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11AM

The hour-long news program started in 1975 with Roger Climpson presenting, with a number of high-profile presenters since, including Clive Robertson, Vincent Smith, Paul Lyneham, Kerry O'Brien, Don Willesee, Helen Wellings, Richard Zachariah and Ann Sanders.

Adrian Franklin

Adrian Franklin is a professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania and a well known television and radio presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, having done work for such programs as By Design on ABC Radio National and also for the ABC television series Collectors where, with Gordon Brown and Claudia Chan Shaw, he was one of the panel of experts.

Ali Douglas

Ali Shaw, formerly Ali Douglas, is a Scottish television presenter, who appears on ITV News, Sky Sports and MUTV.

Ballingry

Singer-songwriter and filmmaker Richard Jobson, footballer Doug Rougvie and actor Michael Nardone are from the town, as was John George, a miner who became a Unionist MP.

Bunty James

Bunty James (born 1933, Maryport, Cumberland, England) is a former British television presenter who is best known for her appearances on the educational children's television science programme How in the 1960s and 1970s with Jack Hargreaves, Jon Miller and Fred Dinenage.

Daniella Sya

Daniella Sya (born Daniella Sya Yeng Yeng on 8 August 1988 in Kedah), Raised in Kuala Lumpur is a Malaysian actress, television presenter, model and radio announcer on Singapore's Lush 99.5FM.

Dougie Colon

Dougie David Colon (pronounced 'cologne') is a British puppet and television presenter best known as the presenter of the BBC One comedy series That Puppet Game Show in 2013.

Estuary English

The term "Estuary English" is sometimes used with pejorative connotations: Sally Gunnell, a former Olympic athlete who became a television presenter for Channel 4 and the BBC, quit the BBC, announcing she felt "very undermined" by the network's lack of support after she was widely criticised for her "uninspiring interview style" and "awful estuary English".

Gerald Stone

Over the years, Stone's award winning 60 Minutes revolutionised Australian current affairs reporting and enhanced the careers of Ray Martin, Ian Leslie, George Negus, and later Jana Wendt.

Grand Popo Football Club

Grand Popo Football Club are a French electronic music group of a DJ/book-loving television presenter/chat show host and producer/classically-trained pianist who studied at the National Conservatory in Paris, respectively.

Irene Grandi

In 2004, she made her debut as television presenter with Marco Maccarini at the Festivalbar.

Jason Cameron

Jason Cameron (born April 19, 1969) is an American television presenter and actor most notable for his role on the TLC reality show, While You Were Out and is currently hosting Man Caves and Desperate Landscapes for the DIY Network.

Jeanne Little

She was a guest on the Midday with Ray Martin and her appearance on the BBC's Michael Parkinson variety show so startled London critics she had the London Evening News saying: "What a woman! With her in the house you wouldn't want a TV."

Joe Crowley

Joe Crowley is a British television presenter and broadcast journalist.

Jorge Barón

Jorge Barón (born Jorge Eliécer Varón 29 June 1948 in Ibagué) is a Colombian television presenter, and media personality and businessman.

Josonia Palaitis

Other prominent people she has painted include Justice Michael Kirby, musician James Morrison, journalist Paddy McGuinness, television presenter Ray Martin, Cardinal Edward Clancy, and author Robert Kiyosaki.

Junior Showtime

Presented by Bobby Bennett from the Leeds City Varieties theatre, the show consisted of song and dance routines and featured a number of performers who would go on to stardom in Britain including Joe Longthorne, Pauline Quirke, Kathryn Apanowicz, Bonnie Langford, Janet Kay, Mark Curry and Malandra Burrows, later of Emmerdale.

Kate Fraser

During that time, she was also a presenter of Grampian Headlines (short local news bulletins), The Birthday Spot, the business interview programme The Buck Stops Here and the BAFTA-nominated Saturday morning children's programme Wize Up, alongside announcing colleagues Rachael Robertson and Scott Brown.

Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

#"Territorial Pissings" (In two parts: 1991.12.06 - UK TV show Jonathan Ross / 1991.11.25 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland)

Lonnie Lee

At this time, Lee made his first of many television appearances on the ABC's rock and roll television show Six O'Clock Rock as well as Bandstand compered by Brian Henderson.

Marcha

Marcha (born Marga Groeneveld, 2 July 1956, Lattrop, Overijssel), also known as Marga Bult, is a Dutch singer and television presenter, who has been a member of the groups Tulip, Babe and Dutch Divas and is also known for her participation in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest.

Matthew Wright

In 2002, Wright named John Leslie live on air as the television presenter being linked to the alleged rape of Ulrika Jonsson.

Mohd Shakir Shaari

On 9 December 2010, Shakir had married with Nurul Fatiha Abd Hamid, former national artistic gymnastics athletes who working as television presenter for RTM.

Penny Mallory

Mallory is also a television presenter; she co-anchored Channel 4's motoring programme Driven alongside Mike Brewer and Jason Plato and Accident Black Spot.

Peter Overton

Peter also filed weekday news updates from the newsroom during Brian Henderson's tenure as presenter of National Nine News in Sydney.

In January 2009, Overton was appointed presenter of Nine News Sydney replacing Mark Ferguson following poor ratings.

Raphael Honigstein

Honigstein regularly appears on the Guardian Podcast Football Weekly and BT Sport television programme Sunday Night Football, both hosted by James Richardson, where he gives updates on German football.

Roger Climpson

He got the job at Nine after asking his friend Brian Henderson to have a word with the head of the network, Bruce Gyngell.

Rozina Ali

Rozina Shahzady Ali (born 21 October 1967) is an English microvascular reconstructive plastic surgeon and consultant with a specialist interest in breast reconstruction, and television presenter.

Shadowplayers

Other featured artists include members of Cabaret Voltaire, Crispy Ambulance, Biting Tongues, Minny Pops, The Names, Swamp Children, Thick Pigeon, and Killing Joke, as well as contributions from Richard Boon, Annik Honoré, Lindsay Reade, and Richard Jobson.

Sheree Mutton

Sheree Mutton (born 26 August 1988) is an Australian journalist, television presenter and model, perhaps best known for appearing on Fashion TV alongside fashion designer Peter Morrissey.

Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II

Among the places visited during the national trips were numerous schools, which were the subject of a television special hosted by presenter Valerie Singleton.

Six O'Clock Rock

Inspired by the BBC program 6.5 Special, it had a similar format to its rival on the TCN9 network, Bandstand compered by Brian Henderson.

Stuart Miles

Stuart presented with Diane-Louise Jordan, Tim Vincent, Katy Hill, Romana D'Annunzio, Richard Bacon, Konnie Huq and Simon Thomas.

The Absolute Game

Richard Jobson, Skids' lead singer, later stated that this title had been taken from Dirk Bogarde's autobiography and was not based on the Nazi slogan Kraft durch Freude.

The Flipside of Dominick Hide

The play's theme, "You'd Better Believe It, Babe" was written by Richard Jones, and performed by his band, Meal Ticket.

Themes in Blade Runner

"That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time," Ford told interviewer Jonathan Ross during a BBC1 Hollywood Greats segment.

Trisha Goddard

After emigrating to Australia, she worked as a television presenter (most notably on the ABC's The 7.30 Report) and also as a host of the children's program Play School.

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Opinions on each song and performance were given by a panel consisting of four celebrities: singer Kelly Osbourne, radio and television show host Jonathan Ross, television presenter Fearne Cotton, and Strictly Come Dancing panellist Bruno Tonioli.

Vision Australia

Over the years there have been many Australian favourites who have performed at this event including Rolf Harris, Hugh Jackman, Tina Arena, John Farnham, Debra Byrne, Olivia Newton-John, Lee Kernaghan, Judith Durham, Marina Prior, Denis Walter, Douglas Heywood, Silvie Paladino, Hi-5, Humphrey B Bear, Anthony Callea and of course long-time host Ray Martin.


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Alexander de Cadenet

His sister is television presenter and photographer Amanda de Cadenet and his father is racing driver Alain de Cadenet.

Andy Barter

Andy Barter is a photographer living and working in London, where he lives with his partner Psychologist, and Television Presenter Laverne Antrobus and their three children.

Bamber Gascoyne

Bamber Gascoigne (born 1935), British television presenter and author

Brian Taylor

Brian Hope-Taylor (1923–2001), British historian and television presenter

Chadwyck-Healey baronets

The television presenter Cherry Healey is descended from the 4th Baronet, her grandfather.

Château de l'Empéri

One such re-enactment was performed by the famous television presenter Jean-Pierre Foucault.

Chris Vacher

Chris Vacher (born 1951) is a British television presenter, best known as a long-serving main anchor of BBC West's flagship regional news programme Points West for 28 years.

Coia

Paul Coia (born 1955), Scottish television presenter and continuity announcer

Dean Holden

In June 2006, Holden married television presenter Danielle Nicholls.

Denise Biellmann

She participated in Pro7 Season 1, partnered with television presenter Pierre Geisensetter, and in Season 2, partnered with actor Patrick Bach.

Eddie McGuire

Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM (born 29 October 1964) is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network.

Gaby Papenburg

Gaby Papenburg (born 27 February 1960 in Walsrode) is a German sport television reporter and television presenter.

Galway International Oyster Festival

Guests of Honour at this event have included television presenter Gay Byrne, retired Taoiseach Charles Haughey, international snooker player, Ken Doherty and chefs Clodagh McKenna, Richard Corrigan and Martin Shanahan.

Ģirts

Ģirts Līcis (born 1970), a Latvian entrepreneur and television presenter

Guildford High School

Louise Roe, television presenter, fashion journalist and model

Hascombe Court

It was owned by the broadcaster and television presenter Chris Evans, until sold to Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky who, in turn, sold it to Ron Dennis, the boss of Formula One racing team, McLaren F1.

Ian Stirling

Iain Stirling (born 1988), Scottish comedian, writer and television presenter

Jane Zemiro

Zemiro is the mother of actor and television presenter Julia Zemiro.

Jobbins

Sheridan Jobbins (born 1959), Australian journalist, television presenter and screenwriter

José Eduardo Fialho Gouveia

He is son of Fialho Gouveia (1935 - 2004), also a television presenter, and Beatriz.

Karl Moik

Moik became famous in Austria and Germany as the television presenter of Musikantenstadl on Austrian broadcaster ORF.

Kevin MacLeod

Kevin McCloud, British designer, writer and television presenter

Kogarah railway station

The Australian critic and television presenter Clive James has sarcastically described it as a symphony in reinforced concrete outstripping even a Todt Organization WWII flak emplacement for brutalist elegance.

L'envie d'aimer

In 2007, Greek French television presenter Nikos Aliagas recorded a Greek version of the song with Elena Paparizou, for his Greek duet album titled Rendez-Vous.

Leigh-on-Mendip

Leigh on Mendip was home to the television presenter Kevin McCloud, whom is known best from the UK television series; Grand Designs.

Lugner

Christina “Mausi” Lugner, Austrian television presenter and former wife of Richard “Mörtel” Lugner

Lupita D'Alessio

She is the daughter of television presenter Poncho D'Alessio and was previously married to actors Jorge Vargas and Sabú (from Argentina) as well as to footballers Carlos Reinoso (from Chile) and Julio Canessa (from Uruguay), musician César Gómez and model Christian Rössen (from Germany).

Madeleine Bordallo

In the 1950s and 1960s, Bordallo was a television presenter for KUAM-TV, the NBC affiliate that was the first television station on Guam.

Marcus Whelan

Whelan is also the grandfather of actress and television presenter Nicky Whelan.

McCausland

Gary McCausland (1968-), Northern Irish television presenter and property developer

McManners

Hugh McManners (born 1952), English television presenter and writer

Moyle Park College

Notable past pupils include former Irish politician and government minister John Curran,Olympic boxer Kenneth Egan, television presenter Brian Ormond.

Oddie

Bill Oddie, member of The Goodies, ornithologist and television presenter

Peter Jones

Peter Owen-Jones (born 1957), English Anglican clergyman, author and television presenter

Reyne

David Reyne (born 1959), Australian actor, musician and television presenter

Richard Huish College, Taunton

Andrew Castle, former British number one tennis player and television presenter.

Rufus Wright

He is the younger brother of Lance Gerrard-Wright, second husband of the television presenter, Ulrika Jonsson, whom he met on the reality television show, Mr.

Sebastián Pinto

He is the son of the journalist and television presenter Carlos Pinto.

Şen

Gülhan Şen, Turkish television presenter, producer, and speaker

This Is Nightlive

One of the few people to praise the show was the former TV3 television presenter Lorraine Keane who was apparently parodied in it.

Through Hell and High Water

Five half-hour morning programmes (9.30–10am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in "Spirit of EDF Energy", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2.

Uhlmann

Chris Uhlmann (born 1960), Australian television presenter and journalist

Van Thielen

Francesca Vanthielen (born 1972), Belgian actress, television presenter and economist

Vanessa Collingridge

In 2000 she quit her television presenter's job on Tonight with Trevor McDonald to author two biographies, one of eighteenth century explorer James Cook and one of Celtic warrior queen Boudica.

Vautin

Paul Vautin (born 1959), Australian rugby league player, coach and television presenter

Vipond

Dougie Vipond (born 1966), Scottish musician and television presenter

Welke

Oliver Welke (born 1966), German television presenter and comedian

Wolfgang Reitzle

In September 2001, he married television presenter Nina Ruge.