Fearne Cotton

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Fearne Wood (born 3 September 1981), known professionally by her maiden name Fearne Cotton, is an English television and radio presenter, actress, author, podcaster and DJ. She has presented television programmes such as Top of The Pops and Red Nose Day telethons. In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of the Radio 1 Chart Show, which she co-hosted with her good friend from Smile Reggie Yates for two years. She

Fearne Cotton at the Teletubbies world premiere

went on to present her own Radio 1 Show, airing every weekday morning from 2009 to 2015. In 2007, Cotton presented The Xtra Factor, an ITV2 spin-off from the main show The X Factor. She hosted the show for one year before being replaced by her good friend,

Holly Willoughby for the following series. From 2008 to 2018, Cotton appeared as a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel game show Celebrity Juice alongside host Keith Lemon (alter ego of comedian Leigh Francis) and fellow team captain Holly Willoughby. She quit the series in December 2018 to pursue other projects. In 2018, Cotton began presenting Happy Place, a podcast available to online streaming platforms. Cotton currently voices one of the Voice Trumpets in the 2015 reboot of Teletubbies that airs on CBeebies since 2015.

Television, Film and Radio Roles, Books

As a Presenter/Personality

• The Disney Club (1995-1998) - Presenter (GMTV)

• Diggit/Diggin' It (1998-2000) - Presenter (GMTV)

• Draw Your Own Toons (1998-2001) - Presenter (CITV)

• Mouse (2000-2001) - Presenter (CITV)

• Pump It Up (2000) - Co-presenter (CITV)

• Petswap (2001) - Presenter (CITV)

• Eureka TV (2001-2003) - Presenter (CBBC)

• Finger Tips (2001-2003) - Co-presenter (CITV)

• Smile (2002-2004) - Presenter (CBBC)

• The Saturday Show (2002-2003) - Presenter (CBBC)

• Top of the Pops (2003-2005) - Presenter (BBC One, BBC Two and CBBC (Reloaded))
• Serious.. (series)(2003-2007) - Narrator (CBBC)

• Only in America (2005) - Presenter (CBBC)

• Children in Need (2005-2015) - Presenter (BBC One and BBC Two)

• Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model (2005-2012) - Narrator (Sky Living)

• Love Island (2006) - Presenter (ITV)

• Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow (2006) - Guest (CBBC)

• The Xtra Factor (2007) - Presenter (ITV2)

• Comic Relief (2007-2015) - Co-presenter (BBC One and BBC Two)

• Holly & Fearne Go Dating (2007) - Host - with Holly Willoughby (ITV, STV and UTV)

• Celebrity Juice (2008-2018) - Team Captain (ITV2)

• Sport Relief (2010-2014) Co-presenter (BBC One and BBC Two)

• The One Show (2013, 2014, 2016) – Guest presenter (BBC One)

• Lorraine (2017) – Guest presenter (ITV)

As a Actress

• Byker Grove (2005) - Herself (CBBC)

• Harry, Henry and the Prostitute (short film) (2008) - Neighbour

• Lemon La Vida Loca (2012) - Herself (ITV2)

• Keith Lemon: The Film (movie) (2012) - Herself

• Greg James Spoof Tracks (2014) - Herself

• The Keith Lemon Sketch Show (2015) - Herself (ITV2)

• Teletubbies (reboot) (2015-present) - Female Voice of the Voice Trumpets (CBeebies)
• Teletubbies: Songtime At The Cinema! (movie) (2019) - Female Voice of the Voice Trumpets

Radio

• The Radio 1 Chart Show (2007) - Presenter

• BBC Radio 1 (2005-2015) - DJ

• BBC Radio 2 (2016-present) - DJ

Podcasts

• Happy Place (2018-present) - Host

Books

• The Best Friends Guide To Life (2010) - Author, with Holly Willoughby

• Yoga Babies (2017) - Author

• Hungry Babies (2018) - Author

Trivia

• She is the daughter in law of The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood (father of Cotton's husband Jesse Wood).
• Cotton is a friend of fellow TV presenter Holly Willoughby, with whom she has co-presented several shows, Cotton and Sarah Cawood acted as two of the bridesmaids at Willoughby's wedding to Dan Baldwin on 4 August 2007.
• In Cotton's Teletubbies interview, When she adopted her cat Tallulah from an animal sanctuary, Tallulah's name was Tinky Winky, but since Cotton was working in kids' TV, She thought to herself 'This cannot stick around,' So Cotton changed Tallulah's name from Tinky Winky to Tallulah, and Cotton said in the interview, 'It might be time to call her Tinky Winky again and reverse the name process, if she doesn't mind'.
• Cotton attended the Teletubbies World Premiere (2015) at BFI Southbank along with fellow Teletubbies cast members Jess Smith, Berry, Jeremiah Krage (as Tinky Winky), Nick Chee Ping Kellington (as Dipsy), Rebecca Hyland (as Laa-Laa), Rachelle Beinart (as Po), and Victoria Jane (as Noo-Noo) along with other celebrities such as Jennifer Saunders, Grace Woodward and others.
• In 2009, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, alongside Ben Shephard, Gary Barlow, Alesha Dixon, Ronan Keating, Denise Van Outen and Chris Moyles, and Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh. Cotton and others collapsed from altitude sickness during the five-day climb. She was in the first group (with Van Outen, Shephard and Cole) to reach the summit and helped raise £3.3m.
• Cotton is the great-grandniece of the well-known entertainer and band leader Billy Cotton, Cotton is also the second cousin of former BBC executive Sir Bill Cotton CBE.

Fearne Cotton hugging Holly Willoughby

Fearne Cotton with Holly Willoughby