Konnie Huq
Konnie Huq was born in Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom on July 17th, 1975 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 48, Konnie Huq biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq (born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter and writer.
She has been the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having appeared on the television from 1 December 1997 to September 2008.
On ITV2, she appeared in the 2010 series of The Xtra Factor.
Early life
Kanak Asha Huq was born in London's Hammersmith district on July 17, 1975, the daughter of Muslim parents who immigrated from Bangladesh in the 1960s. Nutun and future Labour Party politician Rupa grew up in London's Ealing district. She studied at Notting Hill & Ealing High School and obtained nine GCSEs, followed by A-levels in chemistry, mathematics, and physics. She went on to study economics at Robinson College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2:1 degree.
Personal life
After a nine-month marriage, Huq married writer and satirist Charlie Brooker at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on July 26th. They have two sons. Huq has said she reduced her television appearances so that she could concentrate on her children.
At the 2010 general election, Huq voted for the Labour Party. At the 2015 general election, Rupa was elected as the Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton.
Huq was one of 80 torch carriers on the torch's ride to Beijing on April 6, 2008. A protester in Ladbroke Grove attempted to grab the torch from her as she was going to pass it to the next runner. She was not injured in the shooting, but the police wrestled the protester to the ground and arrested him.
Career
Huq performed part-time at the National Youth Music Theatre. She appeared on Blue Peter in 1989, aged 14 and performed as a solo. She appeared alongside Jude Law in Captain Stirrick's National Youth Music Theatre production the following year.
Huq interviewed Labour chief Neil Kinnock for the children's program Newsround and then emerged as a contestant on Blockbusters in the same year. In the Series 2 episode "I'm Going Slightly Mad," she appeared as an uncredited extra playing a schoolgirl.
Her debut on television, TVFM, was on the satellite television show "Beforet" at the age of 16. She appeared on Eat Your Words, a GMTV children's quiz show on Saturday mornings, from 1994 to 1996. Prior to Simon Parkin's arrival, she was aided by Mark Speight. Huq appeared on Channel Five's early morning children's show Milkshake in 1997, several months before joining Blue Peter.
Starting on December 1, Huq hosted the BBC children's television show Blue Peter. She visited the village in Bangladesh where her family lived earlier in her tenure as a host. Huq became an extra in the Bollywood film Musafir (2004) and trained alongside the program's actors. She travelled to Angola for the 2004 Welcome Home appeal, in the hopes of reunited children and their families who had been separated due to war. She set a Guinness World Record by pinning 17 Blue Peter Badges onto fellow host Andy Akinwolere's shirt in a minute in 2008. After the results of a competition to determine the celebrity owner of a pair of shoes was faked, she apologised on air in March 2007.
Huq revealed on May 31 that she would leave Blue Peter after a month of waiting. She hosted her last Blue Peter on January 22, 2008, with a clip showing her highlights from the program's ten years. She is the third longest-serving female host in the United Kingdom and the longest-serving female host, surpassing Valerie Singleton's record on October 1st. With a total of 10, she holds the record for being co-presenter while on the program. Stuart Miles, Katy Hill, Romana D'Annunzio, Richard Bacon, Simon Thomas, Simon Thomas, James Watson, Matthew Baker, Liz Barker, Zoe Salmon, Gethin Jones, and Andy Akinwolere are among those who have written about Stuart Miles, Katy Hill, Katy Hill, Romana D'Annunzio, Richard Bacon, Richard Bacon, Richard Bacon, Richard Bacon, Simon Bacon, Simon Thomas, Simon Thomas,
Huq co-presented the CBBC Channel's Top 40 chart show in 2002 and 2004, and in early 2003 she appeared briefly on Top of the Pops. On the week of ten September 2007, she appeared on GMTV's LK Today coverage of New York Fashion Week. She appeared on the comedy gameshow 8 out of ten Cats in June 2007.
Huq appeared on a celebrity version of Ready Steady Cook with Blue Peter co-presenter Andy Akinwolere in December 2007. She began presenting the ITV1 London show London Talking, a political debate show, alongside Vanessa Feltz and Nick Ferrari in 2007, and co-presented some of BBC News' weekly Your News programs in 2008. Huq was the main host of Channel Five's third series, which was a documentary series about the animals and workers at Chester and Colchester Zoos in 2008. In 2008, Huq hosted The Red Bull Air Race with Dougie Anderson for Channel 4 in 2008.
On BBC Four, Huq appeared with her future husband Charlie Brooker in a satirical review show called Screenwipe in December 2008. Konnie's Great British Wee was a parody of a "mission film" named "Konnie's Great British Wee." On December 18, 2008, she appeared with M.P. as a guest on a political show This Week. Charles Kennedy.
On Sundays on Sky1, she smashed Guinness World Records Smashed with Steve Jones. Huq's Entertainment Show Hannah-Oke on The Disney Channel began on May 15, 2009, with Duncan James. The show was a "Hannah Montana themed karaoke-style game show." Huq Xtra Factor's seventh series of The Xtra Factor on ITV2, replacing Holly Willoughby, who was unable to perform the role due to her continuing commitments at This Morning.
Huq appeared in an episode of the ITV2 documentary series Under Pressure in February 2011, where she attempted to learn how to be a rapper. "Will Konnie Huq it up?" the show's trailers ask. She was trained by Akala and appeared at IndigO2 as a teenager.
Live from Stratford upon Avon, a web project aimed at displaying theatre performances in schools, has been on display for two years. The project ran I, Cinna (The Poet), a Tim Crouch's work about the poet in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar's tragedy, was killed by a crowd after being mistaken for a conspirator in July 2012. A recording of Richard II's Globe Theatre performance was shown in 3,000 schools in November 2013. Huq's hosted a question-and-answer session after the performances were followed by a question-and-answer session.
Huq joined Tony Wilson, Alex James, and Emily Rose on Channel 4 Radio on September 15, 2006, becoming one of the presenters of The Tube with Tony Wilson, Alex James, and Emily Rose. On November 3, 2006, the first edition of the magazine was released. In September 2007, Huq made her debut as a news presenter on the BBC Asian Network, as part of a series of documentaries on a radio current affairs programme called the Asian Network Report. In 2010, she appeared on Archive, marking forty years of Sesame Street. Ada Lovelace was the participant of a radio 4 biographical series Great Lives in 2013, where participants select someone who has inspired them, and she chose Ada Lovelace.
In 2001, she first appeared in The Kumars as herself. She appeared in "Invasion of the Bane" and in the CBBC's "The Big Freeze" episode in 2007. In March 2009, she appeared in the FM show "Golden Lady" again. In the last episode of Robin Hood's second series, she played a villainous servant (also called Konnie).
In 2013, Huq appeared in the television comedy series "Help a Blameless Child" (Haywood). She appeared in Good Omens briefly as a breakfast television presenter based on the book written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Huq received the Best Rising Star Screenplay Angel award at the Monaco International Film Festival in December 2009 for her screenplay Ahmed and Mildred, a story that is described as "a superhero themed journey into the imagination of two young children as they experience love at first sight." Ahmed and Mildred were selected as one of the first projects to receive Film London support in March 2014 to enable production to take place.
She co-wrote the second episode of Channel 4's anthology film "Fifteen Million Merits," a parody of entertainment shows, with her partner Charlie Brooker. In 2017, the Barbican Centre unveiled an exhibit containing extracts from the episode.
Huq was one of the speakers commemorating Ada Lovelace Day at the Royal Institution on October 14th. Huq hosted VOOM 2016, a pitch competition for Virgin Media Business, on June 29, 2016.
Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World was released in 2019 and is the first in a planned three-book series. Cookie Haque, a schoolgirl who loves learning about science and learning about science, and what happens if her best friend moves away, and a boy who Cookie describes as the world's most annoying child, is moved next door. Huq wrote and illustrated the book. Huq has described Cookie as "a mix of Wimpy Kid and Bridget Jones." The next book in the series, with the subject of climate change, was set to be published in August 2020.