Dermot O’Leary
Dermot is one of the nation’s best, and most-loved, television and radio presenters. He established himself as a presenter of Big Brother’s Little Brother on Channel 4 before moving on to The X Factor on ITV. Biography Dermot O’Leary studied at Middlesex University, achieving a degree in Media and Television with Politics. Whilst at Middlesex University he developed an interest in comedy and was involved in various gigs in the students’ union. He started as a disc jockey at Essex Radio before becoming a runner on the TV show Light Lunch with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. He was then part of the original presenting line-up of the channel’s T4 strand, before moving on to present Big Brother’s Little Brother (the companion show to Big Brother) on E4 from 2001 onwards. In August 2006, O’Leary signed a deal to present Continue Reading »
Fern Britton
Fern is one of Britain’s best-loved presenters on television. Fern Britton is probably best known for her role as the former presenter of BBC2’s top rated and award winning ‘Ready Steady Cook’, presenting more than 1,000 shows in over four years and created a cult following amongst the accumulative audience of 16 million. The show featured some of the country’s best known celebrity chefs, including Antony Worrall-Thompson, Brian Turner and James Martin. More recently she has become known to a wider audience having been the co-host of ‘This Morning’ from 1999 to 2009 alongside Philip Schofield. Fern Britton started her broadcasting career with the BBC as a senior presenter with Spotlight South West moving quickly to BBC1’s News Afternoon as the then BBC’s youngest ever-national news presenter. She later became a Senior Presenter with TVS hosting Coast to Coast; Coast Continue Reading »
Lisa Riley
Actress and television presenter who became a household name as feisty barmaid, Mandy Dingle, in the ITV1 soap Emmerdale from 1995 to 2001. Lisa Riley trained at the Oldham Theatre Workshop from the age of 9, and was signed by an agent 3 years later. After some early roles including extra work on Coronation Street and an appearance in Butterfly kiss which was directed by Michael Winterbottom, her first breakthrough role in UK television was playing the well-endowed character Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale over a period of six and a half years. In 1996, Lisa won the National Television Award for Most popular newcomer for her work in Emmerdale. She went on to present the popular You’ve Been Framed show from 1997-2002, taking over from the former presenter, Jeremy Beadle and raising viewers figures to more than 13 million at Continue Reading »
