Michelle Doherty is an Irish radio/television presenter, model, actress, and DJ. She has presented various television shows including ''

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'', a daily entertainment/celebrity gossip TV show on '' TV3'' in Ireland,

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television series '' Under Ether'', the weekday breakfast show, Pure Morning on Phantom FM now

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, and '' Night Shift'' and ''Day Shift'' on Channel 6 for a number of years before the closure of the station on 31 December 2008.

Career

Doherty is a model with Morgan The Agency, having got her career break whilst working in Dublin, Ireland as an air stewardess for the airline

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, where she had worked since 1997. She entered the Miss Ireland pageant in both 1995 and 1997, the latter of which she was Miss Belfast. She was among twelve well-known females who took part in the "Max Factor Salutes Great Moments in Fashion" show for which she was styled in vintage fashions and hair styles, photographed by fashion photographer Sarah Doyle and wore a figure-hugging black dress by

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for a portrait which was then sold off at a charity auction. She presented ''Night Shift'', the short lived alternative music show on Channel Six, seven nights per week and also on two weekend afternoons. The decision not to renew the show left both her and Elton Mullally, the co-presenter of the show, feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted". An online campaign to reinstate her on the new 3e roster was launched immediately. The programme is rumoured to be returning in 2014. Doherty's other careers have included a radio show, ''Finest Work Songs'' and ''Pure Morning'' on Phantom 105.2, co-hosting of the next-to-inaugural Choice Music Prize at

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, Dublin in February 2007 and being nominated for an

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. She also had a presenting role during the

events in Dublin in 2009. She has presented ''(When) Under Ether'' for

on Tuesday nights. She presented Haiti Aid on 3 February 2010 at

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and The Village in

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. Doherty played the part of "Liv" in

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's critically acclaimed, award-winning film

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and has just finished filming independent Irish film The Hit Producer where she played the lead role, Katelin Ballantine.

Personal life

Doherty is originally from

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. After spending many years between

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and

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, she recently relocated with her family to Sydney where she currently resides.

Awards and nominations

As well as being nominated for an IFTA, Doherty has also been nominated for Ireland's TV Personality of the Year award. Doherty has won the Best Irish Radio DJ category in the

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Annual Poll in 2009 and 2010 becoming the first ever female DJ to do so.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Doherty, Michelle Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish film actresses Irish radio presenters Irish women radio presenters Irish radio DJs Irish television personalities People from County Donegal RTÉ television presenters Television presenters from the Republic of Ireland TXFM presenters Irish women television presenters