Stuart Miles (born 20 February 1969) is a British

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and

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presenter, who has worked on the children's programme ''

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''.

Career

Miles studied at

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where he developed an interest in college radio, followed by a stint on hospital radio. Stuart Miles gained his TV break working as a journalist for a local Cable TV station covering news and events in

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. From 1993 to 1994, Miles presented ''

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'', which led to him joining ''Blue Peter'' on 27 June 1994; some of his most memorable moments included joining the

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display team and starring in various ''Blue Peter''

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s. His last appearance was on 21 June 1999. Miles controversially decided to leave ''Blue Peter'' after declaring that it was 'out of touch' with the then-current generation of children and needed to be modernized, and was frustrated at not being selected for its newly-vacant job of Programme Editor; he also felt that the sacking of co-presenter Richard Bacon had not been handled well. Stuart presented with

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Katy Hill Katy Hill (born 15 April 1971) is an English television presenter who has worked in television and radio in the UK since 1995. She presented the long-running children's programme '' Blue Peter'' from 1995 to 2000 and the flagship Saturday morni ...

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, Richard Bacon,

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and Simon Thomas. Since leaving ''Blue Peter'', Miles has guest-presented such programmes as '' This Morning'', ''

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'', and '' Soap Fever'', and took part in ''When Blue Peter Became ABBA''. He has also directed various programmes, and regularly appears in pantomime. In 2007, Stuart presented on

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, an interactive gambling television channel, and started regularly performing his drag act, as a character called ''Stella Ratner''. In January 2008, Stuart joined

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, replacing Sam Vangeen in its lunchtime ''Your Choice Requests'' show. In 2008, Stuart took his live drag stand-up comedy show, "The Adventures of Pink Peter", to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. On 26 April 2010, it was announced that Stuart would be the new Heart 96.6 (Northants) breakfast presenter, along with

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(Natalie B), starting on 4 May, followed by the reformed

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which started on 16 July. Between February 2015 and July 2017 he co-presented "Heart Breakfast" with his former Blue Peter colleague

. He is also the regular stand in for Andy Collins on the breakfast show on

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Credits

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miles, Stuart 1969 births Living people Alumni of Bournemouth University Blue Peter presenters British television presenters GMTV presenters and reporters British LGBT broadcasters Gay comedians English LGBT entertainers People educated at Maidstone Grammar School