Jane Elaine Lush (born 10 August 1952) is the Chairman of BAFTA, and a former BBC executive. She left the
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in 2006, after a career spanning over 35 years.
Life and career
Lush was born in
Marylebone
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An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough, it me ...
. She attended
Camden School for Girls
The Camden School for Girls (CSG) is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist- ...
from 1963, then a girls' grammar school.
BBC career
Lush began working for the BBC as a trainee secretary in 1970 at what is now
Langham Hotel, London, but was then owned and used by the Corporation.
After nine years, she became a researcher. Lush told Gaby Koppel in 2018: "I think I was quite lucky in that I found myself working for women bosses at crucial times and they took me more seriously and encouraged me much more than my previously male bosses had done, to believe in myself".
After periods as a production assistant and a producer working in presentation,
Lush oversaw
Barry Norman
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Early life
Born at St Thomas’s Hospital ...
's ''
Film'' review programme. She produced the documentary ''A Film is Born: The Making of Yentl'' concerning the
Barbra Streisand
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film ''
Yentl'' (1983). During the 1980s, Lush took over the BBC's ''
Holiday'' programme and extended its annual run.
As Controller of the BBC's Daytime programming from the autumn of 1998,
Lush commissioned such shows as ''
The Weakest Link
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'', the soap ''
Doctors'' and ''
Bargain Hunt
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''. She chose
Anne Robinson
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for ''The Weakest Link'' and brought
Graham Norton
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and
Vanessa Feltz
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to the BBC.
Head of Entertainment
Lush was responsible for many of the BBC's entertainment shows when she became the head of the department in 2002 including ''
The Apprentice
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Created by U.S.-based British producer Mark Burnett, the show depicts contestants from around the country with various professional backg ...
'', ''
Dragons' Den
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'', ''
Fame Academy
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'', ''
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy'', ''
Test the Nation
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Show format
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'', ''
Strictly Dance Fever'', ''
Just The Two of Us
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'' and ''
Strictly Come Dancing''. She was also responsible for overseeing the BBC's Comedy output including a role with ''
Have I Got News for You'' since it began in 1990, and later in 2002, was the person who told
Angus Deayton his contract as its host was being terminated.
In 2008, former BBC newsreader
Natasha Kaplinsky
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told how she felt Lush and her junior managers had intimidated her into participating in the BBC's high-profile ''Strictly Come Dancing'' entertainment programme in 2003. After Kaplinsky refused to participate for 6 months, the matter was escalated to the
BBC One
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Controller,
Lorraine Heggessey
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and when that approach failed, Lush, Head of Entertainment took Kaplinsky aside and told her "I'm sure you're not going to be penalised for not doing it".
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Later career
Lush left the BBC in 2007 to start up the independent production company, Splash Media,
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/ref> its first output being ''The Underdog Show
''The Underdog Show'' was a six-week television series presented by Julian Clary and his dog, Valerie. The series was produced by the independent production company Splash Medi Format
The show on BBC2 featured celebrities Julia Sawalha, Anton du ...
''. Although she still shares links with the BBC, chairing the Fame Academy Bursary with trustees including Sir Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One ...
.
Personal life
Lush married Peter Tenenbaum in 1974 and lives in north London; the couple have a daughter (born 1981) and a son (born September 1987). She was a close personal friend of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando
Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She spent most of her career at the BBC and was the corporation's Personality of the Year in 1997. At the time of her death, her ...
.
Notes
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1952 births
Living people
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
British television executives
Women television executives
People educated at Camden School for Girls
People from the London Borough of Camden
People from Marylebone