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| Josie d'Arby | |
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| Born | 3 October 1972 Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Actress Presenter |
Josie d'Arby (born 3 October 1972) is a Welsh actress and television presenter from Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.
Biography [link]
d'Arby went to Lliswerry High School in her younger years then went on to attend the Anna Scher Theatre School, and later the London School of Journalism.
d'Arby began a presenting career while still a student of acting at RADA. In the early 1990s she presented on Children's BBC and then on SMart. She has since presented a number of high profile programmes including the Bigger Breakfast (a spinoff from The Big Breakfast) and Top of the Pops. Recently she has been a presenter on the daytime TV show, Loose Women, Just Up Your Street, a talent show on BBC Wales, and Inside Out West, a BBC regional programme in the West of England.
In 2003, she was a contestant in the first series of the Channel 4 reality TV show, The Games, where she came third and received a bronze medal. As a result of appearing on this, she later appeared on Back To Reality, where she came fifth. She appeared in The Games Champion of Champions, helping finalists from series 1 of The Games, to win this competition.
She has also worked in radio, as a co-presenter of The Steve Wright Show for BBC Radio 2.
d'Arby's first high-profile acting role was as WPC Jodie Finn, in the BBC drama, Merseybeat from 2002-2003. From February 2005, she starred as Pealy Maghti, one of the presenters of the BBC's spoof of 1980s science programming, Look Around You. d'Arby has appeared in the Channel Four sketch series Spoons, and has recently made guest appearances in dramas, such as Casualty.
d'Arby has also appeared on the stage.[citation needed] She has also performed as a singer under the name Sephine Collins.
In summer 2006, she was a celebrity showjumper in the BBC's Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses. In 2007 she featured in Channel 4's show "The Law of the Playground", where she talked about the humorous times at Liswerry.
She is a celebrity ambassador for the British Red Cross. She and Cerys Matthews hosted the Children in Need section for Wales. She was a regular guest on Sky1's Angela and Friends.
D'Arby was namechecked in the YouTube hit video by M.-J. Delany "Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind)" with the explanation: "Yes, it's strange, we didn't know either - Thank you Wikipedia." She appeared in the 2011 video for the song, along with several other Welsh celebrities, made for Comic Relief.
In 2011 d'Arby was one of eight celebrities learning Welsh for the S4C series, cariad@iaith:love4language.
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External links [link]
https://wn.com/Josie_d'Arby
Darby (name)
Darby (pronounced: DAHR-bee) is an English locational surname and has since become a given name. Its prefix derives from the Old Norse djúr ("deer"), and the suffix býr ("farm"/"settlement"). The oldest recorded surname dates to the period of 1160 - 1182 in Lincolnshire. Darby was a common pre-1800 alternative spelling of Derby, a city in England. People with the name or its variants include:
