Dave Berry (presenter)

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Dave Berry (born 1978) is a British television presenter and former model from Charlton, south east London, England.

1 Career
2 Personal life
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

Berry began his career modelling for high profile brands such as Ted Baker, French Connection, Armani and Toni & Guy before moving into television presenting as a regular face on Nickelodeon UK and gaining a BAFTA nomination for n-List.^[1]

[edit] Television

In 2002, he became the main presenter of the signature MTV UK programme TRL UK, which aired for three years, ending in December 2005. Whilst at MTV, he also hosted coverage of the annual MTV Europe Music Awards.

From April 2005, he presented CD:UK on ITV1 when Cat Deeley left to present Stars in Their Eyes He was later replaced by Myleene Klass, Lauren Laverne and Johny Pitts in September 2005. Since then, he has worked on numerous projects for Channel 4, including Football Anthems, Home Made, I'm With The Band, Take Away My Takeaway and The Deadly Knowledge Show. In addition, Berry has hosted Channel 4 coverage of the music concerts Carling Live 24, Vodafone TBA and V Festival (2005 & 2006).^[2]

Other presenting work includes Only Fools on Horses on Three, for BBC Three, the documentary Sure Fans United for ITV1 The Brit Awards: Red Carpet/Party On for ITV2. Make Me A Supermodel (the live final), Pop City Live and Tsunami Aid were all broadcast on Five.

Berry has appeared as a guest on Annually Retentive, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Big Brother's Little Brother and Loose Women. He is a regular talking head on a number of celebrity based documentaries and has presented many Movie junket's.

[edit] Radio

He presented the Vodafone Live Hour on commercial radio networks and, since January 2007, has hosted his own show on London based Capital Radio on Saturday afternoons. Initially aired from 2-5pm, from 15 September, it moved to a later time of 4pm - 7pm. In January 2008, it was reported Berry would join XFM to present a show on Saturdays between 2pm and 6pm. It was then reported that Dave would take over XFM's Drivetime slot as XFM drop XU and Daytime DJ's Return, while current Drivetime host Rick Shaw moves to the mid-morning 9am to 1pm slot.

[edit] Mobile

Dave is also co-hosting The Hot Desk for ITV mobile - a music show for mobile phones.

[edit] Personal life

Berry has dated the Sugababes singer Heidi Range for a number of years. There were reports in the press of them being engaged, but these were denied by both Berry and Range,^{[citation needed]} although they did appear as contestants on the Gameshow All Star Mr. and Mrs. in May 2008.