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Vanessa Feltz
Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television presenter, broadcaster, and journalist. She has hosted numerous versions of her own chat shows and appeared on various television shows, including Vanessa (1994–1998, 2025), The Big Breakfast (1996–1998), The Vanessa Show (1999, 2011), Celebrity Big Brother (2001), The Wright Stuff (2003–2005), This Morning (2006–2025), and Strictly Come Dancing (2013).
Feltz presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2 from 2011 to 2022 and also hosted the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London. As of December 2024 Feltz works for LBC.
Vanessa Feltz was born in a hospital on the Holloway Road, and grew up on Pine Grove in Totteridge. She has a sister, Julia, who is 3 years her junior. During her broadcasting career, she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London" and her middle class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof". Her father, Norman, was in the lingerie business.
Feltz was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, an independent school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. She then read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree.
Feltz was the first female columnist for The Jewish Chronicle and later joined the Daily Mirror. She wrote her first book at this time entitled What Are These Strawberries Doing on My Nipples? I Need Them for the Fruit Salad.
Feltz replaced Paula Yates on Channel 4's morning TV show The Big Breakfast, presenting a regular item where she interviewed celebrities whilst lying on a bed. She has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Rolf Harris while interviewing him on the programme. In 1997, Feltz was tricked by the spoof TV show Brass Eye. She also served as a magistrate from the age of 28, but was asked to stand down when she became recognisable by the defendants from her TV appearances.
She presented the ITV daytime television chat show, Vanessa, made by Anglia Television. She moved to the BBC to host a similar show, The Vanessa Show, in 1998 in a reported £2.7 million deal. ITV replaced her show with Trisha.
In 1999, The Vanessa Show suffered from bad publicity as some guests were alleged to have been actors and the show was cancelled soon afterwards.
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Vanessa Feltz
Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television presenter, broadcaster, and journalist. She has hosted numerous versions of her own chat shows and appeared on various television shows, including Vanessa (1994–1998, 2025), The Big Breakfast (1996–1998), The Vanessa Show (1999, 2011), Celebrity Big Brother (2001), The Wright Stuff (2003–2005), This Morning (2006–2025), and Strictly Come Dancing (2013).
Feltz presented an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2 from 2011 to 2022 and also hosted the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London. As of December 2024 Feltz works for LBC.
Vanessa Feltz was born in a hospital on the Holloway Road, and grew up on Pine Grove in Totteridge. She has a sister, Julia, who is 3 years her junior. During her broadcasting career, she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London" and her middle class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof". Her father, Norman, was in the lingerie business.
Feltz was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, an independent school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. She then read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree.
Feltz was the first female columnist for The Jewish Chronicle and later joined the Daily Mirror. She wrote her first book at this time entitled What Are These Strawberries Doing on My Nipples? I Need Them for the Fruit Salad.
Feltz replaced Paula Yates on Channel 4's morning TV show The Big Breakfast, presenting a regular item where she interviewed celebrities whilst lying on a bed. She has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Rolf Harris while interviewing him on the programme. In 1997, Feltz was tricked by the spoof TV show Brass Eye. She also served as a magistrate from the age of 28, but was asked to stand down when she became recognisable by the defendants from her TV appearances.
She presented the ITV daytime television chat show, Vanessa, made by Anglia Television. She moved to the BBC to host a similar show, The Vanessa Show, in 1998 in a reported £2.7 million deal. ITV replaced her show with Trisha.
In 1999, The Vanessa Show suffered from bad publicity as some guests were alleged to have been actors and the show was cancelled soon afterwards.
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