Seema Jaswal is a British
television
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and
radio presenter
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from
West London
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.
Jaswal hosts the Premier League's worldwide coverage for
Premier League
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Productions which includes flagship shows ''Kick Off'' and ''Fanzone''. Jaswal also presents
BBC Sport
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’s coverage of the
World Snooker Tour
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Triple Crown
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* Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
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events and Channel 4's
BDO Darts. She is also the
eSports
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host of
Gfinity
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Elite Series
FIFA18.
Jaswal was part of ITV's
World Cup 2018
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coverage, presenting pre-game reports and outside-broadcast interviews from locations around Russia. Previously she presented the
FIFA U17 World Cup draw and
Tournament
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for
Sony Six
Sony Sports Ten 5 (formerly Sony Six) is an Indian English-language pay television sports channel operated by Culver Max Entertainment. It is part of the Sony Sports Network.
History
Sony SIX was launched in April 2012 by Sony Pictures Networ ...
in October 2017. In 2017, Jaswal won a
Media
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Communication
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** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass el ...
Award
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An awar ...
at the Asian Football Awards. She also presented the ''PLTV: Weekend Warm Up'' show on
Premier league
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SuperSport.
BBC
World Snooker Championship
Jaswal is a
reporter
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for the
World Snooker Championship
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at The
Crucible Theatre
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. This role focuses on all of the action going on in and around the event as well as post match
Interviews
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with
Mark Selby
Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player, who is a four-time World Snooker Champion. Ranked world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 21 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the ...
,
Ding Jun Hui,
Shaun Murphy
Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight Cue stick, cue action and his lo ...
, and
Judd Trump
Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player, a former world champion and former world number one. Widely regarded as one of the sport's most talented players, he is currently sixth on the list of all-time ranki ...
. Jaswal also worked alongside
Hazel Irvine
Hazel Irvine (born 24 May 1965) is a Scottish sports presenter.
Early life
Irvine was born in St Andrews, Scotland. Educated at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh, she achieved an MA in History of Art at the University of St. Andrews, and compe ...
,
Jason Mohammad
Jason Mohammad (born 17 September 1973) is a Welsh radio and television presenter currently working for the BBC. He is the current host of ''Final Score'' on BBC One on Saturday afternoons.
Personal life
Mohammad was born and brought up in Car ...
,
Steve Davis
Steve Davis (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a Sports commentator, commentator, musician, DJ, and author. He is best known for dominating professional snooker during the 1980s, when he rea ...
,
Stephen Hendry
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,
Ken Doherty
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As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the World Amateur C ...
and
John Parrott
John Stephen Parrott, (born 11 May 1964) is an English former professional snooker player and television personality. He was a familiar face on the professional snooker circuit during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, and remained within ...
. Jaswal also visited the Becton Centre with the
WPBSA
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and John Parrot to provide them with a Snooker table and further encourage more people with disabilities to play cue sports. For the
2019 World Snooker Championship
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she replaced
Jason Mohammad
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Personal life
Mohammad was born and brought up in Car ...
as secondary presenter.
Motor Sport
Jaswal hosted her first full season of the
Mini Challenge
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on
Channel 4
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which entailed travelling to racing circuits.
Eurosport
UK Snooker Championship
Jaswal worked as a reporter for the
UK Snooker Championship
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with
Eurosport
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capturing all of the live action from the tournament in
York
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. From pre and post match interviews, to
Snooker
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skills challenges to live hits into the studio with
Colin Murray
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the role was varied.
Star Sports India
Hero Indian Super League (ISL), Let’s Football, Let’s Talk Football
Jaswal hosted for Star Sports India the
Hero Indian Super League (ISL) Season 2 presenting both the live Player Draft Auction and the live matches from the studio over a 3-month period with experts
Paul Masefield
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Club career
Masef ...
,
Ashley Westwood and
Gary O'Reilly
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Life and career
O ...
. The live broadcast featured a pre and post show with a half time analysis with global viewing figures reaching over 207 million. The review show Let's Football also hosted by Jaswal covered the main talking points of this tournament. In addition, Jaswal presented a live show Let's Talk Football reviewing all of the weekend's Premier League action.
Channel 5
''The Wright Stuff''
Jaswal spent the best part of three years assisting on ''
The Wright Stuff
''The Wright Stuff'' is a British television chat show which was hosted by former tabloid journalist Matthew Wright from 2000 until 2018. It aired on Channel 5 on weekday mornings from 9:15 to 11:15am. The series characterised itself as "Br ...
'' alongside presenter
Matthew Wright
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introducing the show, engaging with the audience, reading viewers’ social media responses whilst also sharing her own opinions on the daily live debate show.
BT Sport
Jaswal was announced as one of the presenters for
BT Sport
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's coverage of the
UEFA Champions League
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for the 2021–22 season.
Radio
As a producer and presenter at
Westside radio, Jaswal hosted the
Entertainment
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show every Sunday from 10am – 1pm. She wrote the show content and featured a weekly event update, entertainment news bulletins and interviews with artists performing at the local
Beck Theatre
The Beck Theatre is a 600-seat theatre in Hayes, in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It was built in 1977 at a cost of £2.5 million.
Type
The Beck is a community theatre, offering one-night concerts, drama, comedy, dance, musicals, children's ...
.
Awards and Recognition
Jaswal won the ''Media Award'' at the Asian Football Awards 2017.
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
English television presenters
English radio presenters
English people of Indian descent
British VJs (media personalities)