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Kay Adams

Kaye's relaxed, professional and versatile presentation style has involved her in a wide variety of network programming for BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

2004 has seen her anchor the 8th series of Loose Women, ITV's ever popular daytime show and in many ways, Loose Women is a perfect fit for Kaye. It's live, topical, unpredictable and involves a considerable amount of 'make it up as you go along', all elements she thrives on. The format allows her to do what she does best… pulling the strings… and gives her sharp wit free rein. Her background though is a good deal more weighty.

Kaye started out as a graduate trainee at Central (Carlton) Television concentrating on political and news journalism. She chalked up her first major coup shortly after joining the company by securing an hour-long TV interview with Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister. For the next few years, Kaye remained focused on hard news but a chance opportunity to host a discussion show for Scottish Television set her off on a different path.

The show, Scottish Women, ran for six years, won a number of Awards and still ranks as one of the most successful STV has ever produced. It also marked the start of Kaye's career as a talk show host.

Since then, she has presented ITV Weekend Live (ITV network),three series of Central Weekend Live with Nicky Campbell and John Stapleton, 'Kaye', a network show for BBC2, Esther, also BBC2 network and Pride and Prejudice for BBC1 Scotland. Loose Women has been running since 1999.

As well as being a skilled ring-master, Kaye is recognized as a talented and perceptive one-to-one interviewer. She presented two series of It's Your Funeral for Channel Five conducting half-hour interviews with the likes of Germaine Greer, Brian Blessed and Sarah Mills. She has also guested as an interviewer for BBC1's Heaven and Earth.

Although Kaye enjoys the cut and thrust of live discussion and interview situations, she is equally comfortable in other TV formats. She hosted 104 episodes of The People Versus, produced by Celador for ITV and found it very enjoyable. She was a regular contributor to 4x4, BBC1's current affairs strand and has also managed to indulge her twin passions of design and motoring by presenting The Home Show and Wheelnuts for Scottish Television.

Recently, Kaye has been building up a portfolio of voice-over work and is currently recording commentaries for a twelve-part documentary series for BBC Scotland.

Off-screen, Kaye is very much demand on the corporate event circuit. In addition to chairing conferences Kaye is often booked as a keynote motivational/team-building speaker and has also developed a training programme aimed at senior executives to enhance presentation skills both in delivery and content.

She writes a weekly column for The Daily Record and is currently overseeing the production of a six part series which she pitched to Scottish Television as an original idea.

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George bowie

More people wake up with George Bowie than any other radio presenter!

George describes himself as witty, sexy, big-nosed and barking. The rest of the Clyde 1 team agree with 50% of the previous statement.

Listen to "Get Bowied at Breakfast" each weekday from 6.00 am till 10.00 am on Clyde 1 with george

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Dougie Jackson

Smooth Radio presenter and DJ

Dougie Jackson joined Radio Clyde at the tender age of 21 as a production assistant and spent the next five years working his way round “the business” stopping off first in commercial production and later music production where he engineered sessions for many successful Scottish bands like Del Amitri, Wet Wet Wet and Fairground Attraction.

At Clyde 1 FM Dougie presented the morning show and with this had the opportunity to travel extensively around the world interviewing the rich and famous. Dougie was awarded a Silver Sony Award for "The Pretenders Story", a Pemois Ondas World First for "Eurochart Paris" and a New York Radio Award for "Dougie in Disney" throughout this time.

From Clyde 1, Dougie then moved on to Scot FM in Edinburgh, first doing a two year stint on mid-mornings then a few months on breakfast before moving back to Glasgow to co-host breakfast for QFM and manage the radio station. He spent 18 months there before joining Real Radio in 2002 as morning presenter. He is currently working at Smooth FM.

Dougie has gained various television experience including audience warm-ups, voiceovers and production duties for shows such as: “Passport Quiz”, “Party Animals” and “Red Amber Green”. Dougie has also penned pop columns for the Sunday Mail and Glasgow Evening Times.

Corporate and Promotional clients also include: Guinness, Disney, Hilton and News International (to name but a few!) and various other local venues including shopping malls/Town Centre Christmas light switch-ons/Local Community Gala Days & Firework Displays and Hogmanay Street Gala Events.

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Sally Magnusson

Sally Magnusson is a journalist, broadcaster and writer. She presents a range of network programmes for the BBC, including the Royal Television Society award-winning daytime strand, Britain’s Secret Shame and the ever-popular Songs of Praise, as well as anchoring Scotland’s early evening news programme, Reporting Scotland, in Glasgow.

She is currently presenting a number of current affairs programmes for BBC Daytime, including Missing, based on the Lambeth Missing Persons Unit in London. She was born in Glasgow, studied English at Edinburgh University and began her journalistic career on The Scotsman, before joining the BBC’s news and current affairs department in London, where she presented Breakfast News for many years.

She is the author of several books, including the humorous “Family Life”, “Dreaming of Iceland: The Lure of a Family Legend” and “Glorious Things”, a collection of favourite hymns.

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Sally Gray

As a network TV Presenter for over 15 years, Sally Gray has an enviable list of credits to her name. From fronting lifestyle shows such as ITV’s “Moving Day” and “Our House”, BBC’s Real Rooms and “The Really Useful Show” to cutting her teeth as a ‘live’ roving reporter on GMTV, she is a truly versatile on-screen talent.

However, Sally’s most exciting and demanding role yet is in the landmark dating series “How to Find a Husband…and What to do if You Can’t” for UKStyle following her bold and genuine quest for love. The series gave Sally particular satisfaction as it was her original idea.

Sally thrives on being able to handle any situation that’s thrown her way and is always up for a challenge. “I’ve dated 50 men in 10 weeks, done 45 house moves in 6 months and dealt with 10,000 contestants whilst at the helm of “50/50”…I think being a TV presenter has got to be one of the most exciting jobs on the planet!”

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Sarah Heaney

As anchor of the daily news programme ‘Scotland Today’ since 1999 Sarah hashandled her share of breaking news stories and has conducted literally hundreds of live interviews with guests ranging from Politicians to Pop Stars.

In April 2004 Sarah’s profile moves up a notch to a National level as she fronts the first series of Crime Fighters UK for ITV Network. She is also the presenter of STV’s movie review series Moviejuice, which she has hosted since its inception in 2001 and which returns to our screens for a fourth series in spring 2004.

Sarah is always up for a bit of adventure and has been lucky enough to travel from Mauritius to Majorca to present competition and feature strands for GMTV & LK Today.

She has the authority and rigour to anchor the news but also the vivacity and sincerity to front live magazine and entertainment shows such as ‘Summer At The Top’ and ‘Room at the Top’. She is also a regular contributor on STV’s holiday show Scottish Passport’.

Sarah is in huge demand across the UK & Ireland as a Corporate host and has worked with clients such as ‘Scottish Enterprise’, ‘The Royal Bank of Scotland’ and the ‘Chamber of Commerce’. She has also completed corporate videos/presentations for clients like Epson and The Scottish Executive and is an accomplished voice over artiste.

Sarah is also a regular contributor on Radio shows across the country.

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Paul Coia

Paul’s suit and tie have been hosting conferences for fifteen years since, as a member of BBC’s Holiday ’87 team, he was invited to facilitate in Athens at the Thomas Cook world sales conference.

Currently Paul is working on formats for new programmes following the success of the quiz show The Enemy Within which he devised for BBC 1 and which has been piloted by Sony in America. It is shortly to be seen on BBC America.

He is the voice of Disney’s brand new satellite station, ABC1, and is a contributor to London’s LBC radio station and Glasgow’s Radio Clyde.

Paul has been travelling Europe hosting conferences for many companies in the medical, financial and IT sectors. He has taken part in videos, exhibitions, satellite links and product launches for blue chip companies around the world.

Paul has also fronted tailor made television shows for delegates, hosted award ceremonies, incentivising and motivational seminars, and much more. He hopes to be good at it one day!

The Scot runs his own communication and training company, Pow’r Communication, which teaches business leaders the art of Presentation and Media Handling and is currently helping QVC, Europe’s largest shopping television network, with presenter training.

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Fred MacAuley

Fred MacAulay (born 29 December 1956) is a Scottish comedian. He presents a daily BBC Scotland radio programme, and has appeared on numerous TV shows.

MacAulay's first experience of stand-up comedy came at Bar Point in the "West End" of Paisley. He enjoyed vocal support from some close friends as he appeared alongside the established Glasgow comedian Bruce Morton. From there, in 1988 he performed at Mayfest festival in Glasgow, which burgeoned into a semi-professional career, including jobs as a warm-up act for TV programmes including Have I Got News For You and for comedians Paul Merton and Rory Bremner.

His first on-screen appearance came on STV's stand-up programme The Funny Farm. Fred MacAulay became a full-time professional comedian in 1993.

Fred MacAulay has gone on to be a regular performer at the Edinburgh Fringe and at comedy festivals worldwide. He has presented BBC Radio Scotland's morning show since 1997, and for BBC TV he hosted one series of the talk show McCoist and MacAulay (with retired footballer Ally McCoist) and two seasons of Life According to Fred. He has appeared as a guest on comedy quiz programs They Think It's All Over, Just A Minute, QI, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Mock the Week and The News Quiz, and made a return to Have I Got News For You as an on-screen guest.

In 2001 he was elected the Rector of the University of Dundee.

In 2007, Fred competed in Comic Relief does Fame Academy and was the 7th student to be expelled.

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Heather Suttie

TV and radio and presenter Heather Suttie has in excess of 500 hours worth of live TV experience under her belt and her main passion – radio, of which she has more than 5000 hours of live experience.

Her radio experience covers Beat 106 where she hosted the Breakfast Show and at Xfm where she hosted the highly popular drive time slot for a number of years. Her areas of expertise are music, film, the environment and fashion.

Her TV presenting credits include the international programme ‘Scotland with Style, BBC 1’s Live & Kicking, ITV2’s Bedrock, Channel 4’s Moviewatch and BBC 2 children’s science programme Hyperlinks.

Interviewing is one of her strong points and has had the pleasure of working with Sir Paul McCartney, Kylie, Julia Roberts, The Arctic Monkeys and Robbie to name but a few. She’s also covered the European MTV Awards, BAFTAs, Brits, Mobos and more than a score of film premieres.

Heather has hosted BLINK TV’s festival coverage of T in the Park for the last 3 years and has visited every major festival in the UK working with music company Done & Dusted. She is also a showbiz columnist for The Sunday Post and writes a weekly guide to going out in The Evening Times. She also writes regularly for i-on Magazine, The Daily Record and Sunday Mail on travel, all things eco, fashion and music. A keen environmentalist, she has developed her own eco movement www.saynotoplastic.co.uk with the aim of ridding Scotland of plastic bags, bottles and excess food packaging.

Heather is also an Ambassador for The Princes Trust, works closely with The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice and annually supports Breast Cancer Care and Action for Children. Her hosting credits include The Evening Times Scotswoman of the Year Awards 2008, The Scottish Style Awards 2007, NCH Scotland Women of Influence lunch 2007, CIS Excellence Awards 2005-2008, The Herald Property Awards 2008, Property Executive Awards 2005-2007 and a wide range of corporate events.

Heather is also the voice of VUE Cinemas telephone booking service and regularly does voiceover work on radio for commercial clients. Her hobbies include socialising, walking her Weimeraner Charlee, reading, table tennis, vintage clothing, watching lots of films, going to gigs and not cooking.

She has recently been announced as the UK face of Froote, an eco jewellery company based in LA www.froote.com and a campaign will be shot in Scotland later this year.

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Gary Marshall

One of Scotland’s top radio presenters for more than 20 years, Gary Marshall is available for private and corporate events, gigs, parties and personal appearances across the country.

Gaz will even sing karaoke, if you can call it singing!

Fresh for 2010 the Gary Marshall digital local radio show across Scotland is on Monday to Friday on the afternoon drive 2- 6pm and Saturday breakfast 7- 10am on Westsound, Radio Clyde 2, Tay am, Forth 2, Northsound 2, Oban fm and on-line.

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