Hot Shots 2022: Tir Dhondy

Sex, drugs and illegal raves: it’s all grist to the mill for Tir Dhondy, who has won audiences of millions due to her fearlessness in getting thrown in at the deep end in alternative communities and controversial sub-cultures.

Her first Vice investigation pulled no punches in exposing the ease with which children are buying drugs over Snapchat. Dhondy took a deeper dive into the drug culture as producer and host of docs for Vice’s High Society strand, including Guerilla Growers, about large-scale cannabis firms hiding in plain sight, and met older users of recreational drugs in Gravers: The UK’s Geriatric Ravers.

Her highest-profile report was an episode of Crimewave exposing how thieves use Snapchat and Instagram to rob influencers – including a member of the gang who robbed Kim Kardashian during Paris Fashion Week in 2016. The interview made waves across major online and print news outlets across the UK and US.

Dhondy also produces YouTube show Cooking With Amelia, which uses celebrity cooking demonstrations to raise awareness of the work of food surplus distributor FareShare.

Next up for Vice is a one-hour doc filmed with a ‘conscious tantric sex community’ in Thailand, described as Dhondy’s most ambitious, immersive and impressive work to date.

Vice Media Group head of video Milène Larsson says: “From producing to presenting, she continues to go from strength to strength and has the rare gift of knowing how to make content that engages a young audience.”