Carrie Nicole Prideaux (born 24 June 1976 in Barnstaple

Barnstaple

Barnstaple is a town and civil parish in the local government district of North Devon in the county of Devon, England, UK. It lies west southwest of Bristol, north of Plymouth and northwest of the county town of Exeter. The old spelling Barnstable is now obsolete.It is the main town of the...

, England

England

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) is a current sportsreader on the BBC News Channel, best known for reading the Sport on The Chris Moyles Show

The Chris Moyles Show

The Chris Moyles Show is the current BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK, and has been since Chris Moyles became the station's breakfast show presenter on 5 January 2004. From 2004 to 2007, the show was broadcast 6:55–10:00 am each weekday, but since 15 October 2007 it has started from...

 on BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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.

Biography

Prideaux attended school at Queen's College, Taunton

Queen's College, Taunton

Queen's College is a co-educational independent school located in Taunton, the county town of Somerset, England. It is a day/boarding school for children aged 2–18. The school incorporates Nursery, Pre-Prep, Junior and Senior schools. The current headmaster of the Senior School is Chris Alcock...

, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

 where she obtained 3 A-levels. She began sports reporting for BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries...

 and BBC News 24 before making her way to Radio One working within the Newsbeat team.
Carrie joined the show in October 2004, replacing Juliette Ferrington who moved on to work solely for BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries...

.

Prideaux reports regularly for BBC London sports news and occasionally for Match of the Day 2

Match of the Day 2

Match of the Day 2 is a football highlights programme shown on BBC Two in the United Kingdom...

. She can sometimes be heard match reporting on the BBC's football results programme Score

Final Score

Final Score is a BBC TV programme produced by BBC Sport. The programme is broadcast on late Saturday afternoons in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, usually on BBC ONE. BBC Northern Ireland opts away during the last ten minutes to cover local results, BBC Scotland runs a different programme...

. She also narrates for the National Geographic show What Would Happen If.

Personal life

Carrie married Tom Prideaux, a Major with the Queen's Royal Lancers, on 3 May 2008. Tom Prideaux was often the butt of jokes on the The Chris Moyles Show, and referred to by Moyles and Comedy Dave as "Captain Underpants" and fittingly, "Major Tom

Major Tom

Major Tom is a fictional astronaut created by David Bowie, heard in his songs "Space Oddity," "Ashes to Ashes," and "Hallo Spaceboy." Bowie's own interpretation of the character evolved throughout his career. 1969's "Space Oddity" depicts an astronaut who casually slips the bonds of a crass and...

".

On 29 October 2009, she announced live on The Chris Moyles Show that she was pregnant and due to give birth to a baby girl in March. On 25 November 2009, Carrie mentioned on Twitter

Twitter

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 that she had ripped her skinny jeans trying to get out of the car. Moyles then posted a picture of the rip (just below her bottom

Buttocks

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) on Twitter, which was viewed 70,000 times in 8 hours making it one of the most viewed images on the site.

Prideaux is a patron for the Veteran Horse Welfare charity, a charity dedicated to the welfare of older horses and ponies. She is a Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...

 supporter.

Carrie's final show was on 12 February 2010 when she left the station to go on maternity leave. On 29 March 2010 it was reported live on the Chris Moyles show that Carrie had given birth to a baby girl named Poppy. Poppy was born at 15:47 on 28 March 2010 weighing 6 lb 10oz.

She can currently be seen reading the sport on the BBC News Channel.