Nicki Chapman
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| Born | January 14, 1967 Herne Bay, Kent, England |
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| Occupation | Television Presenter |
Nicki Chapman (born 14 January 1967 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English television presenter who also works in the British pop music industry.
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[edit] Career
Chapman worked her way up in the music industry from being Promotions Assistant at MCA records at the age of 21. She later worked at RCA as Head of Promotions where she first met Simon Cowell. Up until the end of 2000 she was a joint partner in the Brilliant! PR company with Nick Godwyn [1] which represented, among others, the Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, Charlotte Church, Take That, David Bowie, Van Morrison, Billie Piper as well as the PR for the BRIT Awards and the Big Breakfast. Having met and worked with Simon Fuller in the nineties she joined his management company 19 Entertainment in January 2001 as Creative Director, working with acts including Annie Lennox, S Club 7, and Spice Girls.
Chapman rose to fame as a judge on the UK editions of the ITV television series Popstars and Pop Idol, together with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Dr Fox. Pop Idol was the top rated TV show in the UK for 2001 and 2003 making Chapman a household name.
She currently works as a presenter of a number of lifestyle and current affairs programmes for the BBC and ITV including Holiday (BBC 1), BBC Breakfast News, Holidays At Home (BBC 1), Sunday Style (BBC 2), Castles In The Country (BBC 2), Escape To The Sun (BBC 1), City Hospital (BBC 1), Holiday Ten Best (BBC 1) and others. In May 2006 she introduced the BBC's lunchtime coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show with Andy Sturgeon and Charlie Dimmock, and did so again in 2008 with Sturgeon and Chris Carter.
In 2006, Chapman was one of twelve celebrities in the BBC's Sport Relief showjumping programme Only Fools on Horses. Despite being a novice, and suffering a shoulder injury as a result of falling from her horse during one of the live broadcasts, she came second, voted by the public.
in May 2007 Nicki Chapman co-hosted the live ITV1 celebrity cookery show, Soapstar Superchef (the spin off of Soapstar Superstar).
[edit] Personal life
Chapman has one sister Shelley (teacher), and twin nephews Dougal and Christopher
She is married to Dave Shackleton (aka Shacky), Vice President of International Sony BMG. They first met in 1991, and he asked her out within two weeks - she turned him down, as she did for the next two years.
[edit] Trivia
- The first record she bought was Killer Queen by Queen
- Aged 21, Chapman applied for a promotions job in the music industry. The next day, she called and said "I need to know if you want me, I've been offered another job, but this is the one I really want." Needless to say, they hired her [2]
- She is addicted to sweets! Gives them up each year for Lent.
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