Yasmin Evans (born 27 October 1990) is an English television and radio presenter. She is best known for presenting on

BBC Radio 1Xtra BBC Radio 1Xtra is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts black music and urban music, including hip hop and R&B and is a sister station to Radio 1. Launching at 18:00 on 16 August 2002, it had been cod ...

(2012–2021). She's also known for presenting on

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 ...

's ''

Saturday Mash-Up! ''Saturday Mash-Up!'' is a British Saturday morning children's magazine entertainment programme on CBBC and BBC Two, first broadcast on 30 September 2017. It is currently presented by Joe Tasker and a puppet monster called Stanley performed by ...

'' (2017–2019),

Heart Radio Heart is a British radio network and brand of 13 adult contemporary local stations operated by Global throughout the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming. Ten of the Heart stations are owned by Global, while th ...

(from 2022) and more.

Early life and education

Evans was born in

Stockport Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Most of the town is within ...

, an area of

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority, combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: City of Manchester, Manchester, City of Salford, Salford ...

. She began her radio career at the age of just 15 presenting on one of Manchester's most prominent community stations: All Fm 96.9 www.allfm.org. She studied Radio BA (Hons) at the

University of Salford , caption = Coat of ArmsUniversity of Salford , mottoeng = "Let us seek higher things" , established = 1850 - Pendleton Mechanics Institute 1896 – Royal Technical Institute, Salford 1967 – gained ...

where she was approached by the

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to take part in their piloting scheme.

Career

In September 2012 Evans was offered the

Weekend Breakfast show and after just nine months in that slot she became the co-host of the 1Xtra Weekday Breakfast Show which she presented for three years alongside Twin B. In 2016, she moved to weekday afternoons and swapped timeslots with Dotty. In Summer 2017, it was announced that Evans and Jonny Nelson would be presenting

's ''

''. ''Saturday Mash-Up'' is a mix of celebrity guests, games, sketches and CBBC shows and it is recorded in

MediaCityUK MediaCityUK is a mixed-use property development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The project was developed by Peel Media; its principal tenants are media organisations and the Quayside MediaCi ...

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

. Evans and Nelson hosted two series between 2017 and 2019 before they were replaced by Harpz Kaur of

BBC Asian Network BBC Asian Network is a British Asian radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station's target audience is people "with an interest in British Asian lifestyles", especially British Asians between the ages of 18 and 34. The station has ...

and YouTuber Joe Tasker. In 2018, Evans presented

The Brit Awards The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain", or "Britannia" (in the early days the awards were sponsored ...

' first International Live Stream in

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. She also presented in

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and

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

. In 2020, Evans appeared in

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

's '' Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins''. The programme was aired in April 2020 in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown. In December 2021, Evans announced that she would be leaving 1Xtra after spending her nine years on the station. Her last show was on

Christmas Eve Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation ...

2021. It was also announced that she will join

Heart The heart is a muscular organ in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide t ...

from the beginning of 2022.

Personal life

In May 2022 it was reported that Evans had been the victim of an assault; Evans posted on her

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account that she had been grabbed, punched and knocked out twice while walking near to

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Bishopsgate Bishopsgate was one of the eastern gates in London's former defensive wall. The gate gave its name to the Bishopsgate Ward of the City of London. The ward is traditionally divided into ''Bishopsgate Within'', inside the line wall, and ''Bishop ...

References

External links

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Yasmin Evans on Heart Radio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Yasmin 1990 births Living people English people of Jamaican descent British radio personalities BBC Radio 1Xtra presenters English radio personalities Black British DJs Black British radio presenters Heart (radio network) Women DJs People from Stockport Mass media people from Manchester British women radio presenters Alumni of the University of Salford