- John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio.
- Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943 in Guildford, Surrey) is an award winning English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first presenter to appear on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!".
- Fearne Cotton
She got interested in dance and drama while she was in school. After she took part in a countrywide talent show, Fearne got several offers to work in TV shows. Thus, she debuted on TV in 1998 with the show "The Disney Spot", followed by another show "Diggit". So far, Fearne Cotton had already began what was about to be a successful TV career. Fearne Cotton worked in children TV shows like "Draw Your Own Toons" and "Mouse", a show based on computers.
- Emma Bunton
Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Emma is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, Spice Girls. Emma was known as "Baby Spice", in the group, as she was the youngest member, had an "innocent" demeanour, and often wore "baby doll" dresses.
- Jimmy Savile
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE, KCSG (born 31 October 1926), commonly known as Jimmy 'Now Then, Now Then, Hows About That Then, Jingle Jangle Jewellery Jewellery' Savile, is an English DJ, actor and television personality. He is best known for his BBC television show "Jim'll Fix It", in which he made the wishes of members of the public (mainly children) come true, …
- Eddie Argos
Eddie Argos is the 27 year-old lead singer of the British band Art Brut, and originally the frontman of The Art Goblins (with whom he still performs occasionally). Born in Weymouth, England, moved to Poole, Dorset as a young child. He is an ex-goth, ex-Mental health key worker and former traffic warden. He is notorious for his zany stage show, where he has played the vacuum, jumped rope with his microphone wire, escaped from a sack, …
- Midge Ure
Midge Ure OBE (born James Ure on October 10 1953 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a rock and roll guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Scotland, who had particular success in the 1970s and 1980s. His stage name, Midge, is a phonemic reversal of his real name, Jim.
- Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944) is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a successful musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of film, theatre and television roles and also producing films. Daltrey and his second wife, former model Heather Taylor, have two daughters, Rosie and Willow, and a son, …
- Chrissie Hynde
Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951 in Akron, Ohio) is an American rock musician, best known as the leader of the band The Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and the only constant member of the band throughout its history. __TOC_
- Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis (born in Buxton, Derbyshire on 25 May 1945) also known professionally as DLT, is a British radio presenter, best known for his career on BBC Radio 1.
- Paul Hardcastle
Paul Hardcastle (born December 10 1957, in London) is an English composer and musician specializing in the synthesizer. In the early 1980s he played keyboards on several singles on the Oval label by the dance music groups Direct Drive and First Light, before going solo. He achieved some acclaim for his early singles, notably the popular instrumental "Rainforest" 1984, but came to greater prominence in 1985 with the groundbreaking "19", …
- Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman MBE (6 July 1927 - 27 November, 2006), was a well-known disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.
- Jamie Theakston
Jamie Theakston (born 21 December 1970 in Ditchling, East Sussex) is a popular English television and radio presenter and producer. He was educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Lancing College and the University of North London, which has now amalgamated into the London Metropolitan University. Before embarking on a broadcasting career, he worked for Christies Auctioneers. He is a supporter of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C..
- Mark Goodier
Mark Goodier (born 28th June 1961 in Rhodesia) is a British radio disc jockey.
- Gail Porter
Gail Porter (born March 23 1971 at the Simpson's Memorial Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland), sometimes known by her married name Gail Hipgrave, is a British television presenter who became widely known after presenting "Fully Booked" in the late 1990s.The large picture on the left is Gail in 1999. Porter has tended to present family-friendly television programmes, or ones aimed directly at children, for example "The Movie Chart Show", …
- Reggie Yates
Reginald "Reggie" Yates (born 31 May 1983 in Archway, London, England) is an English actor, television presenter and radio DJ.
- Andi Peters
Andi Peters (born 29 July 1970 in Chelsea, London) is a English television presenter and executive. He first found fame as a television presenter and was subsequently employed as a senior TV executive. He is mostly associated with shows for young people. Initially he presented "Freetime", on ITV, but reached a much wider audience with Edd the Duck and Wilson (an arm purporting to be part of a butler) in "The Broom Cupboard" slot on Children's BBC, …
- Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn (born September 26, 1962, in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire) is an English pop singer and songwriter. She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl. She grew up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire and studied English at the University of Hull, where she graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours. She lives with her EBTG partner Ben Watt in North London. The couple have twin daughters born in 1998, and a son born in 2001.
- Janice Long
Janice Long (born April 5, 1955) is a English radio broadcaster working on BBC Radio 2. Her show is on Sunday from midnight and Monday-Thursday at 00:30. She is the sister of TV personality Keith Chegwin.
- Marti Pellow
Marti Pellow (born Mark McLachlan on 23 March, 1965 in Clydebank) is the lead singer of the Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet. He has also achieved a successful solo career. Pellow enjoyed success with Wet Wet Wet throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. However, in 1997 drummer Tommy Cunningham left the band and its success waned immediately. Pellow was by this time suffering from an addiction to heroin. He famously quoted, on finally beating the drug, …
- Mick Hucknall
Michael James Hucknall (born 8 June 1960 in, Manchester, England) is a British singer. Hucknall (also known as "Mick 'Red' Hucknall") is the lead singer of British band Simply Red.
- Richard Skinner
Richard Skinner (born December 26, 1951) is a British radio and television broadcaster. The only presenter to have fronted the three BBC 'flagship' programmes "Whistle Test", "Top Of The Pops" and Radio 1's Top 40.
- Pete Murray
Peter ("Pete") Murray (born Peter Murray James on 19 September 1925) is a British radio and television presenter and a stage and screen actor. His broadcasting career spanned over 50 years. Peter Murray joined the English service of Radio Luxembourg in 1949 or 1950 as one of its resident announcers in the Grand Duchy, and remained there until 1956. Back in London, and now calling himself "Pete" rather than "Peter", …
- Melanie Chisholm
Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born January 12, 1974 in Whiston, Merseyside) is an English singer-songwriter most famous as one of the five members of the British girl group the Spice Girls, where she is known as "Sporty Spice". She is also known as Melanie C or Mel C. As a solo artist she has released four albums and was nominated for a BRIT Award. Chisholm has co-written eleven UK number-one singles - second only to Madonna for a female artist.
- Dave Hill
Dave Hill (born David John Hill, 4 April 1946, in Fleet Castle, Nr Kingsbridge, Devon, England) is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the English glam rock group, Slade. Born in Devon the son of a mechanic, he moved with his parents to the Black Country area when he was only a year old. There he attended Springdale Primary school and Highfields Secondary Modern school.
- Josie D'Arby
Josie D'Arby (born October 3 1972) is a British actress and television presenter from Newport, South Wales. She attended the Anna Scher Theatre School, and later the London School of Journalism. D'Arby began a presenting career while still a student of acting at RADA. In the early 1990s she presented on Children's BBC and then on "SMart".
- Sarah Cawood
Sarah Cawood (born 7 August 1972 in London) is an English television presenter. She was educated at Stamford High School near Peterborough, England. Between 1995 and 1996 she worked as a presenter for Nickelodeon UK. In 1997, she moved on to present "The Girlie Show". From 1998-2000, she presented the Karaoke quiz, "Night Fever". She has also presented on MTV, "Live & Kicking" and "Top of the Pops".
- David Jensen
David "Kid" Jensen (July 4, 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born British radio DJ.
- David Jacobs
David Jacobs is a British broadcaster, who became known as a disc jockey in the 1950s. Jacobs served in the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1947, and first broadcast on "Navy Mixture" in 1944. He was an announcer on the Forces Broadcasting Service before becoming Chief Announcer on Radio SEAC in Ceylon (1945-47), graduating to Assistant Station Director. As a BBC Staff Announcer in the early 1950’s, …
- Keith Allen
Keith Philip George Allen (born 2 June 1953 in Gorseinon, near Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer.
- Siobhan Fahey
Siobhan Fahey (born Siobhan Maire Deidre Fahey on September 10, 1958) was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister.
- Marie Fredriksson
Marie Fredriksson is a Swedish musician best known as the lead singer of the Swedish pop duo Roxette. She was born on May 30, 1958, in Össjö, Sweden.
- Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton (born February 7, 1973 in Cheltenham) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known in the UK as the first presenter of "The X Factor" and known internationally as a presenter of the VH1 coverage of the "Concert for Diana". She has also appeared as a guest on "American Idol".
- Ron Mael
Ron Mael (born Ronald David Mael, August 12 1947, in Culver City, California), with his younger brother Russell, is in the popular duo Sparks. Ron plays keyboard and writes the songs. When the band hit the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, he was well-known for his strange appearance, often standing motionless over his keyboard sporting his toothbrush moustache. Ron and his brother once guested on the UK television show, 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks'.
- Annie Mac
Annie MacManus (better known as Annie Mac) is a disc jockey who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom which airs at 10pm (British time) on Friday evenings. Born on 18 July 1978 in Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, Annie moved to Belfast at the age of seventeen to study at the Queen's University (QUB). While at QUB she regularly frequented Shine, a club within the university's student union.
- Liz Bonnin
Liz Bonnin is an Irish television presenter currently working in the UK. She first started her career presenting on RTÉ Television in the Republic of Ireland while later moving to the UK to present on a number of TV channels. She was also part of an Irish girl pop group named "Chill". In 2002 she became one of the presenters of the Channel 4 morning show, "RI:SE". In the same year she became a regular presenter on "Top of the Pops".
- Nia Peeples
Nia Peeples joined the cast of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS in April, 2007 as Karen Taylor , a savvy political operative who, after managing Nikki Newman 's (Melody Thomas Scott ) senatorial campaign, landed a powerful executive position at Newman Enterprises. Peeples found success in her first starring role on the hit television series Fame.
- Samantha Juste
Samantha Juste, born Sandra Slater on 31 May 1944, was a fashion model who became widely known on British television in the mid 1960s as the “disc girl” on BBC’s "Top of the Pops". In 1968 she married Micky Dolenz of the Monkees. Their daughter is the actress Ami Dolenz.
- Pat Sharp
Pat Sharp, sometimes nicknamed Patman, (born October 25 1961) is an English radio and television presenter and disk jockey. In Britain he is known mainly for his work on 1990s childrens' television programme "Fun House", and his radio shows, while in continental Europe he was best remembered as the most famous of Sky Channel's VJs. He was awarded the Sony Award in 1992 for best DJ. Sharp is married and has three children.
- Declan Donnelly
Declan Joseph Oliver "Dec" Donnelly is one half of the acting and television presenting duo "Ant & Dec" alongside Ant McPartlin. He came to prominence in the children's drama series "Byker Grove" and as one half of the pop duo PJ & Duncan. He has regularly appeared on British television from "Top of the Pops" to the 2002 "Tribute to The Likely Lads". In 2003, he broke up with long term fiancée and childhood sweetheart Clare Buckfield, …