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Jay Jay Burridge also known as Jay Burridge (born 12 January 1971) is an artist and former

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. He fronted the

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children's art programme ''

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'' from 1994 until 2003, when he left and became a

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inventor. He was a close friend of colleague

Mark Speight Mark Warwick Fordham Speight (6 August 1965 – 7 April 2008) was an English television presenter and host of children's art programme '' SMart''. Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire, and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist. He ...

Career

TV presenter and early career

He graduated from

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of shor ...

with a degree in art, and in 1994 auditioned for the role as a presenter on the

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children's art programme ''

''. At his interview he met

, and the two soon formed a strong friendship. Burridge and Speight were given the jobs of presenting ''SMart'' alongside

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. Ball left, and was replaced by Josie d'Arby who was then replaced by

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and Lizi Botham in 1999. Together with O'Brien and Botham they fronted the ''SMart'' spin-off shows ''

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'' and ''

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'', as well as appearing at many other art-related events. Together, Burridge and Speight created all of the art projects for each episode of ''

'' at Burridge's West

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art studio. He noted: "We would bounce ideas and jokes off each other all day until we had developed an almost telepathically linked knowledge of what made each other laugh." Burridge left ''

'' in 2003, feeling he had "outgrown isrole as a children's TV presenter," and wanted to move "out of the limelight". He worked as a commercial artist before becoming a producer for a TV company, as well as working as a

and

inventor. He is the founder of the design company Laughing Boy and Lucky Seven, a hat company which specialises in crested baseball caps emblazoned with the logos of fictional companies from TV shows and films. The caps have been worn by people including

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and

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. Burridge directed the music video for the song "Inspired By" by

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and was

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's "

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" video, for which he won a Cads Music Vision Award. He also designed several large denim butterflies, which went on display on the streets of London, as part of an advertising campaign for Levi Strauss & Co.'s "Live Unbuttoned" 501 jeans. ''When Superstars Ruled the World'', an exhibition by Burridge about dinosaurs, opened in 2010 at the Lazarides Gallery in Beverly Hills. In 2011, Burridge's piece, a full-sized unassembled

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model of

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car, sold at auction for €187,000. The piece had been on show at the "Remembering Ayrton Senna" exhibition.

Supersaurs

In 2017, Bonnier Zaffre released The World of Supersaurs: Raptors of Paradise, the first of a major six-book series, written by Burridge. The book was accompanied by a free app that uses AR technology to bring the illustrations to life and also had a mini-game with 50 missions that are completed by exploring the pages. Burridge, who is dyslexic, wrote and designed the book experience to instigate children that struggle with reading to be excited about books and is a firm believer on the use of technology to support new readers.

Personal life

Burridge is married. He was close friends with Speight and the two formed an "on- and off-screen double act" and regularly attended the ''Regency Rooms'' comedy nights together. Following the death of Speight's fiancée

Natasha Collins Natasha Louise Collins (7 July 1976 – 3 January 2008) was an English actress and model. Following a car crash that curtailed her career, she fatally overdosed on cocaine, which Mark Speight, her fiancé, was initially suspected of supplying, b ...

in January 2008, Burridge met up with him on several occasions and "tried to get him to see that the worst was over", although he realised that Speight "might not be able to keep going". Burridge spoke to Speight on 7 April 2008 and arranged to meet up with him later in the day. Speight, however, disappeared and committed suicide later that day. Burridge had helped police try to locate Speight, and was informed of his death on 13 April. He attended Speight's funeral on 28 April.

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