Vanessa Feltz
Vanessa Feltz was born in Islington, England, United Kingdom on February 21st, 1962 and is the Radio Host. At the age of 62, Vanessa Feltz biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television personality, broadcaster and journalist.
Feltz currently presents an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2 and the Breakfast show on BBC Radio London.
She also regularly sits in for Sara Cox on the Teatime show on BBC Radio 2.
Early life
Vanessa Feltz was born in Islington, London, and grew up in Pine Grove, Totteridge. She has a sister, Julia who is 3 years her junior. On her radio show she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London" and her middle class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof". Her father, Norman, was in the lingerie business.
Feltz was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, an independent school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. She then read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a first class honours degree.
Personal life
Feltz married Michael Kurer in 1985. and they divorced in 2000. In December 2006, Feltz became engaged to singer Ben Ofoedu. They originally planned to marry the following year but they have remained engaged since then.
She has two daughters and four grandchildren. Her elder daughter is Allegra Benitah, a former tax lawyer who is now a television baker and chef.
She lives with Ofoedu in St John's Wood, London, in a house which was previously owned by Charles Saatchi, and which was featured in Sir John Betjeman's documentary Metro‑Land (1973).
Career
Feltz was the first female columnist for The Jewish Chronicle and later joined the Daily Mirror as the first female columnist. What Are These Strawberries Doing on My Nipples? She wrote her first book at this point, What Are These Strawberries Doing? For the Fruit Salad, I Need Them.
Feltz was replaced by Paula Yates on Channel 4's morning TV show The Big Breakfast, a regular feature on which she questioned celebrities while not lying on a bed. While interviewing Rolf Harris on the program, she has said he sexually assaulted her. Feltz was tricked by the spoof TV show Brass Eye in 1997. She served as a magistrate from the age of 28, but she was told to stand down after being identified by the defendants from her television appearances.
Vanessa, the ITV daytime television chat show produced by Anglia Television, spoke to her. In 1998, she went to the BBC to host The Vanessa Show, a similar show. Trisha has taken over ITV's show.
In 1999, the Vanessa Show suffered from bad publicity because some of the guests were rumoured to have been actors. Despite her not being involved in the reservation of guests, Feltz was seen to be at fault, and the performance was cancelled shortly thereafter.
Feltz appeared on BBC London 94.9 in 2001 to host a mid-afternoon phone show, and it has continued to run since then, from 2005 to 2015 at 09.00 to noon. It was from 07.00 to ten.00 Monday, from 2016 to Friday, from 07.00 to ten.00 on Monday. On August 26, 2022, she hosted her last show for the station.
Also in 2001, Feltz was a contestant on the first series of Celebrity Big Brother. On several occasions, she has appeared on its spin-off shows Big Brother's Big Mouth, Big Brother's Little Brother, and Big Brother's Bit on the Side.
She made a cameo appearance in the Midlands' comedy film Once Upon a Time in 2002. In Channel 4's list of the 100 Worst Britons, she came in 93rd in May 2003.
Feltz appeared on five's The Wright Stuff between 2003 and 2005, but she had to cancel the performance due to the time conflicts with her new radio show.
In 2004, she appeared in a sketch for the fictional slimming group Fat Fighters in the first episode of BBC comedy sketch show Little Britain. Also in that year, she appeared in the second season of reality TV show Celebrity Fit Club in the hopes of losing weight.
Feltz has appeared on three separate episodes of The Weakest Link. She made it to the final round in two episodes, but she lost to Sue Perkins on one occasion and to Tony Slattery on the other. The third episode on which she appeared was The Weakest Link's special 1,000 Celebratory episode to celebrate 1,000 episodes. She was the 6th one to vote against.
Feltz' other game show appearances include an episode of Russian Roulette hosted by Rhona Cameron.
Feltz and Ofoedu won their episode of the Virgin One show A Restaurant in our Living Room in 2010, where they were preparing a dinner for 25 people.
Feltz returned to the Big Brother house on September 3, 2010, the last series to be broadcast on Channel 4, and he's hoping to return to the Big Brother house. On September 8, she was evicted from the house two days before the final.
In 2011, Feltz's radio and television hosting increased. She took over the BBC Radio 2 Early Breakfast Show on January 17, 2011 from 05:00 to 6:30 a weekday, in a slot that had previously been occupied by Sarah Kennedy. "Feltz's voice was like lemon tea with honey," Gillian Reynolds, a radio journalist for the Daily Telegraph, compared the latter to lemon tea with honey." Her show was postponed by an hour and started at 04:00 hrs in January 2021 and was on display at a different date. When Vine was away, she often covered Jeremy Vine's news and current affairs show on Radio 2 when she was away. During this period, her early breakfast was covered by another presenter, usually Nicki Chapman. Feltz declared on July 28, 2022, that she would leave the show the following day and Radio 2 after two weeks of reporting for Jeremy Vine on August 26.
Following poor ratings for the morning slot, Channel 5 moved The Vanessa Show to a 14:15 slot on March 7, 2011. Since being on live broadcasts of her TV show after her morning radio commitments, Feltz was able to appear in live versions of her morning show. The show was supposed to begin in September 2011 and finally expanded, but it never went on. Feltz was "officially the most difficult working woman in broadcasting" according to the Guardian's "Media Monkey" blog, due to her weekday broadcasting obligations.
She returned to the Celebrity Big Brother house on September 7th, 2013 to take part in a competition. She left the house the same day.
Feltz was one of three women, alongside Claudia Winkleman and Zoe Ball, among the ten best paid BBC presenters with a salary of £355,000 in July 2019.