Matthew Brown (born 14 August 1973 in

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) is a British

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Career

He started out in 1999 hosting

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along with

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, Casey-Jane Rand, Mounya Khamlichi and Yiolanda Koppel, but is best known for presenting the

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spin-off programmes '' Love Island Aftersun'', which he hosted in 2005 with ''Celebrity Love Island'' winner

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in 2006, and '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!'', with

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. He also hosts the '' UK Top Ten'' on Eat Cinema, with Mohini Sule.

Radio

Matt is also a

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presenter, and in early 2007 could be heard on

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in London and

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. Matt co-hosted the breakfast show for Fox FM (later

Heart Oxfordshire Heart Oxfordshire (formerly Fox FM) was a local radio station broadcasting to Oxfordshire on 102.6 MHz FM broadcasting, FM from the Oxford transmitting station and 97.4 MHz FM from a relay station at Farthinghoe, near Banbury. Originally la ...

) with Giselle Ruskin. As of 12/07/2010, Matt Brown hosted the Breakfast show alongside Michelle Jordan of the newly merged radio stations (

Heart Berkshire Heart Berkshire (formerly 2-Ten FM) was an Independent Local Radio station, serving Berkshire and North Hampshire from studios in Reading. About Launched as Radio 210 (Two-One-Oh), the station commenced broadcasting in March 1976 on its medi ...

and

), namely

Heart Thames Valley Heart Thames Valley was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to Berkshire, Oxfordshire, north Hampshire and parts of west Buckinghamshire from studios in Reading, southern England. T ...

. Matt left Heart in 2016. As of September, 2017 he started hosting weekend afternoons o
Magic FM

Author

Matt is the author of th
Compton Valance
book series. The first of these, ''The Most Powerful Boy In The Universe'', was published by Usborne in June 2014. The second book in the series, ''"The Time Travelling Sandwich Bites Back"'', was published in October, 2014. The third book, ''"Super F.A.R.T.s Versus The Master Of Time"'' was published in June, 2015 and the fourth book, "''The Revenge of the Fancy Pants Time Pirate''" was published in June, 2016. He has also released a new series of books which include: Aliens Invaded My Talent Show, Mutant Zombie Cursed My School Trip and Killer Vending Machines Wrecked My Lunch.

Awards

''Compton Valance: The Most Powerful Boy In The Universe'' has been shortlisted for BASH 2015, the Oxfordshire Book Award, the Coventry Inspiration Book Award and Reading Rampage 2015.

External links

Matt Brown on Magic 105.4
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