Angellica Bell
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Angellica Bell (born 24 March 1979) is a British television and radio presenter. She joined CBBC in May 2000, after receiving a BA Honours degree in Politics. Not only has she presented CBBC, she has also presented several of its shows, including That's Genius!, Xchange, 50/50 and Short Change. She also presented EastEnders Xtra. A cellist and pianist, she has also co-presented BBC Radio 3's Making Tracks programme for children.
She presented Holiday Hitsquad, the BBC travel programme formerly known as Departure Lounge. She has run the London Marathon and the Great North Run.
In 2005 she appeared as the Genie alongside Jeff Brazier in the pantomime Aladdin in Chatham.
On 30 November 2006, Bell announced she was leaving CBBC on 1 December 2006.
Since leaving the continuity links for CBBC, she has filmed in Senegal and Saint Lucia for a half-hour special for CBBC on the abolition of slavery, to be broadcast in March, 2007. She will also appear on a new programme for BBC1 called The Great British Village Show, with Alan Titchmarsh and James Martin, to be broadcast in the spring.
On January 26, 2007, it was confirmed by the BBC press office that Bell would appear in the celebrity Comic Relief does Fame Academy which was broadcast between March 3 and 16 March. She was voted off the show on 13 March in 6th place out of 13 after receiving the lowest number of votes between her and fellow contestant Colin Murray.
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- She has been gunged on Live & Kicking and The Saturday Show.
