Justin Fletcher

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Justin Fletcher (Born: June 15th, 1970) is a children's TV personality in the UK.

Justin Fletcher is a presenter and actor who appears on the BBC pre-school television channel CBeebies and performs a number of roles, both speaking and performing.

Justin is well known for appearing in Tikkabilla, Something Special as Mr Tumble and Higgledy House. He also provides the voice for characters within Tweenies (as Jake and Doodles), Boo! as Growling Tiger and Sleeping Bear, Finley the Fire Engine (Miguel) and Toddworld animation programme.

In Spring of 2006 Justin appeared on the CBeebies version of the BBC TV Programme 'Springwatch' where he presented alongside Jelly (from The Story Makers) and PC Plum (from Balamory) among others.

Justin can also occasionally been seen as a presenter on the CBeebies channel alongside the usual presenters.

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Justin is the voice narrator on the children's Train Ride at Animal Farm Country Park near Burnham-on-Sea, he appeared in Thomas the Tank Engine arena tour (as Harold), BBC Radio 4 and also pantomime. He has previously appeared in "Fun Song Factory" for ITV.

Justin owns a production company - Scrumptious House Ltd - that produces for children's television, video and theatre.

Justin also voices for the new CITV channel programme called Jim Jam and Sunny where he is the voice of both Jim Jam and Slim the cowardly giraffe.

Justin is the voice on the V-Tech Alphabet Desk.

3575 people signed a petition calling on the current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to give Justin an OBE.

The petition states: “Justin Fletcher is a communication genius. He both entertains and educates our children and does this with intelligence and panache without patronising. Programmes like Something Special can only help bridge the gap that sometimes sadly appears between able and not so able bodied people in our society and help banish the unkindness that disabled people sometimes face due to ignorance.”

The public were asked to vote on the Prime Minister's website, and the petition deadline passed on September 30, 2007.