1. Konnie Huq became the longest-serving female presenter of the British children's television programme Blue Peter, presenting it from 1997 to 2008.
48 Facts About Konnie Huq
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Konnie Huq has been a presenter and guest of shows including the 2010 series of The Xtra Factor on ITV2.
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Konnie Huq co-wrote the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" with her husband, Charlie Brooker.
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Konnie Huq published the follow-up, Cookie and the Most Annoying Girl in the World, in 2020 along with her third children's book, Fearless Fairy Tales.
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Kanak Asha Huq was born in the Hammersmith district of London on 17 July 1975, the daughter of Muslim parents who emigrated from Pabna, Bangladesh, in the 1960s.
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Konnie Huq grew up in the Ealing district of London with her two elder sisters, Nutun, and future Labour Party politician Rupa.
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Konnie Huq went on to study economics at Robinson College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2:1 degree.
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Konnie Huq appeared as an uncredited extra playing a schoolgirl in the BBC1 sitcom 2point4 Children in the Series 2 episode "I'm Going Slightly Mad".
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Konnie Huq's presenting debut, at the age of 16, was on the satellite television show, TVFM.
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Konnie Huq then appeared on a GMTV Saturday morning children's quiz show entitled Eat Your Words between 1994 and 1996.
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Konnie Huq was assisted by Mark Speight before Simon Parkin took over.
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Konnie Huq presented the BBC children's television programme Blue Peter, starting on 1 December 1997.
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On 31 May 2007, Konnie Huq announced she would be leaving Blue Peter.
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Konnie Huq is the third longest-serving Blue Peter presenter and its longest-serving female host, having passed Valerie Singleton's record on 1 October 2007.
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Konnie Huq holds the record for working with the most co-presenters while on the show, with a total of 10.
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Between 2002 and 2004, Konnie Huq co-presented the CBBC Channel's UK Top 40 chart show and in early 2003 she was briefly a presenter for Top of the Pops.
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Konnie Huq presented GMTV's LK today coverage of New York Fashion Week on the week of 10 September 2007.
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In December 2007, Konnie Huq appeared on a celebrity version of Ready Steady Cook with Blue Peter co-presenter Andy Akinwolere.
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Konnie Huq 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 the weekly Your News programmes for BBC News in 2008.
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Konnie Huq was the main presenter for the third series, in 2008, of Channel Five show Zoo Days, a documentary series about the animals and staff at Chester and Colchester Zoos.
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Konnie Huq presented The Red Bull Air Race with Dougie Anderson for Channel 4 in 2008.
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Konnie Huq appeared with her future husband Charlie Brooker in his satirical review programme Screenwipe in December 2008 on BBC Four.
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Konnie Huq hosted a mock version of a "mission documentary" entitled Konnie's Great British Wee.
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Konnie Huq presented Guinness World Records Smashed with Steve Jones on Sundays on Sky1 in 2009.
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On 15 May 2009, Konnie Huq began to present entertainment show Hannah-Oke on The Disney Channel with Duncan James.
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Konnie Huq presented the seventh series of The Xtra Factor on ITV2, replacing Holly Willoughby who was unable to fulfil the role due to her ongoing commitments at This Morning.
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In February 2011, Konnie Huq appeared in an episode of the ITV2 documentary programme Under Pressure, where she attempted to learn how to be a rapper.
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In May 2022 the BBC announced that Konnie Huq would be one of the guest presenters to take over Richard Osman's role on Pointless.
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On 15 September 2006, Konnie Huq became one of the presenters of The Tube with Tony Wilson, Alex James and Emily Rose on Channel 4 Radio working with production company UKoneFM.
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Konnie Huq made her debut as a news presenter on the BBC Asian Network in September 2007, in a series of documentaries on a radio current affairs programme called the Asian Network Report.
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Konnie Huq presented an episode of Archive on 4 in 2010, reviewing forty years of Sesame Street.
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Konnie Huq appeared as herself in The Kumars at No 42 in 2001.
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Konnie Huq played herself again in the FM episode "Golden Lady" in March 2009.
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Konnie Huq played a villainous servant in the last episode of the second series of Robin Hood.
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In 2013, Konnie Huq played a presenter of the fictional telethon "Help a Blameless Child" in television comedy series A Touch of Cloth.
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Konnie Huq co-wrote the second episode of the Channel 4 anthology series Black Mirror, "Fifteen Million Merits", which is a satire of entertainment shows, with her husband Charlie Brooker.
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On 14 October 2014, Konnie Huq was one of the speakers celebrating Ada Lovelace Day at the Royal Institution.
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On 29 June 2016, Konnie Huq hosted VOOM 2016, a pitch competition, for Virgin Media Business.
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In 2005, Konnie Huq took part in the BBC One fundraising show Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.
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Konnie Huq was the third contestant to be voted off, after her rendition of Kim Wilde's Kids in America.
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Konnie Huq travelled to Uganda and met orphaned children on behalf of Comic Relief.
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Konnie Huq administered polio vaccine to children as part of the trip.
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Konnie Huq was an ambassador for Gold Challenge, part of the official mass participation legacy programme for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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On 26 July 2010, Konnie Huq married writer and satirist Charlie Brooker at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas after a nine-month relationship.
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Konnie Huq has said she reduced her television commitments so that she could focus on her children.
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Konnie Huq supported the Labour Party at the 2010 general election.
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On 6 April 2008, Konnie Huq participated in the London leg of the Summer Olympics torch relay as one of 80 torch carriers on the torch's journey to Beijing.
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Konnie Huq was not hurt in the incident, though police wrestled the protester to the ground and arrested him.