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A blog about my show with the man formerly known as Jason Derulo*, and currently known as Jason Derulo**. *sung one way **sung a different way I recently hung out with Mr JD for a show called The…er…Hangout, on 4Music, Kiss and The Box. He was unbelievably sweet, up for playing all manner of arguably ridiculous games, and seemingly didn’t mind …

Thanks to the brilliant production team and crew from Cyclevox, last weekend I made my first foray into the world of cycling (who knew?!), presenting coverage of The 2015 Jupiter London Nocturne for Channel 4, Eurosport and Sky Sports, alongside Jonathan Edwards and Rob Hayles. Well, technically, Jonathan and Rob talked cycling, I talked all the other stuff. The Nocturne is …

A huge congratulations to the team behind That’s Not Me, a short film I presented recently exploring the effects of airbrushing, which has been awarded the BBC Award for Factual Entertainment at Visions Festival 2015. We investigated the use of retouching in fashion, advertising and media, meeting fashion photographer Jose Pope (jphotography.org.uk) and Kara Eschbach, co-founder of Verily Magazine, the only …

This is a blog about the VVV wrap party! Yes, after 8 months, 102 shows, 714+ links and an infinite number of people telling me they JUST WANT TO WATCH YOUTUBE WITHOUT YOUR BLOOMIN FACE INTERRUPTING EVERY VIDEO, the first season of our little show on Vevo has come to an end.   It’s not often that you get paid to …

A blog about some recent work stuff that had nothing to do with your license fee. It is May at the end of this week, so obviously* it’s time for a couple of work updates for anyone remotely interested. I’ll be brief. O’BRIEN, ITV The beginning of the month saw Loose Women taken off the air for two weeks (yes, it …

A blog about my mouth full of metal, some frankly delightful smoothie recipes and one motherfucking beast of a soup suggestion. I realise this looks a lot like a health and fitness blog. It’s not a health and fitness blog. There are plenty of health, fitness and beauty blogs and bloggers out there, and I’m more than happy to let them …

A blog about my brand new 4Music show After AWOLling around on the blog front, I’m posting TWO IN A DAY, because I’m cray like that, and also because the other one was getting really long and I really couldn’t live with myself having put anyone through the ordeal of reading loads of stuff about all different things. This blog is …

A blog about talking about things you don’t really know very much about. Well, well, well (in the words of Roots Manuva*)! Here we are: another month, another blog that I meant to write weeks ago. And oh my gosh (in the words of Basement Jaxx**), what a few weeks they have been. Let this blog serve to (in the words …