Jodie Prenger was born on 12 June 1979 and is an English actress and singer, best known as the winner of BBC television series I'd Do Anything on 31 May 2008 and the second series of The Biggest Loser in 2006.
36 Facts About Jodie Prenger
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Jodie Prenger has performed extensively on the cabaret circuit in Northern England and particularly her hometown of Blackpool and Fylde coast where she has worked as an agony aunt.
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Jodie Prenger won the second series of The Biggest Loser in 2006, making her the first female in the world to win the show, starting the show a size 22 and weighing 115 kilograms.
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In 2006, Jodie Prenger was featured on Charlotte Coyle's Fat Beauty Contest on Channel 4, where Coyle searched for plus-sized models for a beauty pageant.
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On 10 March 2009, Jodie Prenger appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show and spoke about her time on The Biggest Loser.
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Jodie Prenger commented that she believed all women should have curves.
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Jodie Prenger attended auditions for the show in Manchester in January 2008, and made it through to the final 42 at "Nancy School" from where she was eventually chosen as one of the twelve finalists to perform in the live shows each week.
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Jodie Prenger posed in a wedding dress to recreate the cover of the album Like a Virgin.
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Jodie Prenger has got a lovely voice and a super personality.
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Jodie Prenger was always going to be the people's choice," adding " I think people love her, they love her open personality.
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Jodie Prenger's strengths are her personality and her very, very strong voice.
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Jodie Prenger performed on Monday and Tuesday evenings, Wednesday matinees, Friday evenings and both the matinee and evening shows each Saturday.
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Jodie Prenger played her final performance as Nancy on 27 March 2010, and was succeeded by fellow West End leading lady Kerry Ellis, who is best known for her role as Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked.
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Jodie Prenger reprised the role of Nancy once more, for two one-off performances on 13 November 2010, whilst Ellis was absent.
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Jodie Prenger played the role of The Lady of the Lake in the UK tour of the hit musical Spamalot, which began performances at New Wimbledon Theatre on 29 May 2010.
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In 2014, Jodie Prenger toured in the UK in the title role of Calamity Jane, starring opposite Tom Lister.
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In 2015, Jodie Prenger played Miss Hannigan in the UK tour of the musical Annie at Oxford's New Theatre.
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Jodie Prenger appeared in One Man, Two Guvnors at the Haymarket Theatre in London, alongside Owain Arthur who took over the role of Francis Henshall from Tony award-winning actor James Corden.
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Jodie Prenger played Elsie Tanner in the ill-fated Street of Dreams, the Coronation Street musical written by Trisha Ward.
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Jodie Prenger performed in the UK tour of one-woman show Tell Me on a Sunday in 2015 before taking on the title role in the UK tour of Shirley Valentine.
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From November until December 2016, Jodie Prenger played the role of Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables at the Dubai Opera.
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In 2019, Jodie Prenger toured the UK in Abigail's Party alongside Coronation Street's Vicky Binns.
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In 2021, Jodie Prenger played the part of Beryl in a live-streamed performance of Jonathan Harvey play Hushabye Mountain for the Hope Mill Theatre before reprising the role of Emma for a UK tour of Tell Me on a Sunday in what became one of the first productions to open in the UK as lockdown restrictions eased.
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In February 2023, it was announced that Prenger would be reprising the role of Miss Hannigan in a UK tour of Annie at selected venues, alternating with Paul O'Grady and Elaine C Smith.
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In July 2009, Jodie Prenger was a guest panellist on ITV's Loose Women.
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Jodie Prenger occasionally presented the midweek National Lottery draw on BBC One.
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In June 2011, Jodie Prenger appeared in an episode of Waterloo Road, playing PR woman Linda Wickes.
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In 2013, Jodie Prenger participated in Let's Dance for Comic Relief.
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Jodie Prenger was saved by the public, and as a result, made it through to the final on 9 March 2013 where she finished second place to Antony Cotton.
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Jodie Prenger has been a regular contributor on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and This Morning.
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Jodie Prenger frequently sits in for Paul O'Grady and Elaine Paige, when they are absent from their BBC Radio 2 shows.
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On 4 December 2011, Jodie Prenger appeared on the CBeebies show Justin's House.
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Jodie Prenger hosted the weekly 'Mishaps Podcast' with Emmerdale actress Natalie Anderson and Neil Hurst over the course of two series from 2018 until 2019.
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In 2022, Jodie Prenger joined the regular cast of ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street as cruise ship singer Glenda Shuttleworth, the sister of established character George Shuttleworth.
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On 23 February 2009, Jodie Prenger released her autobiography, It's a Fine Life.
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Jodie Prenger was engaged to her boyfriend, Steve Greengrass, who proposed to her after the Saturday show in week three of I'd Do Anything on 12 April 2008; a whirlwind romance which was featured throughout the series as their first date some three months earlier had been Jodie Prenger's audition in Manchester.