Dermot O'Leary

Dermot has to be one of my favourite Television presenters, hes funny, hes entertaining, he makes TV worth watching.

Biography   :   Name: Sean Dermot Finton O'Leary

Date of Birth: 24 May 1973   Place of Birth: Colchester

Currently Lives: Kensal Rise, North West London

Marital Status: Single

Education: BA in Media and Television with a minor in Politics at Middlesex University

Career:

Started out as a DJ on BBC Radio Essex. He then worked as a TV runner before going on to do the warm-up for Channel 4's Light Lunch. He then moved into presenting:

• Fully Booked (BBC)
• Buzz (Channel 4)
• No Balls Allowed (Channel 4 with Margherita Taylor)
• Inside Rugby (Channel 4 with Thierry Lacroix)
• The Bigger Breakfast (Channel 4 with Josie D'Arby)
• T4 (Channel 4, for 2.5 years from when it started until July 2001)
• The Barfly Sessions (Channel 4)
• The Dogs Balearics (Channel 4 with Jayne Middlemiss)
• SMTV Live (guest presenter with Louise Redknapp 15th December 2001)
• SAS: Are you tough enough? (BBC, March 2002)
• RE:COVERED (BBC Choice and BBC Three, May 2002)
• Dermot's Sporting Buddies (BBC Choice, October-December 2002)
• SAS Jungle: Are you tough enough? (BBC Two, February 2003)
• Born to Win (BBC One)
• Shattered (Channel4 and E4, January 2004)
• SAS Desert: Are you tough enough? (BBC Two, February 2004)
• Dermot's Saturday Club (Radio 2 from September 2004)
• Generation Jedi (BBC Three, May 2005)
• Morning Glory (Channel 4 January 2006)
• The Dermot O'Leary Show (Radio 2 from September 2005)
• Big Brother's Big Brain (Channel 4 and E4 May 2006)
• Big Brother's Little Brother (Channel 4/E4 from May 2000, during Big Brother and celebrity Big Brother for the last 6 years), became Big Brother's Little Breakfast during celebrity Big Brother 2005