- Michael Jackson
Michael Richard Jackson (born February 11 1958) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001.
- Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman MBE (born 24 December 1960 in Bedford) is an English television personality and mathematician best known for being a long-standing co-presenter of Channel 4 game show "Countdown". She was awarded an MBE in June 2000.
- Graham Norton
Graham Norton, (born Graham Walker on 4 April 1963 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor, comedian and television presenter. He achieved fame as a broadcaster on Britain's Channel 4 and also through his role as Father Noel Furlong in the critically acclaimed television series "Father Ted". Though he only appeared in three episodes, Norton's performance as Father Noel proved extremely popular with viewers.
- Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born 16 March 1977) is a Welsh television presenter and model. He is most well known for presenting Channel 4's T4 strand of programmes. He started as a model for "Esquire", he then moved into presenting starting with "The Pop Factory Awards" and "99 Things To Do Before You Die". Jones has since become a regular feature on Channel 4's weekend entertainment programme "T4".
- Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2006, and a former chief executive of Channel 4. Born in London and brought up in Hertfordshire, he went to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and Merton College, Oxford, where he took a first in English. He now lives in Oxford with his American wife Jane, and has three children.
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born January 14 1965) is a British celebrity chef and TV presenter, noted for his mildly eccentric antics and back-to-nature philosophy. Born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, Fearnley-Whittingstall first became interested in cookery as a young child but he chose to study at St Peter's College, Oxford University, after attending Eton College, …
- Kevin McCloud
Kevin McCloud (born May 8 1959) is a British designer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his work on the Channel 4 series "Grand Designs". He studied History of Art at Cambridge University, where he was also a member of the Footlights society. After graduating, he worked as a theatre designer, then set up his own practice in interior and lighting design. His work includes the carved and painted rococo-style ceiling in the Food Halls at Harrods.
- Mark Thomas
Mark Clifford Thomas (born 11 April, 1963) is an English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London. He first came to light as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" in the late 1980s. He is best known for political stunts on his show, "The Mark Thomas Comedy Product" on Channel 4.
- Alexa Chung
Alexa Chung (born November 5, 1983) is an English television presenter, actress and former model. She currently co-hosts T4's "Popworld" on Channel 4 and recently co-starred in Ben Elton's comedy series "Get A Grip" for ITV.
- Sarah Beeny
Sarah Lucinda Beeny is a British television presenter who is best known for presenting the Channel 4 property shows "Property Ladder", "Streets Ahead" and "Britain’s Best Homes". In 2006 Sarah Beeny presented another Channel 4 programme "One Year to Pay Off Your Mortgage". She has written a number of books to accompany the series and is the founder of the popular UK dating website Mysinglefriend.
- Andy Duncan
Andy Duncan (born July 31 1962) is the chief executive of Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom. He was previously Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences at the BBC. Duncan graduated with a BSc in Management Sciences from UMIST in Manchester. In 1984 Duncan joined Unilever and worked his way up through various divisions of the company. In 1995 he was appointed Van Den Bergh Foods Business Unit Chairman and Marketing Controller for spreads and margarines.
- Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson , the series presenter, is probably best known for his role as Baldrick in Blackadder and as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Maid Marion and Her Merry Men , which he also wrote. He has a keen interest in history and archaeology - he is president of the Young Archaeologists' Club - and is particularly fascinated by ancient Greece and the biblical lands of the Middle East. Tony Robinson answers some of our questions
- Gillian McKeith
Gillian McKeith (born 1959) is a Scottish nutritionist, television presenter, and writer. She fronts Channel 4's "You Are What You Eat" and Granada Television's "Dr Gillian McKeith's Feel Fab Forever" in the UK. She writes a weekly column for "Reveal" magazine and is the author of a number of books about nutrition, including "You Are What You Eat: The Plan That Will Change Your Life" (2004).
- Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton (born May 13, 1977) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. Morton began her career as a child actor. At 13 she joined the Central Junior Television Workshop. At 16 she moved to London and appeared in plays at the Royal Court Theatre, also securing an early break as a guest star in an episode of "Cracker". Although she applied to institutions such as RADA, she received no further formal training.
- Tess Daly
Helen Elizabeth Tess Daly or Tess Daly (sometimes known as Tess Kay) (born Stockport, England, 27 April 1971) is a television presenter, and is married to the presenter Vernon Kay. She grew up in Birch Vale, near New Mills, Derbyshire. In 1990 she appeared in two Duran Duran videos for the songs "Serious" and "Violence of Summer", both from the album "Liberty".
- James McAvoy
James Andrew McAvoy (April 21, 1979) is a BAFTA-nominated Scottish actor.
- Peter Oborne
Peter Alan Oborne (born July 11 1957) is a journalist, commentator, and author. He was educated at Sherborne School, and is particularly known for his commentaries on the apparent hypocrisy of today's politicians. He is the author of a highly-critical biography of Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell and, in a different vein, …
- Martin Durkin
Martin Durkin is a television producer and director, most notably of television documentaries for Channel 4 in Britain. The perceived bias in many of his documentaries has caused consistent controversies. He is understood to have once been closely involved with the Revolutionary Communist Party and its later offshoots "Living Marxism" (or "LM magazine") and "Spiked", a magazine and associated political network which promotes libertarian views, …
- David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born 14 July 1974 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is best known as one half of the comedic duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb whom he met at Cambridge University. There they were both part of the Cambridge Footlights, of which Mitchell became President. Together the pair are most famous for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom "Peep Show" in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan.
- Dermot O'Leary
Sean Dermot Fintan O'Leary, Jr. (born 24 May, 1973 in Colchester, England), better known as Dermot O'Leary, is a British television and radio presenter. He was born to Irish Catholic immigrants, he was an altar boy and attended Catholic schools.
- Richard Whiteley
John Richard Whiteley, OBE, DL (28 December 1943 - 26 June 2005) was an English television presenter and journalist. He was most famous for his 23-year stint as presenter of "Countdown", a letters and numbers arrangement game show broadcast daily on Channel 4. An edition of "Countdown" was the launch programme for Channel 4 at 4:45pm on 2 November 1982, and Whiteley was the first person to be seen on the channel, discounting a programme montage.
- Steve Richards
Steve Richards (born 1960), is a British TV presenter and chief political columnist for "The Independent" newspaper. Richards was educated at Christ's College, formerly a state grammar school, in Finchley, North London, and studied History at York University before securing a place on a journalism course at the London College of Printing. He worked in local radio and regional TV in Newcastle before becoming a BBC political correspondent in 1990.
- Phil Spencer
Phil Spencer is a British television presenter who appears with Kirstie Allsopp in a variety of home-buying programs on Channel 4. He also founded "Garrington Homefinders" in 1996, a sort of "Location, Location, Location" for paying clients.
- Kirstie Allsopp
Kirstie Mary Allsopp (born 31 August 1973 in Hampshire) is a British TV presenter best known for presenting Channel 4 property programmes "Location, Location, Location", "Relocation, Relocation", "Location Revisited" and "The Property Chain". All but the last were co-presented with Phil Spencer. She is the daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip and former chairman of Christie's, …
- Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson is the artist, producer and former musician with the band Sneaker Pimps. As an artist he has exhibited at the ICA in London and The CCA in Glasgow as well as producing music for films for Channel 4 and the BBC. As a producer he has produced with Sneaker Pimps, Client and Trash Money. Currently along with Chris Tate, he writes and produces for the band Trash Money. He is also a lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire in Popular Music.
- Adam Buxton
Adam Offord Buxton (born 7 June, 1969 in London) is an English comedian, who together with his comedy partner Joe Cornish wrote and presented the Channel 4 comedy series "The Adam and Joe Show".
- Paul Merton
Paul Martin (born 9 July 1957) is an English actor, BAFTA award-winning comedian and writer. He is more commonly known by the stage name Paul Merton, and is best known as a panellist on the BBC television show "Have I Got News for You" and Radio 4's "Just a Minute", as well as Channel 4's "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" in the first five series, and as the host of the BBC TV show "Room 101".
- Jaime Winstone
Jaime Margaret Winstone (born 1985) is a British actress best known for playing Becky in the gritty film "Kidulthood", and playing Lauren in the Channel 4 drama series "Goldplated".
- David Hall
David Hall (born in 1937) is a significant British video artist. He began as a sculptor exhibiting internationally, winning 1st prize at the Paris Biennale in 1965. In 1966 he was represented in the seminal minimal art show, Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum, New York. In 1967 he began working with photography and film and in 1969-70 video (the technology then becoming available outside the broadcast industry).
- John Lee
John Andre Lee is an English consultant histopathologist at Rotherham General Hospital and clinical professor of pathology at Hull York Medical School. Lee gained his medical degree, a BSc. and a Ph.D. in physiology at University College London. He is most notable to the wider public as co-presenter (with Gunther von Hagens) of "Anatomy for Beginners" (screened in the UK on Channel 4 in 2005) and "Autopsy: Life and Death" (Channel 4, 2006).
- Gary Glitter
Paul Francis Gadd aka Gary Glitter (born May 8 1944) is an English rock and pop singer and songwriter who had a string of chart successes with a collection of 1970s glam rock hits including "Rock and Roll parts 1 & 2", "I Love You Love Me Love", "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" and "Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again". He is currently in jail until August 2008 in Vietnam for child sexual abuse.
- Harry Enfield
Harry Enfield (born May 30, 1961 in Sussex, England) is an English comedian.
- Rory Bremner
Rory Bremner FKC (born 6 April 1961, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his political satire.
- Alex Zane
Alex Zane (born 3 March 1979 in Leeds, England), is a presenter, stand-up comedian and DJ.
- Amanda Lamb
Amanda Lamb (born 1972 in Portsmouth, Hampshire), is an English television presenter and former model.
- Miquita Oliver
Miquita Oliver (born 25 April 1984) is a British television presenter and a former child actress. Born in Paddington, London, her mother is former Rip Rig & Panic singer and television presenter Andrea Oliver. While still studying for her GCSEs she became presenter of Channel 4 music show Popworld in 2001, co-presenting with Simon Amstell. The pair were known for employing a great deal of sarcasm when interviewing their guests. She frequently fronts the T4 strand.
- Belle de Jour
Belle de Jour is the "nom de plume" of a person who claims to have been a London call girl or high class prostitute. Under this banner she maintains a successful blog, "Belle de Jour: diary of a London call girl" which by 2003 had achieved selection by "The Guardian" as their blog of the year and has given rise to two books published in both the UK and US. A television series based on the first book was in development with Channel 4 in the UK, …
- James Nesbitt
James Nesbitt (born January 15, 1965) is a Northern Irish actor who is best known for his roles in ITV's "Cold Feet" and the BBC's "Murphy's Law" as well as many television advertisements. He has also appeared in theatre and faced tabloid revelations about his private life. He is sometimes credited by his nickname, Jimmy.
- Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson (born 1962), is a British serial entrepreneur, best known for his dealings with Pizza Express. He is chairman of Channel 4, and writes a regular column for the Sunday Telegraph. Johnson calls himself a "projector", in line with the 17th century term for a man involved in many different businesses
- James Sutton
James Sutton (born 31 January 1983) is an English television actor, best known for playing the part of John-Paul McQueen in British Channel 4 series Hollyoaks since September 2006.