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Resumé

 

 

AWARDS

Sony Gold Award for documentary: “For Your Ears Only” BBC Radio 2: The Music Special Award

 

JOURNALIST - TV, PRINT, RADIO - NEW YORK, USA

April 2012 - present

BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING, CHANNEL 4 (UK), THE ACADEMY AWARDS, GRAZIA MAGAZINE, COMPANY MAGAZINE, SIRIUS XM, LBC RADIO 97.3 

  • Regular contributor of North American stories for Grazia Magazine (UK's biggest Women's Mag)

  • Interviewing stars for documentaries and making packages on events; NY Comic Con, HBO Girls Premiere.

  • Interviewing Lauren Lazin for the Student Academy Awards

  • SIRIUS XM - Comedy Network “Raw Dog”; Guest co-host

  • Hurricane Sandy correspondent for the James Whale Show, LBC Radio 97.3, London

 

WRITER/JOURNALIST  - OK! MAGAZINE - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 

Feb-May 2011

Writer for the world’s biggest entertainment magazine

 

TV ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - LONDON, UK

May/June 2010

Pre production and on-set shoot for BBC 2 TV Youth Drama “The Cut”

 

RADIO EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - GUEST PRESENTER - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

May 2009-July 2011: ABC Triple J 

  • Creative Producer National Campaigns; Hottest 100 of All Time (2009) & Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time (2011)

  • National Drive time show, Mornings, Evenings

  • Music News

  • Outside Broadcasts: Music Festivals; Splendour in the Grass & Big Day Out

  • Launched brand new digital station of new music “Triple j Unearthed”

 

March 2006-January 2009: Triple M

  • Executive Producer of Triple M’s national Drive time show “Wil & Lehmo”

  • Friday guest presenter

 

September 2005-2009: Bondi FM

  • Guest co-host weekend Breakfast Show with Scuba

  • Wednesday night’s Fully Grown

 

November 2005-January 2007: BBC Radio 1 & 5

  • Correspondent for BBC on “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”:

  • Live link-ups, interviews and reports on the TV Show for a national UK audience across multiple BBC networks

  • Correspondent at Australia’s ARIAs

  • Correspondent Kylie Monogue’s breast cancer operation from Melbourne, Australia

  • Correspondent Neighbours’ 20th Anniversary

  • Correspondent Big Day Out music Festival 2006 & 2007

 

RADIO JOURNALIST - PRESENTER - CORRESPONDENT - LONDON, UK

March 2002-April 2005: BBC Radio 1 

Anchored, wrote, edited and studio produced Radio 1’s National Nightly Entertainment News

 

Anchored Awards Ceremonies including:

  • The Oscars 2004

  • Brit Awards 2003 / 2004 / 2005

  • NME Awards 2003 / 2004 / 2005

  • Empire Film Awards 2004

  • Mercury Music Prize 2003 / 2004

  • Q Awards 2004

  • Ivor Novellos 2004

  • Kerrang Awards 2002

 

Anchored Radio 1’s coverage of music festivals: Glastonbury, Creamfields, V Festival, T in the Park - annually

  • Covered Berlin Film Festival 2004

  • Covered Berlin Love Parade 2003

  • Anchored Pink Panther press junket from Paris, France with Steve Martin, Beyonce Knowles, Kevin Kline

 

Regularly anchored film premiers from London’s Leicester Square interviewing the casts of:

  • Lord of the Rings trilogy

  • Love Actually

  • Maid in Manhattan

  • Robots

  • Spongebob Squarepants

  • Four Feathers

  • Be Cool

 

PRODUCER & GUEST CO-HOST BBC RADIO 1 BREAKFAST SHOW with SARA COX - LONDON, UK

March 2000-March 2002-Daily guest co-host

Produced inserts for the daily show including:

  • Covered events; The Brit Awards, The Q Awards, The Ivor Novello Awards with Sara Cox

  • Introduced Steve Merchant (co-creator of The Office) to the breakfast show audience as an inept work-experience character, covering events; TV Baftas, London Mardi Gras

 

STARS & CELEBRITIES INTERVIEWED

Film

Kevin Bacon, Sir Michael Caine, Sir Ian McKellen, Dustin Hoffman, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, James MacAvoy, Keira Knightly, Cate Blanchette, Bruce Willis, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Edward Norton,  Jude Law, Natalie Portman,  Pierce Brosnan, Juliette Lewis, Ray Winstone, Samantha Morton, Jason Statham, Alessandro Nivola, Timothy Spall, Nathan Lane, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Rupert Grint, John Cleese, Reese Witherspoon, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Michael Keaton, Russell Brand, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson, Seth Green, Mark Wahlberg, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robert Wagner, Verne Troyer, Matthew Lillard, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Owen Wilson

 

Music

Sir Paul McCartney, Wayne Coyen, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, P Diddy, Franz Ferdinand, Gwen Stefani, Timbaland, Missy Elliot, Jay-Z, Massive Attack, Coldplay - Chris Martin, Kings of Leon, Foo Fighter - Dave Grohl, Robbie Williams, The White Stripes - Jack White, Phoenix, Dizzee Rascal, Pink, Amy Winehouse, Wyclef Jean, Mike Skinner,   Kylie & Danni Minogue, Norman Cook, Basement Jaxx, Goldfrapp, Soulwax, Kasabian, Stereophonics, Keene, Snow Patrol, Radiohead, Travis, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales

 

Television

Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, David Morrissey, Stephen Amell, Simon Cowell, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Chalke, Monica Potter, Carol Thatcher, Sid Owen, Peter Kaye, Jack Dee, Mark Little, Natalie Imbruglia, David Hasselhoff

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