Kelly-Anne Smith (born 9 July 1979 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a voice-over artist and presenter based in London. Smith is a

continuity announcer In broadcasting, continuity or presentation (or station break in the U.S. and Canada) is announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes. It typically includes programme schedules, announcement of the ...

for Channel 5 in the UK. She started as a radio presenter and was the Drivetime DJ on national station Virgin Radio.

Education

Smith has a BA Communication, Culture and Media from Coventry University. Whilst at university she created the student radio station Phoenix Radio now known as

Source Radio Source Radio is a radio station operating from Coventry, England. It is a division of the Coventry University Students' Union, and broadcast to the Campus and beyond, online. It occasionally operated for short periods on FM and AM, complemente ...

Early career

Smith started with a work placement at local Coventry radio station Kix96 whilst at university and was also a broadcast assistant for

BBC CWR BBC CWR (Coventry & Warwickshire Radio) is the BBC's local radio station serving Coventry and Warwickshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Priory Place in Coventry city centre. According to RAJAR, t ...

. In June 2001 she began hosting the breakfast show at Loughborough station

Oak FM The New 107 Oak FM was a local radio station broadcasting in West Leicestershire and Nuneaton North Warwickshire, in the English Midlands. It was owned and operated by Quidem. History Launching on Wednesday 26 March 2008, the station was ...

. From there she moved to the East Midlands regional station

Century 106 Gem is an Independent Local Radio station based in Nottingham, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to the East Midlands. As of September 2022, the station has a weekly audience of 318,000 listen ...

. She presented the new music evening show, interviewing new bands and doing live sessions.

Virgin Radio

Smith joined Virgin Radio in 2003 to present a brand new evening show "Most Wanted". Being sandwiched in between Daryl Denham and Jeremy Kyle. After five months of being on the station, she was promoted to the drivetime slot Kelly-Anne did a lot of the interviews for the station and at the Isle of Wight Festival and V festival including Roger Daltrey, Pink and Hollywood superstar Will Smith. She has since returned to cover at the station as Virgin Radio and more recently as

Absolute Radio Absolute Radio is a British National radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Absolute Radio Network. It broadcasts nationally across the UK via Digital audio broadcasting and on 1215 kHz MW. History 1993–1997: Virg ...

Radio voice-over

Smith's radio branding voice work includes

Global Radio Global Media & Entertainment Limited, trading as Global, is a British media company formed in 2007. It is the owner of the largest commercial radio company in Europe having expanded through a number of historical acquisitions, including Chrysa ...

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network, in London and across the UK and Bauer Radio

Big City Network Bauer Media Audio UK is a UK-based radio division of the Bauer Media Group. History In early 2008, German magazine publisher Bauer bought the radio division of British company Emap, which had been established as East Midland Allied Press in ...

. She was the imaging voice for the Virgin Radio Canada network, which won an RAP Gold award for imaging. She voices the Free Radio Network in the UK, and is on stations in Pakistan, Canada, Switzerland and France as well as across America as the voice of Akon's Hitlab Radio Show and the Remix Top 30 Countdown with Sean Hamilton.

Continuity

Smith started as a continuity announcer for Five Life (now

5Star 5Star (stylized as 5STAR) is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia and a sister channel of Channel 5. It originally launched as the female-orientated Five Life on 15 October 2006, and was relaunch ...

). She went to

Sky One Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). Originally launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, it was Europe's first satellite and non-terrestrial channel. From 31 July 1989, ...

as a live announcer briefly but then moved to Channel 5 as a live

on their public broadcasting channel. She is always the announcer around '' CSI'' and once interviewed the elusive William Petersen for a ''CSI'' special. She is also a continuity announcer for BBC Entertainment, Sky Atlantic, TLC (TV channel) and

Sony Entertainment Television (UK & Ireland) Great! TV (stylized as GREAT! tv) is a general entertainment channel in the United Kingdom owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. It originally launched as Sony Entertainment Television on 7 April 2011. However, it was closed on 6 February ...

On-screen

Smith presents on the ''

Game of Thrones ''Game of Thrones'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first ...

Thronecast'' for Sky Atlantic where she interviews the cast. Kelly-Anne presented coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 for MSN International

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Kelly-Anne English voice actresses English radio personalities Living people 1979 births Alumni of Coventry University Mass media people from Winchester