Zoe Salmon

At 44 years old, Zoe Salmon has this physical status:

Zöe Salmon (born 7 January 1980) is a Northern Ireland television presenter who hosted the children's television show Blue Peter from 23 December 2004 to May 2008.

In early 2009, she appeared on Dancing on Ice for the second time.

She was the 1999 Miss Northern Ireland.

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Life and career

Salmon was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. While growing up in Bangor, a town on Northern Ireland's east coast, she attended Kilmaine Primary School and Glenlola Collegiate School. She says it is her "favourite place." It's a beautiful seaside town with a marina that is lovely in the summer." She earned a 2:1 degree in law at Queen's University, Belfast, before deciding to qualify as a solicitor. In 1999, she was crowned Miss Northern Ireland (beating future Big Brother contestant Orlaith McAllister). In 2009, she was ranked number 20 on FHM's Top 100 Sexiest Women.

Salmon married William Corrie in Barbados in 2016. Salmon's first child, Fitz (Fitzwilliam) Salmon-Corrie, was born on April 1, 2022.

On the 25th of October 2004, Salmon was named as the 30th Blue Peter host. She appeared on the show for the first time on December 23, 2004, in the show's Christmas special. When Liz Barker was first put on maternity leave, she was supposed to substitute her; however, Barker had already returned by the time Salmon made her debut. Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas, Matt Baker, Liz Barker, Gethin Jones, and Andy Akinwolere appeared on the program.

She said "I'd Try Anything Once," which sparked a trend in her being asked to do dangerous or embarrassing things, such as wing-walking on the roof of an antique biplane and stamp collecting. When she said on her blog that she had aspire to be sawn in half by a magician, viewers began a campaign encouraging her to become a magician's assistant. Salmon filmed a contest in which she supported a magician with a number of illusions, including levitation and a transposition illusion named "The Assistants Revenge." After the film segment of the challenge had been shown, Salmon joined Salmon in the studio for a live display of the sawing in half illusion, in which Salmon was sawn in half inside a clear box.

In 2006, she contributed to the show on the making of the film St Trinians. As a non-speaking extra, she played a small part in the film.

In June 2008, Salmon debuted on the show at the beginning of the summer break, as well as Gethin Jones.

The BBC received reports after it was alleged that her job was only advertised in Northern Ireland and Scotland, effectively discriminating against people with particular regional accents. However, the BBC denied any discrimination and said the advertisement had been published in newspapers around the UK.

According to other media reports, "suggest" the program and raise ratings in the competitive kid's industry. It is a belief that the Blue Peter manufacturers denied. In an article in The Guardian, novelist Kate Figes wrote that Salmon "rarely seems relaxed around children" and speaks to them in slow, patronizing tones. My daughters are older and fatuous, and she does not like her any more than I do." Salmon was "encouraged by the program editors to parade herself as a sexual bimbo," Figes said, and that the program was "sexed up or dumbed down." The article was characterized as 'character assassination,' by Richard Marson, the editor of Blue Peter', and denied that the article was "being sexed up or dumbed down."

Salmon was chastised for selecting a symbol for a 'Best of British' emblem, which would be used by British Airways to decorate a Boeing 757. 'I'm from Ulster, and I'd like to cover a plane with the Red Hand of Ulster: our national symbol.' Salmon is often used by loyalists and paramilitaries, but Republicans and nationalists also use it, as well as the old Northern Ireland flag and the GAA's crest, which includes a map of Ireland covered in the Union Jack.

Salmon took to Twitter in 2012 when Belfast City Council rejected a referendum that stated that it should only be flown on designated days.

In a little-known re-telling of the Wizard of Oz in 1995, one of her earliest roles was a brief appearance as the original bearer of the Ruby Slippers. She had applied for Dorothy but Denise van Outen lost to Denise van Outen.

Salmon reported the findings of the Northern Ireland region in Making Your Mind Up, the United Kingdom's national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, which took place in 2005. "How about you, Terry?" she greeted the television audience in Belfast with a line.

Salmon appeared in the 2007 version of the Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, despite several celebrities, including BBC Sport host and journalist Ray Stubbs, former CBBC presenter Angellica Bell, and BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Colin Murray, all of whom included BBC Sport presenter and journalist Salmon Stubbs. Salmon was the fifth celebrity to be voted out. Shayne Ward and Shayne Ward were also in 2007 when she took over the Belfast Christmas lights.

Hot Rods, which started a BBC2 run on August 30th, after leaving Blue Peter in June 2008. She appeared on Sky1's Noel Edmonds and Same Difference as a guest at a children's party in Morpeth, Northumberland.

Salmon competed in the fourth series of Dancing on Ice, teaming Matt Evers and reaching the quarter-finals.

Salmon appeared on The Chris Moyles Show in January 2009 and spent time with early breakfast host Greg James as part of the BBC Radio 1 money experiment.

Dale Winton hosted Hole in the Wall on Saturday night, appearing on the first episode of BBC One Hole in the Wall. 'Mo White,' Dani's long-lost celebrity pal 'Mo White' appears in CBBC's Dani's House. In May 2009, she appeared in FHM magazine with another Blue Peter ex-presenter Konnie Huq. The issue containing the two women featured two separate collectable covers was printed on two separate separate covers, but the magazine's content was identical.

She appeared on Jack Dee's Team in 2009 and appeared on Shooting Stars.

Skillicious, the eight-part series created by Nigel Clarke in 2009. The children were encouraged to try out new skills on the show. Beatboxing was her favorite hobby. With Martin Bayfield, she co-presented the World's Best Man competition in the United Kingdom and joined her as one of the presenters on the new Sky1 live lifestyle chat show Angela and Friends.

On February 15, she hosted The Big Fat Truth About Low Fat Foods, in which she underwent an experiment in which she promised to be filmed during a month of eating a diet based solely on diet and 'healthy' pre-processed foods.

Zoe hosted "Celebrity Wish List" on Channel 5 on October 31, 2011, where she delighted 500 Scottish Young Carers at their annual weekend break by bringing McFly to appear for them and putting together a film to help the Carers secure funding for future events.

She co-hosted Compete for the Meat with Al Murray on Dave in 2011.

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