Danielle Nicholls
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Danielle Nicholls is a British
television presenter, best known for her presenting of CITV
from 1998 to 2001.
, of Scottish Premier League
side Falkirk F.C.
. Dean is now at Chesterfield F.C.
. Danielle and Dean live in Worsley
and have three children.
ballet exams with honours. She was then studying at Moorside High School
. After finishing a two year course in Performing Arts at The Oldham College
, at the age of 18, Nicholls became a member of Pure Gossip, and stayed with the group for a year.
(CiTV back then), which ran live, six days a week, and had an audience of four million viewers. Amongst the illustrious stars she interviewed on the show were: Britney Spears
, Justin Timberlake
and Victoria Beckham
. Such was ITV
's faith in Danielle, that they sent her to Australia to film a behind-the-scenes special on Home and Away
. On 1 May 2000, Danielle took on one of her most challenging jobs and presented the live ITV Day Of Promise show with Eamonn Holmes
and Carol Vorderman
. In 2000 she also presented the live CITV game show Mad for It
.
After more than three years as a presenter ever on CITV, Nicholls left in December 2001. She did have a brief return to children's TV as a presenter in the Saturday morning show Diggit. She continued as a presenter of three series of the hit Channel 5 celebrity karaoke show, Night Fever
, until 2002. In 2003, Nicholls toured the country with Mark Speight
in the Speight of the Art roadshow.
She was on the second series of Sooty Heights
.
for Sky Movies
, she left in October 2003.
; The Unprofessionals where, along with a co-presenter, she was given different tasks to perform including pole dancing
, a children's party entertainer, a drain unblocker and a taxidermist
.
channel 271.
, Bedrock, Boys & Girls, Dick and Dom in da Bungalow
, Sport on 5, and Granada Soccer Night. She was also the voice behind the late night documentary series about North West nightlife called Party Fever which was shown on Granada
.
, every Friday at 13:00.
at the Opera House in Manchester
. The following years, she appeared as Snow White in the other successful pantomimes at Northampton
, Sunderland, Southport
and Weston-super-Mare
, and in December 2005/January 2006, playing another leading role as Fairy Crystal in the Snow White pantomime at the Grand Opera House in York
.
As well as the annual pantomime performances, in 2004 she also starred on stage in the Hammond Production Group's The Young Ones Summer Holiday in Worthing
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
television presenter, best known for her presenting of CITV
CITV
CITV is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network .The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00...
from 1998 to 2001.
Personal life
In June 2006, she married Dean HoldenDean Holden
Dean Thomas John Holden is an English footballer who currently plays for Rochdale, on loan from Chesterfield in League One.-Career:...
, of Scottish Premier League
Scottish Premier League
The Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
side Falkirk F.C.
Falkirk F.C.
Falkirk Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Falkirk. It is one of two professional football teams from the town, the other being East Stirlingshire...
. Dean is now at Chesterfield F.C.
Chesterfield F.C.
Chesterfield Football Club is an English football club based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The club currently plays in Football League One, the third tier of English football. Despite being the fourth oldest Football League club in England, they have spent most of their existence in the lower...
. Danielle and Dean live in Worsley
Worsley
Worsley is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies along the course of Worsley Brook, west of Manchester. The M60 motorway bisects the area....
and have three children.
Early life
Nicholls started dancing at the age of 9. At 15 she became the All England Modern Dance Champion, and had also passed two Royal Academy of DanceRoyal Academy of Dance
The Royal Academy of Dance is an international dance education and training organization, and examination board that specialises in the teaching and technique of Ballet. The RAD was established in London, England in 1920 as the Association of Operatic Dancing of Great Britain, and received its...
ballet exams with honours. She was then studying at Moorside High School
Moorside High School
Moorside High School established in 1934 is a specialist secondary school in Mathematics and Computing located in Swinton, near Manchester, England. It is located on the East Lancashire Road , a dual carriageway. It is about a 15 minute walk from Swinton town centre and Swinton Shopping Centre or a...
. After finishing a two year course in Performing Arts at The Oldham College
The Oldham College
The Oldham College, is a government funded further education college =in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. In 2008 the college had over 8,000 students, making it the largest centre of further education in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. It is a Centre of Vocational Excellence for...
, at the age of 18, Nicholls became a member of Pure Gossip, and stayed with the group for a year.
CITV
In May 1998, out of 900 applicants, she was chosen to present CITVCITV
CITV is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network .The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00...
(CiTV back then), which ran live, six days a week, and had an audience of four million viewers. Amongst the illustrious stars she interviewed on the show were: Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
, Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...
and Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops...
. Such was ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's faith in Danielle, that they sent her to Australia to film a behind-the-scenes special on Home and Away
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
. On 1 May 2000, Danielle took on one of her most challenging jobs and presented the live ITV Day Of Promise show with Eamonn Holmes
Eamonn Holmes
Eamonn Holmes is an Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work on UK and Irish television, notably presenting GMTV and This Morning. He is married to TV presenter Ruth Langsford.-Education:...
and Carol Vorderman
Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman MBE is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 to 2008. In September 2011 she became a co-anchor of the ITV1 panel show Loose Women....
. In 2000 she also presented the live CITV game show Mad for It
Mad for It
Mad For It was a British game show for children which was produed by Carlton Television broadcast on CITV from 1998–2000. Series 1 was hosted by former Nickelodeon presenters Yiolanda Koppel and Mike McClean. In 2000, Yiolanda was replaced by Nigel Mitchell and Danielle Nicholls...
.
After more than three years as a presenter ever on CITV, Nicholls left in December 2001. She did have a brief return to children's TV as a presenter in the Saturday morning show Diggit. She continued as a presenter of three series of the hit Channel 5 celebrity karaoke show, Night Fever
Night Fever (TV series)
Night Fever was a karaoke style panel game show airing in the United Kingdom on Channel 5. It was hosted by Suggs and in the early series he was helped by 'The Big Guy in the Sky' - a disembodied voice giving the scores, and later by 'Wolfie' - John Ireland dressed as Mozart...
, until 2002. In 2003, Nicholls toured the country with Mark Speight
Mark Speight
Mark Warwick Fordham Speight was an English television presenter, best known as the host of children's art programme SMart. Speight grew up in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist...
in the Speight of the Art roadshow.
She was on the second series of Sooty Heights
Sooty Heights
Sooty Heights is a British children's television series that aired on ITV from 27 September 27 1999 until 11 December 2000. It replaced Sooty & Co that was presented by Mathew Corbett from 1993–1998...
.
Sky Movies
In July 2002, Nicholls took over the continuity announcementsContinuity (broadcasting)
'Continuity' or 'presentation' is a term used in broadcasting, especially in the United Kingdom , to refer to announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes...
for Sky Movies
Sky Movies
Sky Movies is the collective name for the premium subscription television movie channels operated by Sky Television, and later British Sky Broadcasting. It has around 5 million subscribers, via satellite, cable and IPTV in the UK and Ireland...
, she left in October 2003.
The Unprofessionals
In 2004, Nicholls presented another series, broadcast on Tyne TeesTyne Tees Television
Tyne Tees Television is the ITV television franchise for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire. As of 2009, it forms part of a non-franchise ITV Tyne Tees & Border region, shared with the ITV Border region...
; The Unprofessionals where, along with a co-presenter, she was given different tasks to perform including pole dancing
Pole dance
Pole dance is a form of performing art, a combination of dance and gymnastics. It involves dancing and performing acrobatic tricks with a vertical pole and is an increasingly popular form of fitness and dance, practised by many enthusiasts in gyms or dedicated dance studios...
, a children's party entertainer, a drain unblocker and a taxidermist
Taxidermy
Taxidermy is the act of mounting or reproducing dead animals for display or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all vertebrate species of animals, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians...
.
NTL Broadband UK
During Christmas 2004/5, Nicholls was a presenter on the NTL Broadband UK channel.Text2Date
In 2006, Nicholls became one of the presenters of Text2Date, a programme which encourages participants to meet and date by using mobile phone text messages. The show is broadcast nightly from 2300 - 0200 on the Performance Channel on Sky DigitalSky Digital (UK & Ireland)
Sky is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28.2° east and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5°E. The service was originally launched as Sky Digital, distinguishing it from the original...
channel 271.
Guest appearances
Nicholls' enthusiasm and personality has led to numerous guest appearances on programmes, including: Trisha, The Last Word, This MorningThis Morning (TV series)
This Morning is a British daytime television programme broadcast on ITV. As of September 2011, its main presenters are Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, and Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, with various other presenters standing in for illness or contributing to sections of the programme.The...
, Bedrock, Boys & Girls, Dick and Dom in da Bungalow
Dick and Dom in da Bungalow
Dick and Dom in da Bungalow was a CBBC children's entertainment television series presented by the duo Dick and Dom...
, Sport on 5, and Granada Soccer Night. She was also the voice behind the late night documentary series about North West nightlife called Party Fever which was shown on Granada
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
.
Salford City Radio 94.4FM
Danielle currently presents a radio show on 94.4FM, Salford City RadioSalford City Radio
94.4FM Salford City Radio is a triple award winning community radio station based in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester. It launched in September 2007 after securing a 5 year FM licence to broadcast full time on 94.4 MHz. The station broadcasts a mixture of community news, music and talk shows...
, every Friday at 13:00.
Acting
Nicholls took a brief absence from CITV in December 2000, when she took to the stage displaying her acting, singing and dancing talents, playing the leading role of Snow WhiteSnow White
"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
at the Opera House in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
. The following years, she appeared as Snow White in the other successful pantomimes at Northampton
Northampton
Northampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. Situated about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, Northampton lies on the River Nene and is the county town of Northamptonshire. The demonym of Northampton is...
, Sunderland, Southport
Southport
Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. During the 2001 census Southport was recorded as having a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England...
and Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort, town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, which is within the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is located on the Bristol Channel coast, south west of Bristol, spanning the coast between the bounding high ground of Worlebury...
, and in December 2005/January 2006, playing another leading role as Fairy Crystal in the Snow White pantomime at the Grand Opera House in York
York
York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
.
As well as the annual pantomime performances, in 2004 she also starred on stage in the Hammond Production Group's The Young Ones Summer Holiday in Worthing
Worthing
Worthing is a large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, forming part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester...
.