Kirsty Gallacher is seen behind the wheel of her £55,000 Tesla for the first time since serving a six-month driving ban for speeding - her fifth motoring offence in eight years

Kirsty Gallacher was back behind the wheel on Thursday morning after seeing out a six-month driving ban for speeding - her fifth motoring offence in eight years. 

The presenter added to her list of misdemeanors when she was caught by a speed camera going 35mph in a 30mph zone near her luxury home in Maidens Green, Berkshire, on 1 April 2025.

Gallacher, 50, pleaded guilty at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court to a single charge of speeding in October, but appealed the driving ban, stating that she relies upon driving to take care of her two teenage sons, to access medical care for a benign brain tumour, and for work. 

Returning to the road on Thursday, she was driving at a considerably slower speed through the Berkshire countryside after climbing behind the wheel of her environmentally friendly £55,000 Tesla.

Gallacher has three previous speeding offences. In a separate incident in 2017, she was spotted driving her car erratically and was found to be almost three times over the legal limit for alcohol. 

She was breath-tested and found to have 106 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, almost three times the legal limit of 35.

At the time, she told the court that she had driven the morning after drinking the previous night.

She pleaded guilty at Slough Magistrates' Court and was banned from driving for two years, ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid community work, and required to pay court costs and a victim surcharge.

In October, Gallacher told the court that she couldn't afford to pay for a taxi, or a private driver as she is the sole financial provider for her two children. 

The presenter earns £150,000 a year presenting Gold Radio and told the court she has around £80,000 in savings.

District Judge Arvind Sharma told her at the time: 'I accept that things will be harder for you, but those are all manageable. 

'I don't accept that your son needs a lift every morning, and you have adequate money saved up that you can use taxis for your children and yourself.'

She was also fined a total of £1,044 for the offence.

Gallacher spoke to the Daily Mail exclusively at the time and said that the decision was a 'shock'.

She said: 'There's no empathy. I'm just an ordinary mum with plates spinning, I do everything. With my health as well, it's going to be very difficult.'

At the time, she had nine points on her licence, for three previous speeding offences which took place on September 9, 2023, August 3, 2024 and August 9, 2024. 

The court heard that the speed was recorded by manned enforcement equipment.

Gallacher has a benign brain tumour which has left her deaf in one ear and suffers tinnitus as a result. She attends appointments in Oxford following recent radiotherapy.

She said public transport is not reliable enough near her rural home for her youngest son to get to school, or to his extracurricular activities, which include golfing, following in the footsteps of Gallacher's father, a professional golfer and Ryder Cup captain. 

She told the court: 'I am not a precious person, I am very humble. I am not saying that I can't use public transport. We have all now and again done that.'

Sophia Dower, representing the TV presenter said that Gallacher is 'the epitome of a one-woman-band'.

In court, Gallacher said of her health issues: 'I have a brain tumour, an acoustic neuroma – it is benign. 

'But it's growing very fast. They have monitored it for the last three years. I am now doing radiotherapy.

'We don't know if the radiotherapy is going to work, if it will shrink [the tumour] or not. It's a bit of a suck it and see situation.'