Nicci Jolly

Last updated

Nicci Jolly
Born (1981-03-10) 10 March 1981 (age 41)
Dundee, Scotland

Nicola Jolly is a Scottish television presenter and former beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Scotland, 2003 and competed in Miss World 2003.

Contents

Biography

Jolly has been a presenter for various television shows such as Sky, the BBC, and STV. Though much of her work is sport-related, Jolly has also presented a segment on the Beslan crisis for Richard & Judy, appeared as a guest presenter on This Week, and was a contestant on 'Celebrity Fear Factor . She has been a columnist for the Evening Express.

In addition to her work for television and other media, Jolly is also involved in promoting various charities. She is the face of the Cornerstone Cycle Challenge [1] and has lent her support to a number of other charities, including Streetwork, [2] the SSPCA, [3] and CHAS. [4]

Jolly has also participated in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race [5]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carol Smillie</span> Scottish television presenter

Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television presenter, actress and former model. Smillie became famous as a presenter on British TV during the 1990s and early 2000s. She was best known for assisting Nicky Campbell on the UK version of the game show Wheel of Fortune between 1989 and 1994. Between 1996 and 2003, she was the main presenter on the BBC One home makeover show Changing Rooms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Myleene Klass</span> British media personality

Myleene Angela Klass is a British singer, presenter, musician, model and businesswoman. She was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released two solo classical crossover albums in 2003 and 2007. More recently, Klass has been a television and radio presenter. She has hosted television series including Popstar to Operastar (2010–2011) and BBQ Champ (2015) on ITV and The One Show (2007) on BBC One. She was briefly a regular panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gloria Hunniford</span> Northern Irish television singer

Mary Winifred Gloria Hunniford, OBE is a Northern Irish television and radio presenter, broadcaster and singer. She is known for presenting programmes on the BBC and ITV, such as Rip Off Britain, and her regular appearances as a panellist on Loose Women. She has been a regular reporter on This Morning and The One Show. She also had a singing career between the 1960s and 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angela Rippon</span> English television presenter

Angela May Rippon is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975. She was the first female journalist permanently to present the BBC national television news, and the second female news presenter on British television after Barbara Mandell on Independent Television News (ITN) in 1955.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sara Cox</span> English broadcaster

Sara Joanne Cyzer is an English broadcaster. She presented Radio 1 Breakfast on BBC Radio 1 from 3 April 2000 until 19 December 2003. Since January 2019 she now hosts the BBC Radio 2 drivetime show, Monday–Friday 4pm–7pm.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mariella Frostrup</span> British journalist and presenter

Mariella Frostrup is a British journalist and presenter, known in British television and radio mainly for arts programmes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gail Porter</span> Scottish television personality, former model and actress

Gail Porter is a Scottish television personality, former model and actress. She started her television career in children's TV, before branching out into modelling and presenting mainstream TV. In the 1990s, she famously posed nude for FHM, which was projected on to the Houses of Parliament. Later in her career, Porter has been affected by alopecia, a condition which causes hair loss.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lorraine Kelly</span> British presenter and journalist

Lorraine Kelly, is a Scottish journalist and television presenter. She has presented various television shows for ITV, including Good Morning Britain (1988–1992), GMTV (1993–2010), This Morning, Daybreak (2012–2014), The Sun Military Awards (2016–present), STV Children's Appeal (2016–present), and her eponymous programme Lorraine (2010–present).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nell McAndrew</span> English glamour model

Tracey Jane McAndrew, known as Nell McAndrew, is an English glamour model, TV presenter and fitness trainer. She is also an accomplished amateur athlete, with a marathon personal best time of 2:54:39.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edith Bowman</span> Scottish radio DJ and television presenter

Edith Eleanor Smith is a Scottish radio DJ and television presenter. She hosted Colin and Edith, weekday afternoons, weekend breakfast, and The Radio 1 Review on BBC Radio 1 until 2014 and has presented a variety of music-related television shows and music festivals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clare Balding</span> English broadcaster, journalist, TV presenter and author

Clare Victoria Balding is an English broadcaster, journalist, and author. She currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4, BT Sport, is the current president of the Rugby Football League (RFL) and formerly presented the religious programme Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dee Caffari</span>

Denise "Dee" Caffari MBE is a British sailor, and in 2006 became the first woman to sail single-handedly and non-stop around the world "the wrong way"; westward against the prevailing winds and currents. In February 2009, Caffari completed the Vendée Globe race and set a new record to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, around the world in both directions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clipper Round the World Yacht Race</span> Biennial yacht race to partially or fully circumnavigate the globe

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is a biennial race that takes paying amateur crews on one or more legs of a circumnavigation of the globe in 11 specially-designed identical yachts owned by Clipper Ventures. Professional skippers and additional qualified persons (AQPs) lead each teams on the 10-month journey. All participants must complete a four week training course before starting the race. The race was conceived in 1995 by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and is run by Clipper Ventures plc. The race has been held every two years since 1996, although in 2004 there was not a race and biennial racing resumed in 2005.

Lukwesa Burak is a news presenter and former weather presenter for BBC News in the UK. Previously, she worked for Al Jazeera English, Sky News and before that Africa Edition on eNCA, based in South Africa. She was formerly a weather forecaster and then news presenter in the United Kingdom, for East Midlands Today, a regional television news programme covering the Midlands area of Central England, followed by news presenter for Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting, based in London.

Nicola McLean is a Scottish actress, model, choreographer and media personality and presenter. She is a former Miss Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fearne Cotton</span> English television and radio presenter

Fearne Wood is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s presenting various children's television shows for GMTV, CITV and CBBC. In 2007, Cotton presented The Xtra Factor, an ITV2 spin-off from the main show. From 2008 to 2018, she was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice. She presented Top of the Pops from 2004 to 2021, and the Red Nose Day and Children in Need telethons.

Mary Elizabeth Marquis is a former leading interviewer and presenter on BBC Scotland from the mid-1960s, and became the face of the network's evening news programme Reporting Scotland until 1988, including the whole of the 1970s Nationwide era when input from BBC broadcasters based at the corporation's other studios around the UK contributed to a national programme.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amy Willerton</span> British beauty pageant contestant and television personality

Amy Willerton is an English television presenter, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for her work with ITV and winning the title of Miss Universe Great Britain and representing Great Britain at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant. She got her big modelling break when she was discovered by Katie Price as a teenager. She appeared on the reality TV competition series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2013 and finished in fifth place. In 2015, she was placed fourteenth in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women. In 2017, she placed fourth in Channel 4's The Jump.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wendy Tuck</span> Australian skipper

Wendy Tuck is a yachtswoman and previous chief instructor and principal at the Clipper Race training base in Sydney, Australia. She was the first female skipper to win a round-the-world yacht race.

References