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'''Elizabeth Bonnin''' (born 16 September 1976) is a French |
'''Elizabeth Bonnin''' (born 16 September 1976) is a French<ref name="science"/> science, wildlife and natural history presenter, who has worked on television in both Ireland and the United Kingdom.<ref name="IrishmanAbroad">{{cite podcast |author-link=Jarlath Regan |author=Jarlath Regan |number=61 |work=[[An Irishman Abroad]] |title=Liz Bonin |publisher=[[SoundCloud]] |date=15 November 2014 |url=https://soundcloud.com/an-irishman-abroad/liz-bonnin-episode-61 |accessdate=2 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208222536/https://soundcloud.com/an-irishman-abroad/liz-bonnin-episode-61 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="biog">{{cite web|url=http://www.lizbonnin.com/about-liz|title=About Liz|website=Liz Bonnin|access-date=2016-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211132318/http://www.lizbonnin.com/about-liz|archive-date=11 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="gordonpoole.com">{{Cite news|url=http://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/liz-bonnin/|title=Liz Bonnin - The Gordon Poole Agency Ltd|newspaper=The Gordon Poole Agency Ltd|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref> She presented morning show ''[[RI:SE]]'' and music show ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' in the early 2000s. |
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She is best known for presenting wildlife and science programmes including ''Galapagos'', ''How the Earth Works'', ''Animals in Love'', ''[[Stargazing Live]]'', ''Blue Planet Live'', ''Cats v Dogs: Which is Best?'' and ''Should We Close Our Zoos?''.<ref name="gordonpoole.com"/> She co-presented the [[BBC]] factual series ''[[Bang Goes the Theory]]'' from 2009 until 2014 and since 2013, has co-presented ''[[Countrywise]]'' for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. In 2019, she presented "Meat: A Threat to our Planet?" |
She is best known for presenting wildlife and science programmes including ''Galapagos'', ''How the Earth Works'', ''Animals in Love'', ''[[Stargazing Live]]'', ''Blue Planet Live'', ''Cats v Dogs: Which is Best?'' and ''Should We Close Our Zoos?''.<ref name="gordonpoole.com"/> She co-presented the [[BBC]] factual series ''[[Bang Goes the Theory]]'' from 2009 until 2014 and since 2013, has co-presented ''[[Countrywise]]'' for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. In 2019, she presented "Meat: A Threat to our Planet?" |
Revision as of 10:10, 14 August 2021
Liz Bonnin | |
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Born | Elizabeth Bonnin 16 September 1976[1] |
Citizenship |
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Education | Trinity College, Dublin (BA) Royal Veterinary College (MSc) |
Occupation | Television presenter |
Years active | 2002–present |
Musical career | |
Origin | Paris, France |
Genres | Pop |
Instrument | Vocals |
Labels | Polydor |
Website | www |
Elizabeth Bonnin (born 16 September 1976) is a French[1] science, wildlife and natural history presenter, who has worked on television in both Ireland and the United Kingdom.[2][3][4] She presented morning show RI:SE and music show Top of the Pops in the early 2000s.
She is best known for presenting wildlife and science programmes including Galapagos, How the Earth Works, Animals in Love, Stargazing Live, Blue Planet Live, Cats v Dogs: Which is Best? and Should We Close Our Zoos?.[4] She co-presented the BBC factual series Bang Goes the Theory from 2009 until 2014 and since 2013, has co-presented Countrywise for ITV. In 2019, she presented "Meat: A Threat to our Planet?"
Early life and education
Bonnin was born in Paris to a Trinidadian mother, of Indian and Portuguese descent, and a French-Martiniquan father, who was a dentist.[3][5] Her family moved to Ireland when she was nine years old.[2][3]
Bonnin has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin,[2][6] She also holds a master's degree in wild animal biology and conservation from the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Veterinary College (2008), for which she tracked tigers in Nepal.[7][8] She continues to work on big cat conservation programmes at the Zoological Society.[citation needed]
Career
Bonnin began her career singing backing vocals with The Pale before joining an Irish girl pop group named Chill, who signed to Polydor but broke up before recording.[9][10] The band had performed on Dustin the Turkey's third album Faith of Our Feathers, duetting on "We Are Family".[11] She was offered a job hosting the IRMA Awards which led to presenting roles on RTÉ Television in Ireland, on The Den, Telly Bingo, Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 and for two years, Off the Rails with Fiona McShane.[2] At the time she was in a relationship with the publisher John Ryan.[12][13] In 2002, she moved to London to present on a number of TV channels.[14]
In 2002, she became one of the presenters of the Channel 4 morning show RI:SE, specialising in reporting on entertainment-related stories.[15] In the same year she became a regular presenter on Top of the Pops in the UK.[16]
In 2004, Bonnin was locked in a giant kennel along with MPs Paul Burstow, Evan Harris and Ivan Henderson and actress Liza Goddard, BBC Newsround presenter Lizzie Greenwood and DJ Becky Jago in a stunt to launch the annual RSPCA Week to raise awareness and funds.[17]
Since 2005, Bonnin has been involved in science broadcasting. She presented the show Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets in 2005[18] and co-presented the BBC science series Bang Goes the Theory on BBC One from 2009 until 2014.[19] In 2008, Bonnin presented a documentary series Science Friction on RTÉ One which looked at taboos in discussions of scientific topics (such as paedophilia and nuclear power) in Ireland.[2][20] She also contributed to BBC Two's series on the work of the London Natural History Museum, Museum of Life.[21]
In October 2010, she joined the cast of Autumnwatch and in January 2011, she presented segments of BBC Two's Stargazing Live from various areas of Hawaii including atop Mauna Kea.[22] In May 2011, she co-presented BBC One's Egypt's Lost Cities.[23] She is also one of the top nature presenters in Britain.[24]
Personal life
Bonnin grew up with her older sister Benni, while she said that "I was extremely close to my granny, who passed away in 2003."[citation needed] She has moved back to London.[citation needed]
Bonnin is a role model for EDF Energy's Pretty Curious programme, which is aimed at encouraging teenage girls to study science-based subjects at school.[25] She has said in a 2016 interview, "FHM offered me a spread but I said no."[1]
On January 5, 2021, Bonnin announced that her mother Bonnie Murray had died over the Christmas 2020 period after contracting COVID-19.[26][27]
Filmography
- Television
Year | Title | Roles | Channel |
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1999–2000 | Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 | Co-presenter | RTÉ One |
2000–? | Off the Rails | Co-presenter | |
2002–? | RI:SE | Co-presenter | Channel 4 |
2002–2003 | Top of the Pops | Co-presenter | BBC One |
2003 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Guest | BBC Two[28] |
2004–2005 | Wild Trials | Presenter | |
2005–? | Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets | Co-presenter | |
2008 | Science Friction | Presenter | RTÉ One |
2009–2014 | Bang Goes the Theory | Co-presenter | BBC One |
2009–2010 | Country Tracks | Co-presenter | BBC Two |
2010 | Museum of Life | Co-presenter | |
2010–2011 | Autumnwatch | Guest presenter | |
2011— | Stargazing Live | Co-presenter | BBC One/BBC Two |
2011 | Egypt's Lost Cities | Presenter | BBC One |
Springwatch | Guest presenter | BBC Two | |
2012 | Super Smart Animals | Presenter | BBC One |
Horizon: The Transit of Venus | Presenter | BBC Two | |
2013 | Tomorrow's World: A Horizon Special | Presenter | |
Operation Snow Tiger | Presenter | ||
2013— | Countrywise | Co-presenter | ITV |
2013 | Animal Odd Couples | Presenter | BBC One |
How the Earth Works | Co-presenter | Discovery Channel | |
2014 | Cat Watch 2014: The New Horizon Experiment | Presenter | BBC Two |
Animals Through The Night: Sleepover At The Zoo | Co-presenter | BBC Four | |
2015 | Big Blue Live | Co-presenter | BBC One |
Animals in Love | Presenter | ||
India: Nature's Wonderland | Co-presenter | BBC Two | |
2016 | Cats v Dogs: Which is Best? | Co-presenter | |
Horizon – Should We Close Our Zoos? | |||
Nature's Epic Journeys | Presenter | BBC One | |
2017 | Galapagos | Presenter | |
Wild Alaska Live | Co-presenter | ||
2018 | Drowning In Plastic | Presenter | |
2019 | Blue Planet Live | Co-presenter | |
Would I Lie to You? | Guest | ||
Snow Animals | Presenter | ||
Meat: A Threat to our Planet? | Presenter | ||
2020 | Penguins: Meet the Family | Narrator | BBC One[29] |
2020-2021 | For The Love Of Britain | Co-presenter | ITV[30] |
2021 | Our Wild Adventures | Guest contributor | BBC Two[31] |
2022 | The Island – 1.8 Billion Years in the Making | Presenter | RTÉ [32] |
References
- ^ a b c d John Meagher (15 May 2016). "Former RTE star Liz Bonnin on choosing science over celebrity: 'FHM offered me a spread but I said no'". Independent.ie. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
And yet, [Bonnin] has never had an Irish passport...Bonnin says there isn't a drop of Irish in her - her parents emigrated to Dublin from France when she was nine. "When people ask what my nationality is, I say I'm French. I have a French passport, but I spent all my formative years in Ireland so I'm more Irish than French.
- ^ a b c d e Jarlath Regan (15 November 2014). "Liz Bonin". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast). No. 61. SoundCloud. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ^ a b c "About Liz". Liz Bonnin. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Liz Bonnin - The Gordon Poole Agency Ltd". The Gordon Poole Agency Ltd. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ "Why Liz Bonnin dream's of living in provence". Coventry Telegraph. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ "Meet Liz Bonnin". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ Jeremy Torrance. "Nature UK: Autumnwatch: Ask Liz Bonnin a question". BBC. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
- ^ O'Connor, Stuart (16 April 2010). "Liz Bonnin: 'I'm still a nerd, just a different type of a nerd'". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ^ http://www.irishmusicdb.com/p/pale/pale_bandprofiles.htm [bare URL]
- ^ "Can Liz Bonnin RI:SE to the Occasion?". ShowBiz Ireland. 14 June 2002.
- ^ "Dustin-Faith of our Feathers track list". Last.fm. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ^ "Olaf bares all". The Irish Times. 25 November 2000. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ Jackson, Joe (14 September 2000). "John Ryan Interview". Hot Press Magazine. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "Liz Bonnin and Gordon D'Arcy". RTÉ. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ "Liz Bonnin". TV.com. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ "Top of the Pops 2 – Trivia". BBC. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ "MPs in the doghouse for charity". BBC. 26 April 2004.
- ^ Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets at IMDb
- ^ "Talking Shop:Liz Bonnin". BBC. 3 June 2009.
- ^ "SCIENCE FRICTION ***New Series***". RTÉ Press Centre. 4 February 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ^ "Museum of Life" (Press release). BBC. 11 November 2009.
- ^ "Stargazing Live: TV Gold". Spew.co.uk. 6 January 2011.
- ^ "Egypt's Lost Cities". 31 May 2011.
- ^ Donal Lynch (20 October 2019). "'I don't need something that's called 'home' - the planet is my home' - Liz Bonnin on Brexit, national identity, and climate". independent.ie. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ Huffington Post UK
- ^ "Liz Bonnin heartbroken after losing her mother to Covid at Christmas". rte.ie. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ "Liz Bonnin reveals her mother died from Covid at Christmas". msn.com. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
- ^ ""Never Mind the Buzzcocks" Episode #12.10 (TV Episode 2003)". IMdb.
- ^ "Penguins: Meet the Family". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "For The Love Of Britain". itv.com. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ^ "Our Wild Adventures". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "The Island – 1.8 Billion Years in the Making". New Decade. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
External links
- Articles with bare URLs for citations from May 2021
- 1976 births
- 20th-century French people
- 21st-century French people
- Living people
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Alumni of the Royal Veterinary College
- British television presenters
- The Den (TV programme) presenters
- French emigrants to Ireland
- French female singers
- French people of Trinidad and Tobago descent
- French people of Portuguese descent
- French people of Indian descent
- Indian people of French descent
- Indian people of Portuguese descent
- RTÉ television presenters
- Science communicators
- Singers from Dublin (city)
- People from Paris
- 21st-century French singers
- 21st-century women singers
- French women television presenters
- British women television presenters
- French people of Martiniquais descent
- 20th-century French women
- 21st-century French women