London Hughes

London Hughes
Born (1989-06-07) 7 June 1989
London, England
Medium Television
Nationality British
Years active 2010–present

London Hughes (born 7 June 1989), is an English comedian, television writer and presenter.[1] She also wrote and starred in Laughter Shock, a comedy for the BBC which piloted in 2010.[2]

Early life

London Hughes was born in Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey, England. When she was younger, Hughes spent most of her spare time working on new routines with a dance crew. Her family moved to Brighton when she was aged 14.[3]

The South London teenager began writing plays for talent shows at her college. She moved back to London to study television, media and cultural studies at Kingston University.

Career

London is an award-winning comedy writer-performer and presenter. Since winning the prestigious Funny Women Awards, she's gone on to pen and star in TV, including children's television, culminating in the latest series of CITV's weekend breakfast show, Scrambled! Recorded as live, Scrambled! is a mix of chat, games and comedy sketches with the presenters interlinking between shows in the CITV schedule.[4]

London has most recently launched her own YouTube comedy series No Filter, written by and starring herself, featuring many of the UK's rising comedy talent and based on London's real life experiences in friendship and dating.[5]

London has also starred in ITV2's Tinchy Stryder prank show pilot All About the Bants, Comedy Central's sitcom I Live With Models, Channel 4 sci-fi pilot Space Ark, BBC3 sketch show For The Win (of which she wrote a couple of sketches), BBC2 sitcom The Stephen K Amos Show and Endemol and Beyond's all female sketch show Sketch My Life for YouTube.[6]

London had her first feature film role in comedy It's A Lot, written and directed by Femi Oyeniran (Kidulthood and Adulthood) released nationwide in 2013. London improvised a lot of the comedy material for her scenes and choreographed the numerous dance routines used throughout the film.[7]

London made her BBC Radio4 debut by writing and starring in her own sitcom pilot named 28 Dates Later. Loosely based on her life, the sitcom was about two girls that work in a cinema with a love of romantic comedies, but can’t seem to make their own love lives match up to the ones in the movies. London has also featured in comedy entertainment show Life: An Idiots Guide and satirical sketch show Newsjack, again both for BBC Radio4.[8]

London started her television career presenting the morning show for CBBC for almost 2 years, in that time she also presented live links on BBC1 and BBC2 and made regular appearances on Blue Peter and snagged a presenter role in popular children's show, All over the Place alongside Ed Petrie as well as voicing characters for CBBC's comedy, Big Babies.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "BBC - Comedy - Funny Women Finals 2009 - Miss London". BBC Online. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  2. ↑ "Laughter Shock - BBC3 Sketch Show - British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide. British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  3. ↑ Rhoden-Paul, Andre. "Meet the up-and-coming TV presenter, actress and comedian from Peacehaven". The Argus. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "London Hughes « The British Blacklist". www.thebritishblacklist.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "London Hughes « The British Blacklist". www.thebritishblacklist.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "London Hughes « The British Blacklist". www.thebritishblacklist.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "London Hughes « The British Blacklist". www.thebritishblacklist.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "London Hughes « The British Blacklist". www.thebritishblacklist.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "London Hughes « The British Blacklist". www.thebritishblacklist.com. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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