Gemma Cairney (born 19 March 1985) is an English television and radio presenter best known for her work on

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and

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. She most recently presented '' The Leisure Society'' on

where she interviewed cultural icons including

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, Laurie Vincent from

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and

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. Previously she co-hosted ''

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'' alongside

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. She has also presented ''Gemma Cairney'' on BBC Radio 1 weekends 7am10am and later weekdays 4am6:30am, switching with Dev. More recently she has regularly covered for

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, Mary Ann Hobbs, Chris Hawkins,

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and

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on BBC Radio 6 Music. Cairney is also an

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ambassador.

Early career and radio presenting

Prior to her career in radio, she was an assistant fashion stylist for multiple pop acts. Cairney was a presenter for the Channel 4 Produced Ad funded show called Bite for Ford Fiesta. Then, following a course at

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Cairney fronted several radio shows for Channel 4's 4radio before landing the role of co-presenter for Big Brother's Big Ears for Big Brother 2008 alongside

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. Cairney began her 1Xtra career co-hosting the Breakfast Show with co-presenter

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. Prior to starting on BBC Radio 1Xtra, she co-presented the Kiss FM breakfast show for two weeks in August 2008. She co-presented the BBC Radio 1Xtra breakfast show for 2 years before moving to a solo weekday afternoon show on the station from 14pm. In February 2012, it was announced that Cairney would take over Weekend Breakfast on BBC Radio 1.

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took over her slot on 1Xtra. On 10 January 2014,

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announced a schedule change that would see Cairney and early weekday morning show host Dev swap shows. They swapped on 29 March 2014. In April 2015 it was announced that Cairney would take over The Surgery on Wednesday evenings from former presenter Aled Haydn Jones and that Adele Roberts would replace her as the early breakfast show host. These changes took effect in June 2015. Cairney has presented a number of radio documentaries, including ''Amazing Grace'' (2015), ''What the F: the Story of Feminism'' (2014), ''Mali Music'' (2014),''Tempted by Teacher'' (2014) and ''Bruising Silence'' (2013). In January 2015, Cairney started a production company called Boom Shakalaka Productions Ltd. The company specialises in making various types of content, including podcasts and theatre. Boom Shakalaka produced a successful punk musical about depression at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015 called ''My Beautiful Black Dog''. and a radio documentary for the

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Early career and radio presenting

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