June Sarpong
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June Konadu Sarpong (born 31 May 1977) is a British television broadcaster and former panelist on ITV's Loose Women.
She is currently a panelist on Sky News' The Pledge.
Sarpong was appointed as the BBC's first Director of Creative Diversity in October 2019.
Early life and education
Sarpong was born in Newham, London, to Ghanaian parents Thelma (née Amihere) and Samuel Sarpong. She attended Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow.
Personal life
Sam Sarpong, the late actor and host of MTV's Yo Momma, was her older brother. He died on October 26, 2015 at the age of 40 after crashing off a bridge in Pasadena, California.
Career
She began her radio work with Kiss 100 in 1997 and then became a MTV UK and Ireland host (MTV Dance Floor Chart). She appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank in 2001 (ITV). Karen Blair, one of Channel 4's female stars, spoke with Tony Blair for a T4 special called When Tony Met June, which aired in January 2005. Lipgloss Productions is she's own production company. A sitcom and a climate change programme are two of the projects in progress.
Sarpong has hosted various shows in recent years, including Your Face Or Mine, a game show co-hosted with Jimmy Carr for E4; Dirty Laundry, an urban talk-show filmed in Mexico for Channel 4, and Playing It Straight, a dating game-show filmed in India for Channel 4, and Party In The Park. She has been a regular at the MOBO Awards for three years in a row. She has appeared on BBC Television's Question Time, Channel 4's 8 Out of ten Cats, and BBC's Have I Got News for You. For This Week, she has appeared on the programme Never Mind the Buzzcocks and published articles on youth culture. She appeared on ITV2's WAGs Boutique in 2006. Sarpong has also appeared on the third series of Bo' Selecta!
Sarpong appeared in the Extras Special Series Finale with Ricky Gervais (2007). On October 22, 2007, it was announced that she had resigned from her T4 presenter job after nine years. Her last show was televised on December 23, 2007.
Sarpong appeared in Little Miss Jocelyn number 2, episode 3, (2008). Michael Jackson, The Search for...His Spirit, a Sky1 program starring Michael Jackson, in which she toured locations vital to Jackson's life looking for signs of his ghost. The program was televised as part of a two-bill project, the second part of which featured a live session hosted by Derek Acorah for which Sarpong once more acted as the host.
Sarpong appeared on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory show broadcast on TruTV as an interviewer. On the first episode, she said that the 2004 Tsunami was not preceded by "pretremors or any alert." Peter Hadfield, a journalist, sluggishly rejected this assertion as unsupported by seismological findings and scientific papers.
In late 2013, Elton John performed a version of his 1970 hit "Your Song" with the adverb "You're June Sarpong" as an obvious reference to an in-joke between the two performers from a charity function earlier this year.
Loose Women welcomed her to the panel on March 23 following Celebrity Juice's launch of "#WheresJuneGone" on March 19, 2015. Sarpong appeared on Celebrity Juice, in Fearne Cotton's team, on April 2nd, marking her first appearance on screen.
Sarpong appeared as a guest panelist on 23 March 2015, Coleen Nolan, and Janet Street-Porter, a further three times on April, 17 April, and 1 May. Sarpong appeared on the show again on May 15th, first as the back-up for Sherrie Hewson when Hewson was filming Benidorm, and then on July 21, 2015, she became a regular. She debuted on December 2016 and made 46 appearances in total, and left the show in December 2016.
Following the death of her brother, June made an emotional address live on Loose Women on January 7, 2016. The first part of the exhibition was devoted to him. Throughout the run of the exhibition, a picture of a rainbow was re-tweeted more than 5,000 times, as well as in his memory. On BBC Two, she has been a panelist on two series of Debatable.
June has been on Sky News The Pledge since April 2016, and she has been on a regular basis.
Diversify: Six Degrees of integration (2017) and The Power of Women (2018).