Top of the Pops: Christmas 1999
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Friday, June 19 on BBC Four (9)
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About this Broadcast
Christmas 1999
Season 1, Episode 1
Gail Porter, Jamie Theakston and Jayne Middlemiss present this Christmas day edition of the pop chart programme, first broadcast on December 25, 1999. Featuring music from performers such as DJ Jurgen Presents Alice Deejay, Cliff Richard, Martine McCutcheon, Robbie Williams and Steps and Westlife
subtitles
16x9
Music/Ballet/Dance
Pop
Cast & Crew
Gail Porter
(Presenter)
Jamie Theakston
(Presenter)
Jayne Middlemiss
(Presenter)
Chris Cowey
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
Gail Porter
(Presenter)
Born:
March 23, 1971
in
Edinburgh
Best Known For:
Being projected nude onto the Houses of Parliament.
Early-life:
Born in 1971 in Edinburgh, Gail grew up outside the city and her parents ran a construction company. After leaving school, she spent six years working behind the scenes in TV as a runner and then as a production manager. She became a cult celebrity presenting kids' show Fully Booked in the late 1990s. Her profile was boosted by rising DJ at the time, Chris Moyles.
Career:
Porter was snapped up for a string of TV series, including The Movie Chart Show, Top of the Pops, Live & Kicking, Wish You Were Here? and Dead Famous. Other TV appearances included Celebrity Blind Man's Bluff and The Games. However, her personal life soon commanded more attention. Following her marriage to guitarist Dan Hipgrave in 2001, they had a daughter, Honey, and Gail suffered from post-natal depression. The couple split and in 2005 she lost much of her hair to alopecia. In 2006, her condition was documented in the One Life documentary, Gail Porter Laid Bare. Her autobiography, Laid Bare: My Story Of Love, Fame And Survival, was published a year later. She returned to the public eye in August 2015 when she entered the Celebrity Big Brother house.
Quote:
On that nude Parliament projection: 'I loved the people going mental. I was like, how stupid is everyone? Because it's not that bad.'
Trivia:
In 2014, she was the guest editor of Fashion Plus magazine.
Jamie Theakston
(Presenter)
Born:
December 21, 1970
in
Sussex
Best Known For:
Presenting TV shows and his headline-making love life.
Early-life:
Jamie Andrew Theakston was born on December 21, 1970, in Sussex. He grew up in a happy middle-class household. His father was in computers, and worked as a director for the BBC. His mum runs a tearoom. A natural exhibitionist, he has described himself as a noisy kid who demanded to be the centre of attention. Theakston cut his acting teeth at the National Youth Theatre, before then working in Christie's auction house between leaving school and doing a business degree at North London Polytechnic.
Career:
Famously entered a BBC's Clothes Show contest to find a new model. He did well, and was in good company: Cat Deeley was also in the competition. Later, to help out a friend, he started doing traffic reports on BBC local radio station GLR. Subsequently, he moved to Radio 5 Live where he was noticed by a producer of TV show The O-Zone. Things took off after he teamed up with Zoë Ball, first on Live & Kicking and then on The Priory. Theakston decided to return to acting, and appeared in West End hits Art, and Home and Beauty. Other TV jobs include an episode of Murder in Mind, the last TV drama to feature Adam Faith, sitcom Mad About Alice, A Question of Pop, and The Games. He reunited with Zoë Ball in 2009 to front Channel 5 game show Britain's Best Brain. He initially presented some music shows on Radio 1 before fronting the Heart FM breakfast show, where he has been at the microphone since 2005.
Quote:
On working with Zoë Ball: 'I've worked with lots of other female co-hosts and I guess you always measure them against the first one you worked with.'
Trivia:
He enjoys fencing and cricket. He supports Brighton and Hove Albion.
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)
