Lauren Cecilia Fisher, known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, model, television presenter, author and singer.
32 Facts About Lauren Laverne
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Lauren Laverne was the lead singer and additional guitarist in the alternative rock band Kenickie.
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Lauren Laverne has written a published novel entitled Candypop: Candy and the Broken Biscuits.
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Lauren Laverne's father was one of nine and her mother was one of six.
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Lauren Laverne's father, Dr Leslie Gofton, was a sociology lecturer at Newcastle University, and her mother was a teacher.
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Lauren Laverne first attended St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School in 1982, where she befriended Marie Nixon, later to become a fellow Kenickie guitarist, and then St Anthony's Girls' Catholic School between 1989 and 1994, where she and Nixon met Emma Jackson.
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Lauren Laverne went on to study at City of Sunderland College from 1994 to 1996.
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Lauren Laverne was working on a solo album at this time, but this was permanently put on hold by the collapse of Deceptive Records.
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Lauren Laverne subsequently provided guest vocals on the Divine Comedy's 2004 single "Come Home Billy Bird".
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Lauren Laverne subsequently presented Planet Pop and Loves Like A Dog for Channel 4, Fanorama for E4, Party in the Park with Melanie Brown and Pop for Five and Orange Playlist for ITV, as well as reporting for RI:SE, leading the house band on Johnny Vaughan Tonight and appearing as an expert in a music special of BBC One's Test the Nation.
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Lauren Laverne presented a documentary for Sky One on the rise of popularity of the US hit TV Show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, called Buffy: Television With Bite.
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In 2000, Lauren Laverne provided the voice of Shinobu in the BBC's one-off dub of Urusei Yatsura.
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In 2003, Lauren Laverne was a regular team captain, along with Jason Byrne, on Elvis Has Left The Building a comedy music panel show hosted by Colin Murphy for BBC Northern Ireland.
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In July 2007, Lauren Laverne appeared on the satirical comedy show Mock the Week, and on Have I Got News for You on 14 December that same year.
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Lauren Laverne appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks on 10 January 2008, this time as a guest.
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In September 2008, Lauren Laverne appeared again on Mock the Week.
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Lauren Laverne presented the second series of the late-night Channel 4 music show Transmission with T-Mobile opposite Steve Jones.
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Lauren Laverne replaced radio DJ Jo Whiley on the talent show Orange Mobile Act Unsigned, which searches for the top unsigned acts in the country.
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Lauren Laverne became a regular presenter in the new "magazine" format third series of It's Not Easy Being Green, first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2009.
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Lauren Laverne narrates the animated series Tee and Mo about a little monkey and his monkey Mum, as shown on the CBeebies channel.
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In May 2022, the BBC announced that Lauren Laverne would be one of the guest presenters to take over Richard Osman's role on Pointless.
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Lauren Laverne became host of the XFM breakfast show on 31 October 2005 after Christian O'Connell moved to Virgin Radio, but left suddenly in April 2007 to pursue her television interests.
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However, Lauren Laverne went on to guest present on BBC Radio 2.
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Lauren Laverne joined BBC Radio 6 Music in June 2008 to present a Saturday weekend show before taking over the Monday to Friday morning slot from George Lamb in November 2009.
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In 2014, Lauren Laverne guest-edited Woman's Hour on Radio 4, and in 2015 began hosting Late Night Woman's Hour, a spinoff series.
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In September 2018, Lauren Laverne took over as host to Radio 4's Desert Island Discs when Kirsty Young took time off because of fibromyalgia treatment.
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In June 2020, Lauren Laverne helped to launch m4d Radio, an internet radio station designed for people with dementia and their carers.
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Lauren Laverne was a columnist for The Guardian from 2012 to 2014, writing about style and British culture.
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Lauren Laverne married the television producer and DJ Graeme Fisher in County Durham in August 2005; the couple live in Muswell Hill, London, and she has a flat in Sunderland.
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In late 1996, on a children's TV programme, Lauren Laverne referred to the Spice Girls as "Tory scum" for their support for the Conservatives.
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Lauren Laverne received an honorary fellowship from the University of Sunderland in July 2009.
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Lauren Laverne has been a vegetarian since the age of four.