Myma Seldon (born 9 August 1979) is a British

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and

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and voiceover artist.

Background

Seldon was born Jemima Seldon on 9 August 1979 in

Farnborough, London Farnborough is a village in south-eastern Greater London, England, located in the Historic counties of England, historic county of Kent. Situated south of Locksbottom, west of Green Street Green, north of Downe and Hazelwood, London, Hazelwoo ...

, England. She has a 2:1 English/Philosophy

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(Hons) from

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. She also has a

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from the London School of Journalism.

Career

Seldon began her career presenting the 7pm–10pm evening show for Liberty Radio, a

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-based music and talk station. She then presented Liberty Radio's 11am-3pm weekday show before moving to

Invicta FM Heart Kent (previously Invicta FM) was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to Kent from studios at John Wilson Business Park in Whitstable. History Invicta in the 80s Originall ...

Capital Radio Capital London is a radio station owned and operated by the Global media company as part of its national Capital FM Network. As Capital Radio it was launched in the London area in 1973 as one of Britain's first two commercial radio stations. I ...

's biggest regional station. After moving to KMFM, she presented the "Drivetime" show on the three western KMFM stations (

KMFM Maidstone KMFM Maidstone is an Independent Local Radio serving the town of Maidstone and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is the Maidstone region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Group), containing local advertisements and ...

KMFM Medway KMFM Medway is an Independent Local Radio serving the Medway Towns and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is the Medway region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Group), containing local advertisements and sponsorshi ...

and

KMFM West Kent KMFM West Kent is an Independent Local Radio serving the towns of Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Royal Tunbridge Wells plus the surrounding areas of the South East of England. It is the West Kent region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Gr ...

), and was also the Regional Programme Controller (West) for the KMFM group. From July 2010 she presented "KMFM Daytimes" 10am-3pm weekdays and "Sunday Night Love" before leaving the network in 2012. Both shows were networked on all seven KMFM stations. She also provides voicetracked material for the Co-op's in-store radio station. On television, Seldon has presented for

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CBBC CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through Warner Bros. Discovery Sports#Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe properties, its international sports unit, it operates two ...

and Challenge. She also presents on World of Motorsport on UK

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stations

Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It ...

1, 2, 3 and Extra. She appeared in the February 2002 issue of ''

FHM ''FHM'' (For Him Magazine) is a British multinational men's lifestyle magazine that was published in several countries. Its master edition contained features such as the ''FHM'' 100 Sexiest Women in the World, which has featured models, actres ...

'' in a feature on the UK's most attractive radio presenters, making the top six. Unbeknownst to her, a friend sent off a photo to the magazine. The first she knew of it was when she got a call saying she had made the top seven.

References

External links

Official web siteDJ page at KMFMRadiotalent
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seldon, Myma British television presenters British radio personalities British sports broadcasters 1979 births Living people