Sarah-Jane Crawford
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Sarah-Jane Crawford is an English
television & radio presenter
, and Voice-Over artist who presents on Channel 4
, E4, BBC Radio 1Xtra
MTV and Disney Channel
. On a weekly basis she provides the voice for the Official UK Top 40 chart on MTV
and the Official Urban Chart on MTV Base. She hosts a weekend show on BBC Radio 1Xtra
. It is live at 1pm-4pm, every Saturday and Sunday. Crawford also presents as a VJ on a weekly show called "The Music Alphabet" on MTV HD.
Crawford was born, and lives, in London
. She has written a column / blog for the MTV website called "Media Girl About Town".
. She graduated with a degree in Marketing
.
on Channel 4
but began presenting in 2007 when she hosted the Red Carpet and Back Stage show of the Vodafone Live Music Awards for The Hits
music video channel.
Crawford has interviewed the likes of Robert De Niro
, Usher
, Nicole Scherzinger
, The Pussycat Dolls, Natasha Bedingfield
, Will.i.am
, Colin Farrell
, Kate Hudson
, Ewan McGregor
, Jerry Seinfeld
, Sarah Jessica Parker
and Renée Zellweger
for Channel 4
.
On 25 July 2008, Crawford was the celebrity guest on eviction night for Big Brother's Big Mouth and for Big Brother's Little Brother, on 18 August 2008.
Crawford also hosts the television of the UK Singles Chart
, the top 40 part, but you can also watch the top 20 too! They are on channels such as MTV Hits and VIVA!
In August 2010 she began hosting a weekly show on MTV HD's channel called "The Music Alphabet" airing every Sunday at 3.30pm.
Crawford presented alongside Nigel Clarke as one of new hosts for Disney channel's show My Camp Rock 2, which premiered on 13 August 2010 at 5.35pm.
Crawford also does the voice over for some of the Max Factor
adverts such as Second Skin foundation, Lash Extension Effect mascara and Curve Effect lip gloss.
In September 2010, Sarah-Jane appeared as one of the celebrities, alongside Jonathan Ross and Ant and Dec, on the Nintendo
TV advert which was celebrating 25 years of Mario.
In April 2009, she began hosting her own show which was the early weekend breakfast slot from 7am on BBC 1Xtra
On January 8, 2011, Crawford began hosting the Saturday and Sunday slot from 1pm-4pm, upon which she launched BBC 1Xtra's very first Book Club
to a believed to be record crowd, for the festival, of 101,000.
and in the November 2008 issue of British Vogue as part of a photo shoot and article called Top Of The Box, alongside Lauren Laverne
and Fiona Bruce
.
The charity was founded by fashion designer Karen Millen
OBE.
Crawford also supports The National Autistic Society
, and in September 2008 took part in the adidas Women's Challenge to help raise funds for the charity, and the Fibromyalgia Association UK, which raises awareness about Fibromyalgia
in the UK.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
television & radio presenter
Presenter
A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...
, and Voice-Over artist who presents on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
, E4, BBC Radio 1Xtra
BBC Radio 1Xtra
BBC Radio 1Xtra is a digital radio station in the United Kingdom from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 18:00 on 16 August 2002, it had been codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1...
MTV and Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
. On a weekly basis she provides the voice for the Official UK Top 40 chart on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
and the Official Urban Chart on MTV Base. She hosts a weekend show on BBC Radio 1Xtra
BBC Radio 1Xtra
BBC Radio 1Xtra is a digital radio station in the United Kingdom from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 18:00 on 16 August 2002, it had been codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1...
. It is live at 1pm-4pm, every Saturday and Sunday. Crawford also presents as a VJ on a weekly show called "The Music Alphabet" on MTV HD.
Crawford was born, and lives, in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. She has written a column / blog for the MTV website called "Media Girl About Town".
Early life
Born in Lambeth, south London, Crawford went to schools at Bessemer Grange, Dulwich Hamlet and Sydenham Girl's School before moving up to Cambridgeshire for her remaining years of secondary school. Before becoming a television presenter Crawford went to Kingston University and Anglia Ruskin UniversityAnglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University is one of the largest universities in Eastern England, United Kingdom, with a total student population of around 30,000.-History:...
. She graduated with a degree in Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
.
Television
Crawford began her TV career on Shipwrecked 3Shipwrecked (TV series)
Shipwrecked is a British reality television programme airing on Channel 4's youth programming brand, T4. The original version ran for 3 series from 9 January 2000 to 20 December 2001 and was constructed as a social experiment, without a competitive format or a prize.The programme returned for 4...
on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
but began presenting in 2007 when she hosted the Red Carpet and Back Stage show of the Vodafone Live Music Awards for The Hits
The Hits
The Hits was a music video channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, owned by Box Television.-Overview and availability:The channel showcased a range of pop centering on chart hits and current favourites...
music video channel.
Crawford has interviewed the likes of Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
, Usher
Usher (entertainer)
Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...
, Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, model, and actress. Scherzinger is perhaps best known for being the lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls....
, The Pussycat Dolls, Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British pop singer and songwriter. Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle...
, Will.i.am
Will.i.am
William James Adams, Jr. , better known by his stage name will.i.am and occasionally by his other stage name Zuper Blahq, is an American rapper, musician, songwriter, singer, actor and producer...
, Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor, who has appeared in such film as Tigerland, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander and S.W.A.T....
, Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10...
, Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor. He has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. McGregor is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , and poet Christian in the...
, Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld , which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons,...
, Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television, and theater actress and producer.She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City , for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards...
and Renée Zellweger
Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...
for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
.
On 25 July 2008, Crawford was the celebrity guest on eviction night for Big Brother's Big Mouth and for Big Brother's Little Brother, on 18 August 2008.
Crawford also hosts the television of the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
, the top 40 part, but you can also watch the top 20 too! They are on channels such as MTV Hits and VIVA!
In August 2010 she began hosting a weekly show on MTV HD's channel called "The Music Alphabet" airing every Sunday at 3.30pm.
Crawford presented alongside Nigel Clarke as one of new hosts for Disney channel's show My Camp Rock 2, which premiered on 13 August 2010 at 5.35pm.
Crawford also does the voice over for some of the Max Factor
Max Factor
Max Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maksymilian Faktorowicz , Max Factor, a Polish-Jewish cosmetician. Max Factor & Company was a related, two-family, multi-generational international cosmetics company before its sale in 1973 for $500 million dollars...
adverts such as Second Skin foundation, Lash Extension Effect mascara and Curve Effect lip gloss.
In September 2010, Sarah-Jane appeared as one of the celebrities, alongside Jonathan Ross and Ant and Dec, on the Nintendo
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
TV advert which was celebrating 25 years of Mario.
Radio
In October 2008, Crawford began presenting on ad hoc shows as a cover DJ on BBC 1Xtra.In April 2009, she began hosting her own show which was the early weekend breakfast slot from 7am on BBC 1Xtra
On January 8, 2011, Crawford began hosting the Saturday and Sunday slot from 1pm-4pm, upon which she launched BBC 1Xtra's very first Book Club
Book club
A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to describe a book sales club, which can cause confusion...
Other presenting work
On 13 July 2008, she hosted London's free annual music festival, Rise, alongside the UK's beatboxing champion, BeardymanBeardyMan
Darren Foreman , better known as Beardyman, is a musician from London renowned for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping technology, and according to the BBC "King of Sound and Ruler of Beats".-Stage name and musical style:...
to a believed to be record crowd, for the festival, of 101,000.
Modelling career
Crawford appeared in the April 2008 issue of FHMFHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
and in the November 2008 issue of British Vogue as part of a photo shoot and article called Top Of The Box, alongside Lauren Laverne
Lauren Laverne
Lauren Cecilia Fisher , known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, television presenter, author and singer...
and Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow...
.
DJing
Crawford DJ's at various exclusive night clubs in London as well as for one-off events and private parties around Europe.Charities
In June 2008, Crawford became a patron for the Teens Unite Fighting Cancer charity which is dedicated to improving the lives of young people aged between 13-24 with life limiting illnesses. Of the charity she commented: "When I found out about the charity I just knew it was something that I wanted to be involved in. I think that it's fantastic that Teens Unite do, and will continue to, support young people from the ages of 13-24, a group that can easily be misunderstood, and are often grouped in with young children or much older adults which may not be appropriate for them. Teens Unite has seen a void and got to work on it, consequently taking care of young people's needs during their toughest times."The charity was founded by fashion designer Karen Millen
Karen Millen
Karen Millen is an Icelandic owned women’s designer clothing brand, specialising in tailoring, coats and eveningwear. Karen Millen stores are found throughout the United Kingdom, America, Austria, Denmark, the Republic of Ireland and many other European countries.-History:The company was founded in...
OBE.
Crawford also supports The National Autistic Society
National Autistic Society
The National Autistic Society is a British charity for people with autistic spectrum disorders , including autism and Asperger's Syndrome. The purpose of the organisation is primarily to improve of the lives of people with Autism in the United Kingdom.Founded in 1962 as the Autistic Children's Aid...
, and in September 2008 took part in the adidas Women's Challenge to help raise funds for the charity, and the Fibromyalgia Association UK, which raises awareness about Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a medical disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain and allodynia, a heightened and painful response to pressure. It is an example of a diagnosis of exclusion...
in the UK.
Filmography
- 4Music4Music4Music is a music and entertainment channel in the United Kingdom and available on some digital television providers in the Republic of Ireland - its web component can be found at with its own and pages. It is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and...
: Lovebox with Boost Juice Bars (2008) - E4 Music: (2007–2009)
- The Hits / 4Music: The Vodafone Live Music Awards (2007)
- MTV: The Official UK Top 40 (2009-2011)
- MTV: The Official UK Urban Chart (2009-)
- MTV NHD: "The Music Alphabet" (2010-)
- Disney Channel: "My Camp Rock 2" (2010-)
- MTV NHD: "EMAs 2010" (2010-)
- BBC3 (Talking Heads shows, 2009, 2010)
External links
- The Official UK Top 40 MTV Networks UK & Ireland