Jo Russell is an English radio presenter currently working for

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Biography

Russell worked for an insurance company and Coca-Cola among other roles before beginning her broadcasting career at York Hospital Radio. She later moved on to hosting weekend shows at Stray FM in Harrogate and a full-time presenting role at York's

Minster FM Minster FM was a local radio station serving York and the surrounding areas such as Selby, Tadcaster, Thirsk, Northallerton and Goole. The station closed on 31 August 2020 and its frequency is now a relay of Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire York & ...

. From 1998 onwards, Russell spent over ten years co-presenting

Trent FM Trent FM was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Nottinghamshire. The station merged with two other East Midlands stations, Leicester Sound and Ram FM to form Capital FM East Midlands (part of Global's Capital FM Network) on M ...

's award-winning breakfast show with Andy "Twiggy" Twigge, who had previously worked alongside her at sister station

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in Derby. During this time, Russell won various awards for her work including four Sony Awards, the 2008 Arqiva Commercial Radio Presenter of the Year and Best Breakfast Show at the 2007 European Radio Awards. In September 2008, she joined Absolute Radio as the host of a weekend mid-morning show, which ran for around thirteen months. A month after her departure from Absolute, Russell joined BRMB to host its flagship weekday breakfast show, ''The Jo Show''. In November 2010, following a break from work due to illness, she began co-presenting the station's weekday drivetime show ''Jo and Sparky'', alongside Mark "Sparky" Colerangle. During 2011, Russell also presented ''Back to the 80s'', a weekly Saturday night show for the East Midlands regional radio station

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. In 2014, Russell was awarded the Local and Regional Lifetime Achievement award by the

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. In July 2015, Russell and Colerangle moved to Free Radio's Shropshire and Black Country station to co-present ''Jo and Sparky'' in the weekday breakfast timeslot, beginning on Monday 20 July 2015 at 6am. The pair joined sister station Gem 106 in 2016 to present a Saturday morning show. In September 2017, it was announced Russell and Colerangle would leave Free Radio and join

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full-time as presenters of the station's weekday breakfast show on Monday 16 October 2017, replacing

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and Amy Voce.Jo & Sparky to replace Sam & Amy at GEM 106
Radio Today, 14 September 2017

References

External links

6th Vision Management – Jo RussellGem - Jo and Sparky at Breakfast
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