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Andrea McLean
Andrea Jean McLean (born 5 October 1969) is a Scottish journalist and television presenter who worked on ITV Daytime. She was a weather presenter for ''GMTV'' from 1997 to 2008, and a co-presenter on ITV's daytime chat show ''Loose Women'' from 2007 to 2020. Early life Although born in Glasgow, McLean and her sister were raised in Trinidad and Tobago. The family then moved back to Scotland when she was 15, but later settled in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, and took her school exams at Robert Smyth grammar school. McLean is of Russian Jewish descent on her father's side who fled from Russia to Scotland to avoid persecution. McLean has stated she has always known about her Jewish heritage but her family are not religiously Jewish anymore. McLean studied for her BA Hons in Modern Studies at Coventry University, and later gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Periodical Journalism. She then took a gap year in Cairns, Australia. Career McLean started her career in ...
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British Academy Television Awards 2009
The 2009 British Academy Television Awards were held on 26 April at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The event was broadcast live on BBC One and was hosted by Graham Norton. The nominations were announced on 24 March. Winners in bold. Nominations * Best Actor **Stephen Dillane – ''The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall'' (Channel 4) **Jason Isaacs – ''The Curse of Steptoe'' (BBC Four) **Ken Stott – ''Hancock and Joan'' (BBC Four) **Ben Whishaw – ''Criminal Justice'' (BBC One) *Best Actress **June Brown – ''EastEnders'' (BBC One) **Anna Maxwell Martin – '' Poppy Shakespeare'' (Channel 4) **Maxine Peake – ''Hancock and Joan'' (BBC One) ** Andrea Riseborough – '' Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley'' (BBC Four) * Best Entertainment Performance **Stephen Fry – '' QI'' (BBC One/Two) **Harry Hill – ''Harry Hill's TV Burp'' (ITV) ** Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – '' I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!'' (ITV) ** Jonathan Ross – ''Friday Night with ...
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LK Today
The following details are for the programmes that GMTV (Good Morning Television) broadcast on ITV. GMTV is the former breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on Friday 1 January 1993 and finished on Friday 3 September 2010, being replaced by ITV Breakfast. ''GMTV'' 1993–2000 ''GMTV'' is the original brand for GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme from 6:00 am. It included national and international news stories, regional news, weather, interviews, cookery and health features, human-interest and showbiz stories, and competitions. In spring 1993, shortly after the channel's launch, a separate news-focused programme was introduced between 6:00am and 7:00 am, which in early 1994 became ''The Reuters News Hour''. The main 6:00–9:00 am programme remained named ''GMTV'' but, as part of the show's new look for the millennium, this main programme later became ''GMTV Today''. On 3 January 2000, ''GMTV'' relaunched and change ...
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Ruth Langsford
Ruth Wendy Holmes (née; Langsford; born 17 March 1960) is an English television presenter. She has presented various television shows, including '' This Morning'' (1999–present) in which she is the longest serving presenter, '' Gift Wrapped'' (2014), ''How the Other Half Lives'' (2015–present), and ''Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit'' (2017–present). Since 1999, Langsford has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show ''Loose Women'', becoming a presenter in 2013. In 2017, she took part in the fifteenth series of ''Strictly Come Dancing'', in which she finished in ninth place. Early life Ruth Langsford was born in Singapore, to Dennis and Joan Langsford. She lived in five countries before the age of ten, including West Germany and four countries in North Africa. Langsford attended Saltash School in Cornwall from 1977 to 1978. Career Television Langsford began her career as a continuity announcer and newscaster with ITV regional station Television South West (TSW) ...
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Kaye Adams
Kaye Adams (born 28 December 1962) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist. She was an anchor on ITV topical discussion show ''Loose Women'' from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2013 and was a regular panellist on Channel 5's daily morning show ''The Wright Stuff'' from 2007 until 2012. She hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland weekdays from 9am to 12 noon. Early life Adams attended Abbotsgrange Middle school in Grangemouth and Grangemouth High before moving to the fee-paying St George's School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated with an MA Honours in Economics and Politics. Media career Adams started her media career as a graduate trainee at Central Television, concentrating on political and news journalism – her first coup was a one-hour interview with Margaret Thatcher. For the next few years, Adams remained focused on hard news when in early 1988 moved to Scottish Television's nightly news programme, ''Scotland Today''. S ...
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Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman, HonFIET (born 24 December 1960) is a Welsh media personality, best known for appearing on the game show ''Countdown'' for 26 years from 1982 until 2008, as a newspaper columnist and nominal author of educational and diet books, and hosting the annual Pride of Britain awards. Vorderman's career began in 1982 when she joined Channel 4 game show ''Countdown''. She appeared on the show with Richard Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005, and subsequently with Des Lynam and Des O'Connor, before leaving in 2008. While appearing on ''Countdown'', Vorderman began presenting other shows for various broadcasters including ''Better Homes'' and '' The Pride of Britain Awards'' for ITV, as well as guest hosting shows such as '' Have I Got News for You'', ''The Sunday Night Project'' and ''Lorraine''. She has written books on detox diets. Vorderman was a presenter of ITV's '' Loose Women'' from 2011 until 2014. Early life and education Vorderman was born in Bedf ...
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Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton (born 7 February 1973) is an English journalist and broadcaster, best known as the first presenter of ''The X Factor'' (2004–2006) and for presenting daytime shows including '' Loose Women'' (2009–2011) and '' This Morning'' (2009–2012). In 2010, she co-presented the first series of ''71 Degrees North'' alongside Gethin Jones. Career Journalism In 1995, she became the first female and youngest ever editor of pop magazine '' Smash Hits'' at age 22, producing her first issue in February 1996 covering the breakup of boy-band Take That. She left a year later, having been unable to prevent a further slide in sales of the magazine. In 1997, she became a Features Editor at the '' Sunday Times'', a post she held until 2001, and also a contributing Editor for magazine '' Marie Claire'', in which position she continued until 2003.
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Jackie Brambles
Jackie Todd Brambles (previously Sherry-Brambles) (born 1 March 1967), formerly known as Jakki Brambles, is a British journalist, radio DJ and television presenter. Early life and early career Brambles was born in Harlow, Essex, England and grew up in Ayrshire, Scotland, where she went to secondary school at Ayr Academy in Fort Street, Ayr. She also began her radio career on local radio station West Sound in Ayr when she was 19. Career She joined Capital London in 1987 as its youngest DJ, and after a year on the evening show joined the BBC in 1988 as the first female presenter (same as Annie Nightingale & the late Janice Long) to get her own prime time show on the national pop network BBC Radio 1. She took on the Radio 1's early morning show, first at weekends, before moving to weekdays. She also joined her colleagues on the ''Top of the Pops'' presentation roster. When Sybil Ruscoe left her role as Simon Mayo's weather and travel reporter on the breakfast show, Brambles to ...
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Andi Peters
Andi Eleazu Peters (born 29 July 1970) is a British television presenter, producer, journalist and voice actor, currently employed by ITV and known for presenting Children's BBC, roles on breakfast TV shows ''Live & Kicking'', ''GMTV'', '' Good Morning Britain'' and ''Lorraine'', and for hosting '' Dancing on Ice: Extra'' and ''The Big Reunion''. He competed in the first series of the ITV skating competition ''Dancing on Ice''. He appeared in the third series of ''Celebrity MasterChef'' finishing as runner-up behind Atomic Kitten singer Liz McClarnon. Career Television During his early television career, Andi Peters worked for ITV as an presenter for Thames Television and as in-vision continuity announcer for CITV. He was taken on by the BBC in 1989 as a presenter on Children's BBC for ''The Broom Cupboard'', succeeding Phillip Schofield and Andy Crane. Peters was accompanied by Edd the Duck, a hand puppet with a green mohican. Peters hosted ''The Broom Cupboard'' for just o ...
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Doug Webster
Professional skaters from the British television show '' Dancing on Ice'' are figure skaters who appear with celebrities in front of a panel of judges. Most of the professionals on the series are former ice dancers or pair skaters. Competitive appearances Green if the skater competed at given international event, with highest placement in brackets, or won their senior national title. All information relates to senior-level events, except the World Junior Championships, which is included due to its status as an ISU Championship. The European Championships is for skaters from Europe, while the Four Continents Championships is for skaters from other continents. Those not included in the table below have no senior national medals to their name and did not compete in any ISU Championship or Grand Prix events. Pavel Aubrecht Pavel Aubrecht is a Czech skater. He has no senior national medals to his name and did not appear in any ISU Championship or Grand Prix events. He appe ...
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Dancing On Ice
''Dancing on Ice'' is a British television series presented by Phillip Schofield alongside Holly Willoughby from 2006 to 2011, who then returned in 2018, and Christine Bleakley from 2012 to 2014. The series features celebrities and their professional partners figure skating in front of a panel of judges. The series, broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV, started on 14 January 2006 and ended on 9 March 2014 after the contract was not renewed by ITV. On 4 September 2017, it was announced that a revived series would air on ITV from 7 January 2018 with Schofield and Willoughby returning as hosts. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean assumed new roles as head judges, alongside original judge Jason Gardiner and new judge Ashley Banjo. In 2020, John Barrowman replaced Gardiner as a judge, however on 3 October 2021, it was announced that Barrowman would not be returning to the judging panel. His replacement was later announced as ''Strictly Come Dancing'' professional Oti Mabuse. During the ...
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Ice-skating
Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates. People skate for various reasons, including recreation (fun), exercise, competitive sports, and commuting. Ice skating may be performed on naturally frozen bodies of water, such as ponds, lakes, canals, and rivers, and on man-made ice surfaces both indoors and outdoors. Natural ice surfaces used by skaters can accommodate a variety of winter sports which generally require an enclosed area, but are also used by skaters who need ice tracks and trails for distance skating and speed skating. Man-made ice surfaces include ice rinks, ice hockey rinks, bandy fields, ice tracks required for the sport of ice cross downhill, and arenas. Various formal sports involving ice skating have emerged since the 19th century. Ice hockey, bandy, rinkball, and ringette, are team sports played with, respectively, a flat sliding puck, a ball, and a rubber ring. Synchronized skating is a u ...
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Kirsty McCabe
Kirsty McCabe (born 10 July 1975) is a Scottish weather forecaster and presenter at Sky News, and was formerly the senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel, based at the UK office in London. Early life Kirsty attended Annanhill Primary School and Grange Academy, while at high school McCabe was an early member of the Palace Youth Theatre which was a joint venture between Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Council and Borderline Theatre Company. During this time she played roles in many stage productions including Alice in '' Alice in Wonderland'' and performed as a solo singer on many occasions, notably performing John Lennon's "Imagine" in the 1993 production of ''Summertime Blues''. McCabe studied Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of pa ...
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