Jayne Sharp is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 broadcaster who is a former host of Bingo Night Live

Bingo Night Live

Bingo Night Live was an interactive television programme featuring a free-to-play bingo game, broadcast in the United Kingdom on the ITV Network...

on ITV1

ITV1

ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...

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Early life

Sharp is from Durkar

Durkar

Durkar is a small village in the southwestern suburbs of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It is bordered by the parish of Crigglestone to the southwest and Kettlethorpe to the east. It is under the local administration of Crigglestone Parish Council with authoritative powers...

 in Wakefield

Wakefield

Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is and had a population of 76,886 in 2001....

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. Before presenting, Sharp went to the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside to study Media and Film, achieving a BA Hons degree. Her first job in TV was as a runner on Family Affairs

Family Affairs

Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...

, and she also worked in Durkar Fisheries, a fish and chip shop.

Presenting career

Sharp has previously hosted Dial-a-Date (ITV1), Live With Christian O'Connell (Five), Bad Lads Army (ITV2

ITV2

ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...

), 50 Years 50 Records (ITV1 and ITV2), Glory Ball Live (Challenge), (owned at the time by then boyfriend Chris Evans), Wudja Cudja

Wudja Cudja

Wudja Cudja was a UK-based gameshow hosted by Abbie Eastwood and Jayne Sharp, and was based on the dares-for-cash principle, similar to shows such as I Bet You Will and Indecent Proposals...

(ITV) and Little Monsters on Sky One

Sky One

Sky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...

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On a number of occasions throughout 2010, Sharp guest presented Live From Studio Five

Live from Studio Five

Live From Studio Five was an early evening, British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. The show was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. It consisted of interviews and discussing topical issues, with an emphasis on showbusiness...

, taking the place of Melinda Messenger

Melinda Messenger

Melinda Jayne Messenger is an English ex-glamour model, Page 3 Girl and a former presenter on the magazine programme Live from Studio Five. She is currently co-broadcaster of the reality show Cowboy Builders.-Biography:...

, Kate Walsh and Emma Willis

Emma Willis

Emma Willis is a British television presenter of such shows as Big Brother's Little Brother for its final series in 2010 and co-presenter of the now defunct Live From Studio Five the same year....

 whilst they were indisposed.

Writing

Sharp writes a column for What Woman Want, a monthly supplement for the Wakefield Express

Wakefield Express

The Wakefield Express is the newspaper serving the City of Wakefield district in West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1852 and was the subject of a centenary film produced by Lindsay Anderson in 1952...

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Personal life

Sharp has a daughter, Nicole Katherine Vitty (born 2 August 2007) by Comedy Dave. The couple married 23 August 2008. On 22 April 2011 it was announced they were getting divorced.

Sharp has also previously dated and lived with media mogul Chris Evans.

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