Annabel Port

Annabel Port (born 12 March 1975, Southend-on-Sea) is a Sony Award-winning British radio presenter. She is currently an on-air contributor to Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show on Absolute Radio. Previously she has worked on The Geoff Show and read travel reports on the Pete and Geoff Breakfast Show which she hosted along with Lloyd and Pete Mitchell before the latter's departure in December 2005.

Education

Annabel Port was educated at Westcliff High School for Girls and Oxford Brookes University.

Career

Prior to working in radio, she taught English to Poles and Mexicans for three years, spent six months doing data input, one week cleaning an old people's home and to her knowledge holds the national record for the 6 years she held a paper round (until the unusually mature age of 18). Port is a former presenter of Whipps Cross Hospital Radio.

Virgin Radio

On 14 January 2001 she came to Virgin Radio on a work experience placement and was spotted by Lloyd. Since then she has auditioned to be Michael Hutchence's replacement in INXS and has been to circus school. In a show broadcast on 9 September 2005, Sir Paul McCartney assisted her in completing a song about beef tomatoes.