Caroline Feraday
Caroline Feraday | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 May 1977 Kent, England |
| Career | |
| Station(s) | BBC Radio LBC 97.3 Capital FM |
| Network | BBC |
| Time slot | Overnight + Early Breakfast 2am-6am Friday morning |
| Style | Talk show News Talk Music show Phone-in |
| Country | UK |
| Website | http://www.carolineferaday.com |
Caroline Feraday (born 25 May 1977) is an English television and radio broadcaster currently living and working in Los Angeles.[1]
Radio Broadcasting
Feraday joined London radio station in 1995 Capital FM at 18, after studying journalism and earlier stints at BBC Radio Kent and Invicta FM. She spent six years as the Capital's Flying Eye travel reporter on Foxy's Drivetime and Tarrant at Breakfast, and presented the London Chart show, Early Breakfast and the Saturday evening Dance Show as well as co-presenting 95.8 Capital FM's Breakfast show with Neil Fox. In 2001 she moved to Radio Five Live to present the travel reports on the Breakfast and Nicky Campbell shows as well as The Juice and The Weekend News on Saturdays at 8pm, staying for two years. She then joined London radio station LBC 97.3 at its relaunch under new owners Chrysalis, presenting the flagship Drivetime show from 4-7pm. However, after a series of changes, she moved to the Friday evening programme between 8-10pm and then Friday, Saturdays and Sundays from 10pm-1am until December 2006.
BBC London 94.9 (July 2011-2012)
Feraday was presenting "Overnight on BBC London 94.9 with Caroline Feraday", live, from 2am till 6am and began her show on BBC London 94.9 on Friday 8 July 2011 until moving to Los Angeles in 2013.[2][3][4]
TV broadcasting
Feraday made her first appearance on television as a presenter on VH1 in 1998. Since then she has presented Sky Rocket on Saturday nights on Sky One, The FifPro Awards on Sky One, Celebrity World Cup Live for Sky One, as well as hosting for Sky Travel, and in Hollywood as well as reports on location and on the studio sofa for GMTV, Living TV, ITV's The Mint for ITV1 and ITV Play. ITV Play and the ITV News Channel Breakfast show. She has worked as a showbiz reporter on This Morning on ITV, and was the voice of Channel 4's morning show B4 (daily at 7.00am) and the voice of Comedy Central and Comedy Central Extra from 2009-2014.
She also co-presented comedy show Consequently for Carlton, and hosted Capital FM's Party in the Park event in front of 100,000 people in 1998, 1999, 2000, and was the support act for the Spice Girls at Wembley Stadium. She covered the 2012 Olympics decision live from Trafalgar Square for London TV. From 2007 until 2009, she presented and reported for BBC South East on Breakfast, anchoring the morning news bulletins and 1.30pm lunchtime news. She presented shows on Thomas Cook TV. She continued to occasionally present and report for BBC News at South East and BBC London News, as well as anchoring the live BBC Children In Need television coverage from location.
She regularly appeared on Five's The Wright Stuff as a panellist. She has also appeared as a Celebrity contestant on The Weakest Link. Feraday presented The Mint on ITV Play and ITV.
She appeared on Celebrity Total Wipeout on BBC 1 in 2011.
She anchored Sky News in 2009 and 2010 and appeared as a newspaper reviewer and entertainment news correspondent from Los Angeles regularly on Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes.
She appeared in 2011 on Channel 5's short-lived Vanessa Show as a regular panellist, as well as on MTV's Jersey Royals, and once, in 2010, on Heston's Celebrity Fairytale Feast (Channel 4).
Caroline co-presented Sleepout Live in 2012 with Richard Madeley and Sara Cox.
She played in televised TV poker tournaments for Sky and Challenge TV.
The character Amber Rose in Sony's game 'TV Superstars' was based on Caroline and voiced by her.
Caroline appears as a stand-up comic at LA's Famous Comedy Store and Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, regularly from 2014.
Personal life
Caroline grew up in Kent, and attended Rochester Grammar School for Girls.
She lived in Clapham, London.
Feraday was romantically involved with the comedian Frank Skinner from 2000-2002. She also dated Anton du Beke from 2006-2007.
In June 2013, she married solicitor Mark Lewis.[5] They relocated together to West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, but separated the following year. [6]Lewis returned to the UK.
She enjoys films, music and running, and participated in her first marathon – in London – in 2005.
She can play flute and Ukulele.
References
- ^ http://www.carolineferaday.com/Official/Biography.html
- ^ - First BBC London 94.9 show
- ^ - Host of her own show on BBC London 94.9
- ^ "Axed radio presenter Caroline Feraday hits out at the BBC for dropping her by TEXT". Mail Online. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
- ^ "Caroline Feraday Wedding in OK magazine! | HT Headwear". www.htheadwear.com. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
- ^ "TV presenter Caroline Feraday splits from lawyer husband after a year of marriage". World News. Retrieved 2015-10-25.