

In January 2019, he said that he would no longer vote for Labour, after his Countdown co-presenter Rachel Riley received abuse on social media for speaking out against anti-Semitism within the party.

[1] On 2 November 2012, Hewer received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Kingston University in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to business and entrepreneurship".