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Jayne Middlemiss

Jayne Middlemiss (born 1970 or 1971) is an English television and radio presenter. She began presenting music television shows including The O Zone and Top of the Pops in the mid-1990s, as well as other television and radio shows, including on BBC Radio 6 Music. She has won both Celebrity MasterChef and reality show Celebrity Love Island.

Middlemiss was born and raised in the town of Bedlington in Northumberland. Her father was a miner and her mother was a factory worker. She attended Whitley Memorial C of E First School, followed by Meadowdale Middle School and later Bedlingtonshire Community High School.

Middlemiss first worked in an electrical store, but left for London. In 1991, Middlemiss started out as a glamour model; within a year, she left that behind to pursue a career in the media.

She has since appeared in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll, at 77 (1998), 75 (1999) and 74 (2000).

Middlemiss worked for Noel Edmonds and Chris Evans before briefly working as a nanny, a shop assistant and a waitress. She worked for only two weeks as a trainee researcher on GMTV with Peter McHugh, before gaining her first presenting job on music show The O Zone with Jamie Theakston from 1995. She gained the audition for The O Zone after she met presenter Toby Anstis at a party and he gave her tape to the producer. She then presented the Smash Hits Awards, The Phone Zone and Top of the Pops and its spin-off radio show on BBC Radio 1. She also regularly covered Jo Whiley's show and various other programmes on the same station.[citation needed]

After hosting live coverage of Glastonbury Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Middlemiss presented Rough Cut and Dog's Balearics. She was one of the original presenters on the new digital station BBC Radio 6 Music in 2002, presenting the Music Week, where she remained until she left in April 2004.[citation needed]

Middlemiss began presenting fashion show She's Gotta Have It in 2000, going on to front three series. She went on to present some of the BBC's Holiday – On a Shoestring programmes, to destinations across the globe before co-hosting the LA Pool Party series with Lisa Snowdon, which won a TRIC Award. In 2003, Middlemiss was a panellist on ITV's Loose Women.

In 2004, for Five TV, Middlemiss presented the dating show What Women Want, before co-presenting the seventh series of Robot Wars, alongside Craig Charles and The Games with Jamie Theakston.

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