From the 90s onwards, Northumberland-born Jayne Middlemiss has been a regular presenter on screen and on the airwaves. Beginning her career in London as a model, she swiftly moved to TV and radio, where she's had a successful career lasting almost three decades.
Her early credits included presenting The O-Zone with Jamie Theakston, fashion show She's Gotta Have It, Top of The Pops, the Smash Hits Awards, and shows on BBC Radio 1. She also presented festival coverage and other music-related shows.
Some of her early TV appearances went more smoothly than others. She told WalesOnline : "When I was doing live TV for the first time I was at Glastonbury with Jamie Theakston. I finished my link and slightly mixed my words up. The camera panned away and I said: 'I really f***** that up,' not realising we were still on air.
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"Another time, again at Glastonbury, Jamie and I were sitting having a fag and I said: 'Wouldn't it be funny if the feed went down and they cut back to us, like, now?'
"That exact moment it happened. We put our cigarettes out so quickly I was paranoid the bales of hay were going to go up in smoke."
"Then I got a fit of the giggles. It was awful, but strangely fun at the same time."
She went on to appear on shows like Robot Wars, Live from Studio Five, Holiday On A Shoestring, and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
Jayne Middlemiss has made several forays into reality TV, notably taking part and winning Celebrity Love Island in 2005. She told The Guardian that the programme "taught me to live every day as if it were your last, because you could be thrown off the next day".
In 2009, she competed on the BBC competitive cooking show Celebrity MasterChef and again proved victorious, winning the show's fourth season.
What has Jayne Middlemiss been doing recently?
Earlier in the year, Jayne Middlemiss returned to Pointless Celebrities – ten years after she first appeared on the show in 2012.
At the moment, Jayne is also presenting shows for Virgin Radio, currently between 4 pm and 7 pm during the week, with Ricky Wilson of The Kaiser Chiefs due to take over next week's slot. She's also currently appearing in Richard Osman's House of Games Series 6: Week 2, alongside Rob Deering, Katya Jones, and Phil Tufnell.
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