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Debi Jones (born 1958 in
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, Lancashire) is a radio and television broadcaster, journalist, singer, politician and actress. Jones has presented shows for the
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, Granada Television, BFBS Radio and Radio City. She presenting the afternoon show on BBC Radio Merseyside during the 1980s and then presenting the BBC daytime programme ''People Today'' and the magazine show ''
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''. More recently, Jones has maintained a television career with shopping and holiday channels in the UK. Jones has also supported the
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, and served as a councillor in the Manor ward of Crosby. She was the Conservative candidate for Sefton Central at the
2010 UK general election The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons. The election took place in 650 constituencies across the United Kingdom unde ...
, in which she came second to Labour's
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, winning 33.9% of the vote. Jones has acted on stage and in movies. She played Micky in the film ''
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'' and has starred in pantomimes opposite
Ricky Tomlinson Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson (born 26 September 1939) is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles as Bobby Grant in '' Brookside'', DCI Charlie Wise in ''Cracker'' and Jim Royle in '' The Royle Family'', and playing the titular cha ...
at the
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. In January 2018, it was announced that Jones would join the new radio station Delux Radio, opposite presenters such as
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and
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.


Personal life

Jones is married to Steve Jones; they have a daughter, Ruth.


References


External links


Debi Jones – The Official Website

Debi Jones at Champions
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