Danielle Nicholls
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| Danielle Nicholls | |
 Danielle Nicholls on CITV circa 2000. |
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| Born | December 16, 1978 (age 28) Salford, Greater Manchester  England |
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| Known for | Television presenting |
| Spouse | Dean Holden |
| Website | Danielle's Official Website |
Danielle Nicholls (born 16 December 1978 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is a British television presenter most famous for her presenting of CITV from 1998 to 2001 and many other presenting roles.
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[edit] Early life
Nicholls started dancing at the age of 9. At 15 she became the All England Modern Dance Champion, and had also passed two Royal Academy of Dance ballet exams with honours. After finishing a two year course in Performing Arts at The Oldham College[1], at the age of 18, Nicholls became a member of Pure Gossip, and stayed with the group for a year.
[edit] Presenting
[edit] CITV
In May 1998, out of 900 applicants, she was chosen to present CITV (Children's ITV), which ran live, six days a week, and had an audience of four million viewers. Amongst the illustrious stars she interviewed on the show were: Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Victoria Beckham. [2] Such was ITV's faith in Danielle, that they sent her to Australia to film a behind-the-scenes special on Home and Away. On 1st May, 2000, Danielle took on one of her most challenging jobs and presented the live ITV Day Of Promise show with Eamonn Holmes and Carol Vorderman. In 2000 she also presented the live CITV game show Mad For It.
After more than three successful years as one of the most popular presenters ever on CITV, Nicholls left in December 2001. She did have a brief return to children's TV as a presenter in the Saturday morning show Diggit. She continued as a presenter of three series of the hit Channel 5 celebrity karaoke show, Night Fever, until 2002. In 2003, Nicholls toured the country with Mark Speight in the Speight of the Art roadshow.
[edit] Sky Movies
In July 2002, Nicholls took over the continuity announcements for Sky Movies, she left in October 2003.
[edit] The Unprofessionals
In 2004, Nicholls presented another series, broadcast in the Tyne Tees region of ITV; The Unprofessionals where, along with a co-presenter, she was given different tasks to perform including pole dancing, a children's party entertainer, a drain unblocker and a taxidermist.
[edit] NTL Broadband UK
During Christmas 2004/5, Nicholls was a presenter on the NTL Broadband UK channel.
[edit] Text2Date
In 2006, Nicholls became one of the presenters of Text2Date, a programme which encourages participants to meet and date by using mobile phone text messages. The show is broadcast nightly from 2300 - 0200 on the Performance Channel on Sky Digital channel 271.
[edit] Guest Appearances
Nicholls enthusiasm and personality has led to numerous guest appearances on programmes, including: Trisha, The Last Word, This Morning, Bedrock, Boys & Girls, Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, Sport on 5, and Granada Soccer Night. She was also the voice behind the late night documentary series about North West nightlife called Party Fever on ITV in the Granada region.
[edit] Acting
Nicholls took a brief absence from CITV in December 2000, when she took to the stage displaying her acting, singing and dancing talents, playing the leading role of Snow White at the Opera House in Manchester. The following years, she appeared as Snow White in the other successful pantomimes at Northampton, Sunderland, Southport and Weston-super-Mare, and in December 2005/January 2006, playing another leading role as Fairy Crystal in the Snow White pantomime at the Grand Opera House in York.
As well as the annual pantomime performances, in 2004 she also starred on stage in the Hammond Production Group's The Young Ones Summer Holiday in Worthing.
In 2005 she featured as a dancer in the British feature film, Splinter.
[edit] Other work
In 2005 Danielle was one of the ambassadors of the UK Postcode Lottery based in the north east of England.
[edit] Personal life
In June 2006, she married Dean Holden [2], captain of Peterborough United football club. On Nicholls Yahoo! group page it was announced that she and Dean are expecting their first child.
[edit] References and notes
- ^ Famous students. The Oldham College. Retrieved on February 4, 2007.
- ^ a b Jemma Walton (2006-10-24). Living the dream... but is it all it's cracked up to be?. Peterborough Today. Retrieved on February 4, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Danielle's Official Website has a biography, news section and some exclusive photos.
- Unprofessionals website Includes many pictures and screen caps of Danielle.
