Jez Edwards

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Jez Edwards is a British television presenter.

Edwards, who grew up in Knutsford, Cheshire, got the broadcasting bug whilst he was at school when he researched and conducted interviews for Piccadilly Radio’s Saturday Express, which was followed by a regular slot on hospital radio.

His first major TV work was as one of the main presenters on ITV’s live children’s magazine programme Sticky, and in his time at CITV he was nominated for Best Presenter in the CITV Awards. Previous television work includes: Planet Pop on Channel 4’s T4, BBC One’s Sunday morning programme Football Fever, K Club for BBC Knowledge, The Phonezone for UK Play, two series of ITV's chaotic gameshow Crazy Cottage and the live summer Saturday morning programme Mashed. He also fronted the kids show for fitness freaks, Freestyle and has presented Exclusive, Channel Five's weekly entertainment news programme, as well as four series of BBC One’s popular Record Breakers. Between 2002 and 2006, he was a presenter on the live daily children's television magazine show Xchange, transmitted on the CBBC Channel. In 2006 he was the main presenter of The World Cup Show, a Eurosport program which was broadcast live twice a day, everyday in 53 countries, dealing with the Football World Cup in Germany.

On stage Jez is also a pantomime regular. Stevenage saw him tread the boards in his fourth pantomime playing Muddles in Snow White. He has twice played Buttons in Cinderella, (Torquay and Gravesend), Simple Simon in Jack and the Beanstalk (York) and Idle Jack in Dick Whittington at The Playhouse in Weston-super-Mare in 2006.