Top of the Pops: 18/12/1998
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Friday, December 19 on BBC Four (9)
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18/12/1998
Season 1998, Episode 38
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 18 December 1998. Featuring The Beautiful South, Spice Girls, Honeyz, Ace of Base, Lutricia McNeal, Billie Piper, REM and B*Witched
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16x9
Music/Ballet/Dance
Pop
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Did You Know..
Jayne Middlemiss
(Presenter)
Born:
February 03, 1971
in
Northumberland
Best Known For:
Presenting various youth-themed shows.
Early-life:
Middlemiss hails from a working-class background in Bedlington, Northumberland, where her father was an electrician in the coal pit and her mother worked in a factory. She often won childhood beauty contests and dreamed of being a singer, but her first job was selling televisions in an electrical store in Morpeth. Moved to London and into the world of glamour modelling while also working as an extra on TV.
Career:
Her big break came with presenting jobs on Channel 4's The White Room and BBC's O-Zone, followed by Top Of The Pops. WShe was axed from the latter, along with Gail Porter, when producers revamped the presenting line-up. Hosted She's Gotta Have It and co-presented LA Pool Party with Lisa Snowdon. Appeared on Test the Nation, and scored an IQ rating of 100. The effervescent Geordie has been globetrotting with Holiday on a Shoestring and Holiday - You Call the Shots. In 2005 she appeared on ITV's Celebrity Love Island and became emotionally involved with footballer Lee Sharpe. She won Celebrity MasterChef in 2009.
Quote:
"I'd like to be the female Chris Evans - but not ginger."
Trivia:
In 2005, she released a fitness DVD, Jayne Middlemiss - Love Yoga.
Chris Cowey
(Executive producer)
