Melissa Peachey
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Melissa "Mel" Peachey (born June 29, 1980 in London, England) is a British television personality, most notable for hosting PlayMania on GSN and Quiznation in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Early career
Born in London, she started out as an assistant for a London television network. Before getting her major break on television, she worked as an ad model, a voice-over artist and floor manager for the British gambling channel Avago and as an actress in NTL commercials.
[edit] Television hosting/presenting
Her most famous roles are of those as game show hosts (or presenters in England). Her first job as a presenter was for Spin 2 Win on Avago in April 2004. She left Avago in 2005 to be the presenter for Quiznation and other shows for the Optimistic Network.[1]
In April 2006, she left Quiznation to first job in the United States came as host of GSN's PlayMania, a show with a similar format to Quiznation. She shared hosting duties with Shandi Finnessey, and later Jessica York, until PlayMania broke off into two separate shows in February 2007. She switched on and off, hosting the two programs 100 Winners and quiznation (The United Kingdom program's United States namesake).
The April 7, 2007 episode of quiznation was Peachey's "goodbye show" and her last night as host, as she announced a week earlier that she was to return home to London. [2] She began hosting Quiznation and Pop the Q again in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2007. However, the programs were canceled by their respective networks by June 2007. She was a temporary presenter for ITV Play's Make Your Play, appearing in late June 2007.
Peachey was a presenter on the show Red Hot Roulette / Pitch Roulette, from September 10, 2007 until May 2008, when the show ceased using live presenters. This information is based on reports from various quiz-based message boards.
[edit] Other gigs
Mel has had other television duties, such as being a woman-on-the-street interviewer for a celebrity gossip channel or the co-host of a music video show.[3] She appeared in the 2005 independent film Thoughtful Geezer and had a walk-by role in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ PlayMania hosts information. Game Show Network. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
- ^ Peachey on the March 31, 2007 quiznation.
- ^ Melissa Peachey biography. RDF Management. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
- ^ Peachey on the March 23, 2007 episode of quiznation.
