If you’ve noticed Manon Lloyd missing from your GCN feed lately, you’re not alone. Fans across cycling media have been asking the same question — and a lot of them want a straight answer, not just guesswork.
This article covers exactly that. Who Manon is, when she left GCN, what we actually know about why, and what she’s been up to since. We’ll also flag clearly where the facts end and where speculation begins, because there’s been a bit of both floating around online.
Who Is Manon Lloyd?
Manon Lloyd isn’t just a TV presenter who happened to like bikes. She’s a former professional cyclist who genuinely competed at a high level before stepping in front of the camera.
Born in Carmarthen, Wales in 1996, Manon raced professionally for the UCI Women’s Team Drops between 2018 and 2019. Before that, she won bronze in the team pursuit at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships, representing Great Britain. She also placed third at the 2017 Matrix Fitness Grand Prix.
That racing background matters. When she started presenting at GCN in 2019, she wasn’t starting from scratch — she understood the sport from the inside. That credibility came through on screen, and it’s a big part of why viewers connected with her so easily.
The path from racing to media presenting is fairly common for athletes at her level. It gives them a platform, a steady income, and a way to stay close to the sport they love. For Manon, GCN turned out to be a natural fit — at least for a while.
Her Five Years at GCN
Manon joined the Global Cycling Network in 2019 and spent just over five years there before leaving on 30 July 2024.
During that time, she became one of GCN’s more recognizable faces. She hosted a wide mix of content — skills videos, training tips, race coverage, challenge-style entertainment, and a solid amount of women’s cycling features. That last part is worth noting, because women’s cycling content had historically been underserved on GCN, and Manon became a reliable go-to for it.
GCN’s format is very presenter-driven. Viewers don’t just tune in for the topic — they tune in for the person delivering it. That’s why when someone like Manon disappears from the lineup, people notice. It changes the feel of the channel in a way that swapping out a stock photo never would.
Over five years, she built up a genuine following. Fans weren’t just watching her videos — they were following her. That distinction matters when we think about what her departure actually meant for both her and GCN.
The Honest Answer to Why She Left
Here’s the straightforward truth: there is no detailed public statement from Manon Lloyd or GCN explaining why she left.
Her Wikipedia biography notes the departure date — 30 July 2024 — and her next role, but doesn’t offer any personal commentary. GCN hasn’t published anything that explains the decision either. So if you’re looking for a dramatic tell-all or a confirmed behind-the-scenes conflict, that story simply doesn’t exist in any public form right now.
What we do know is that she moved on to a new presenting opportunity. As of July 2025, she’s been presenting a show called The Watts — which means she didn’t leave cycling media, she shifted within it.
That framing is important. Think of it like a journalist leaving one TV network to host a show on another. It often signals career growth, a desire for new formats, or a chance to work on something that fits better at that particular point in someone’s career. It doesn’t automatically mean something went wrong.
The absence of a public statement is also pretty normal. Most media career transitions happen quietly. People don’t always owe the public an explanation for changing jobs — and reading too much into the silence tends to lead people down the wrong path.
To be clear: if anyone tells you she was fired, pushed out, or involved in some kind of dispute, they’re guessing. No confirmed source backs that up.
The Bigger Conversation About Women at GCN
That said, Manon’s departure did spark a wider conversation that’s worth knowing about — even if it doesn’t explain her personal reasons for leaving.
A 2024 opinion piece asked directly whether GCN has a problem with how it represents women presenters. The piece used Manon’s exit as a jumping-off point and argued that GCN has historically had a male-dominated presenter lineup, with women often being funnelled into narrower content areas rather than given equal footing across all formats.
The same piece acknowledged that since Manon left, GCN has made some attempts to bring more women content creators into full-time presenting roles. But the author argued that structural issues remain.
This is media criticism and opinion — not a statement from Manon herself, and not something GCN leadership has publicly confirmed or responded to in detail. It’s the kind of commentary that often surrounds the departure of a high-profile woman in a male-dominated space, and it raises fair questions. But it’s important not to treat it as the reason Manon left, because she hasn’t said that herself.
What it does show is that her presence at GCN mattered beyond just the videos she hosted. She occupied a space that wasn’t easy to fill — and her absence made that visible.
For a broader look at how media career moves like this fit into the bigger picture of sports and business, Flockbusiness covers stories at that intersection regularly.
What Has Manon Been Doing Since Leaving GCN?
The clearest sign that Manon’s departure from GCN was a move forward rather than a step back? She hasn’t gone anywhere.
Since leaving in July 2024, she’s continued doing brand work — including a Shimano video called Manon Lloyd’s Longest Ride Ever, which shows her still very much in the cycling world, just on her own terms. The comments on that video say a lot. Viewers wrote things like “it was a sad day when she left GCN, but I’m happy she’s still around.” That reaction tells you how much people valued her, and how closely they were tracking what she did next.
Then from July 2025, she started presenting The Watts, which marks a clear new chapter in her media career. The details of that show are still limited in public reporting, but the fact that she moved into a new role relatively quickly suggests this was a planned transition, not an abrupt end.
Her career arc actually follows a pattern that’s becoming more common in sports media. Ex-athletes use platforms like GCN to build their presenting skills and their audience, then take that personal brand somewhere new — whether that’s a different channel, brand partnerships, or independent projects. It’s a smart approach, and it’s one that tends to work when a presenter has already built genuine viewer loyalty.
So What Do We Actually Know?
Let’s pull it all together, clearly.
- Confirmed: Manon Lloyd left GCN on 30 July 2024, after five years with the channel.
- Confirmed: She moved into a new presenting role — The Watts — from July 2025.
- Confirmed: She remains active in cycling media through brand work and presenting.
- Not confirmed: Any specific reason she gave for leaving, or any statement from GCN about it.
- Not confirmed: Any dispute, conflict, or controversy connected to her exit.
- Broader context: There are ongoing conversations about gender representation at GCN, but these are media critiques — not personal statements from Manon.
The honest version of this story is a fairly ordinary one: a talented presenter spent five years at a big cycling channel, built a loyal audience, and then moved on to something new. The reason that story feels significant is because she was genuinely good at what she did, and people noticed when she wasn’t there anymore.
If a more detailed explanation ever comes — from Manon or from GCN — that will be worth paying attention to. But until then, the most grounded reading of what happened is simply that she was ready for the next thing.
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