After supplementing her income as a racing instructor at Silverstone Circuit, she also undertook a dual career in journalism where she worked on numerous British motoring magazines including Auto Express, What Car?

She was the assistant launch editor and mechanic in Max Power magazine, referred to simply as "VBH.

In 2004, she presented ITV's coverage of the British Touring Car Championship, in which her brother Charlie briefly competed in 2004; and from February 2006 the ten-part series Wrecks To Riches for Discovery Real Time.

[6] She has recorded voice overs for radio and television advertisements, including Wrigleys Extra Thin Ice and Sony Centres.

Butler-Henderson was also a narrator for National Geographic Channel (UK)'s science documentary entitled I Didn't Know That.

Butler-Henderson was part of a professional panel of six independent judges including the Telegraph's Honest John[10] and motoring editor of Which?

[3][15] At Autosport International on 15 January 2011, Butler-Henderson's Fifth Gear co-presenter Jason Plato announced that she would not be able to attend as she was having a baby girl.