Ed Leigh (born 15 July 1975) is a presenter on the BBC2 show Ski Sunday during the winter and Red Bull X-Fighters World Series for Dave (TV channel) alongside the social hand grenade that is Rob Warner (mountain biker) in the summer. Ed can still be seen every now and again on Channel 4's RTS award winning series Freesports On 4 where he first established himself. Over the last eight years Ed has built up a diverse portfolio of work ranging from Ed vs. Spencer for SKY 1 to commentating on the Winter Olympics for the BBC. Leighs' career started presenting ‘Trailer Park’ on Turners CNX channel CNX, alongside Christian Stevenson, his long-time collaborator. The duo went on to present a series for the Extreme Sports Channel titled Legends of the Extreme.

Previous to his broadcast career, Ed had a diverse CV that included professional snowboarding, Journalism, event management, cleaning mega yachts and windsurf instructing. However in 1997 after a chance meeting in London he centred his efforts on Laughing Gear, a commentary and cabaret company set up with good friend Christian Stevenson. An intricate knowledge of the action sports world and off-the-cuff comedy has established them as an arguably unique commodity in the events market.

After doing the voice over for the [[Extreme Sports Channel]'s 2004 Ed followed the Rally as a hitch hiker/presenter for 2005 and "Gumball 2006: Around the world in 8 days".

In 2007, Ed became co-presenter of the BBC's Ski Sunday series with Graham Bell after his commentary at the Turin Winter Olympics in 2006 helped bring the snowboarding to life.

He appeared on World Rally :Australia 2009 on Dave and in the Autumn of 2009 lent his voice to the O'Neill Cold Water Classic Series.

Leigh started his snowboarding career working in Chalford based snowboard shop, Noahs Ark. After spending five years snowboarding in the resort of Val d'Isere a knee injury forced him to take a season off and he was offered a job as teaboy at White Lines snowboarding magazine, which he had been contributing to on a freelance basis. Six months later he was editor of the magazine which opened the doors to other media opportunities. ^[1] Since then Ed has nurtured his career in Television to its current position, where he co-presents both Ski Sunday and High Altitude which ran for the winter of 2009 on BBC2 with Graham Bell during the winter and then during the summer follows

The spring of 2009 also saw Ed appearing on My Life as an Animal on BBC3 where he lived with Dogs for a week.

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