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Fearne Cotton Profile |
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Birth Date: September 3, 1982
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Birth Place: Northwood, Greater London, England, UK
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Birth Name: Fearne Cotton
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Biography |
Fearne Marie Cotton (born 3 September 1981) is an English
television presenter and DJ. Known for presenting a number
of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and Red
Nose Day, she can also now be heard co-hosting the BBC Radio
1 Weekend Breakfast show with Reggie Yates.
Born in Northwood, north-west London, Cotton grew up in the
nearby suburb of Eastcote. She was raised by Lyn and Mick
Cotton, and has a younger brother called Jamie. Although her
grandfather's cousin is former BBC executive Sir Bill
Cotton, she says she has not seen him since the age of five
and cites her rise to broadcasting fame as down to her own
hard work and discipline.
She attended Newnham Junior School in Eastcote and Haydon
School in Northwood.
Cotton began her career in children's television but has in
recent years been given higher-profile roles presenting
events such as Live 8 and the results for the Eurovision
Song Contest.
Self-described as a "mouthy little girl", Cotton began
taking ballet classes from the age of five and attended
weekend drama school at ten. After being discovered in a
nationwide talent search, she began her presenting career in
1998, at the age of 16, with early morning GMTV children's
show The Disney Club and later Diggit with Paul 'Des'
Ballard. She soon found herself fronting several children's
programmes for CITV, including Draw Your Own Toons and
Mouse, a show aimed at encouraging children to use
computers. In 2002 she presented Finger Tips, an arts and
crafts programme for children, with co-presenter Stephen
Mulhern.
Cotton soon branched out from ITV, and her association with
CBBC began when she presented children's science programme,
Eureka TV, later winning a role as co-presenter on CBBC's
Sunday Morning show, Smile. Before long, she was given the
task of re-vitalising the ailing The Saturday Show for the
BBC. Her former Finger Tips co-presenter, Stephen Mulhern
was soon to present rival CITV Saturday morning show
Ministry of Mayhem alongside her best friend Holly
Willoughby.
Her association with children's programmes continues as she
narrates the popular CBBC Serious… documentary strand, as
well as presenting Only In America.
Cotton is a keen artist having studied art at A level. This
was a skill she made good use of whilst presenting the
series Draw Your Own Toons. She hopes to hold an exhibition
of her work in late 2007.
She also enjoys body art and claimed on Friday Night with
Jonathan Ross that she has eleven tattoos over her body, the
most notable of which is a fern leaf, covering her right hip
up to her rib cage.
Cotton has two cats called Tallulah and Keloy, named after
one of the magic words from Bedknobs and Broomsticks. She
was photographed with Keloy by the late Lord Lichfield for
the 2006 PDSA Calendar.
For a period in 2004-2005, she dated Lostprophets' front man
Ian Watkins. It is rumoured that Watkins wrote two songs on
the group's third album, Liberation Transmission, about the
couple's separation, although he refuses to either confirm
or deny this. Another of her ex-boyfriends, Peter Brame who
was a Fame Academy singer, sold explicit details of their
lovelife to a tabloid Sunday newspaper, describing how his
cocaine addiction destroyed their relationship. She
maintains that "he had to do it for his own reasons and I
don't resent him for that." She also had a relationship with
Kooks frontman Luke Prittchard. She is currently dating
American Jesse Jenkins.
She is a vegetarian and an animal lover. |
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