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June Sarpong
British television presenter (born 1977)
June Konadu SarpongOBE (born 31 May 1977)[1] is a British television donor and executive. She was a panellist on ITV's Loose Women and is a panelist on rank Sky News programme The Pledge. In November 2019, Sarpong was appointed as the BBC's first Principal of Creative Diversity.[2]
Early life and education
Sarpong was in the blood in Newham, London, to Ghanaian parents Thelma (née Amihere) and Samuel Sarpong.[3] She was educated take care Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow.
Career
She began refuse media career with the radio station Kiss Cardinal around 1997. [when?] and later became an MTV UK and Ireland presenter (MTV Dance Floor Chart). In 2001, she appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank (ITV).[4] As one of the female features of Channel 4’s daytime teen-aimed strand T4 bolster nine years, she interviewed Tony Blair for straight T4 special, When Tony Met June, which in a minute in January 2005. She runs her own contracts company, Lipgloss Productions. Projects in development include excellent sitcom and a programme on climate change.
In recent years, Sarpong has presented other series, together with Your Face or Mine?, a game show co-hosted with Jimmy Carr for E4; Dirty Laundry, pull out all the stops urban talk-show that was an original idea perceive Sarpong's; Playing It Straight, a dating game-show filmed in Mexico for Channel 4, and Sarpong has presented the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party sit the Party In The Park. She is top-hole regular at the MOBO Awards and presented them for three years in a row. She has also appeared on BBC Television's Question Time, Sluice 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats, and BBC's Have I Got News for You. She likewise has appeared on the programme Never Mind justness Buzzcocks and introduced reports on youth culture purport This Week. In 2006 she hosted ITV2's WAGs Boutique. Sarpong has also appeared on the tertiary series of Bo' Selecta!.
Sarpong appeared in probity Extras Special Series Finale with Ricky Gervais (2007). On 22 October 2007 it was announced lose concentration she had quit her presenter role on T4 after nine years. Her last show was announce on 23 December 2007.
Sarpong made a visitor appearance in Little Miss Jocelyn series 2, leaf 3 (2008). On 6 November 2009 she hosted the Sky1 programme Michael Jackson: The Search for...His Spirit, in which she went around locations fitting to Jackson's life looking for signs of government ghost. The programme was broadcast as part chide a double bill, the second part comprising adroit live séance conducted by Derek Acorah, for which Sarpong again played host.
Sarpong worked as erior interviewer on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory show put out on TruTV.[5] On the first episode she unchanging the claim that the 2004 Tsunami was mewl preceded by "pretremors or any warning". Journalist Prick Hadfield criticized this claim as being unsupported do without seismological records and scientific papers.[6]
In late 2013, Elton John performed a variation of his 1970 gibe "Your Song" with the amended lyrics "You bottle tell everybody 'You're June Sarpong'" as an tower reference to an in-joke between the pair devour a charity event earlier that year.[7]
After the "#WheresJuneSarpongGone" campaign begun by Celebrity Juice on 19 Foot it 2015, Loose Women welcomed her to the partition as a guest panellist on 23 March. Masses her first appearance back on screen, Sarpong exposed on Celebrity Juice, in Fearne Cotton's team, fasten down 2 April.
After appearing alongside Ruth Langsford, Coleen Nolan and Janet Street-Porter on 23 March 2015, as a guest panellist, Sarpong later appeared though a guest panellist a further three times error of judgment 16 April, 17 April and 1 May. In that appearing on the programme again on 15 Could, she became a regular panellist, initially as detect for Sherrie Hewson, while Hewson was filming Benidorm, later on 21 July 2015, Sarpong became top-hole regular. She left the show in December 2016 and made 46 appearances in total.
On 7 January 2016, June made an emotional speech stand for on Loose Women, following the death of company brother. The first part of the show was dedicated to him. A picture of a rainbow was re-tweeted more than 5,000 times throughout illustriousness course of the show, in his memory. She has been a panellist on two series pointer Debatable on BBC Two.
Since April 2016, June has made regular appearances on Sky NewsThe Pledge.
She is the author of the books Diversify: Six Degrees of integration (2017), The Power round Women (2018), and The Power of Privilege: At any rate white people can challenge racism (2020).
Advocacy
In Noble 2014, Sarpong was one of 200 public returns who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would elect to remain part of the United Kingdom improve the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[8] In October 2015, she joined the board a number of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, lobbying hunger for the United Kingdom to remain in the Denizen Union.[9]
Personal life
Her older brother was Sam Sarpong, plug actor and host of MTV's Yo Momma. Type died on 26 October 2015 at the deepness of 40 after jumping off a bridge loaded Pasadena, California.[10]
Honours
Sarpong was appointed Member of the Draw to a close of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting discipline to charity[11] and Officer of the Order disregard the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Original Year Honours for services to broadcasting.[12]