Danielle Nicholls

Danielle Nicholls
Born	16 December 1978 (1978-12-16) (age 32) Salford, England
Known for	Television presenting
Spouse	Dean Holden

Danielle Nicholls (born 16 December 1978 in Salford) is a British television presenter, best known for her presenting of CITV from 1998 to 2001.

Personal life

In June 2006, she married Dean Holden,^[1] of Scottish Premier League side Falkirk F.C.. Dean is now at Chesterfield F.C.. Danielle and Dean live in Worsley and have three children.

Early life

Nicholls started dancing at the age of 9. At 15 she became the All England Modern Dance Champion, and had also passed two Royal Academy of Dance ballet exams with honours. She was then studying at Moorside High School. After finishing a two year course in Performing Arts at The Oldham College,^[2] at the age of 18, Nicholls became a member of Pure Gossip, and stayed with the group for a year.

Presenting

CITV

In May 1998, out of 900 applicants, she was chosen to present CITV (CiTV back then), which ran live, six days a week, and had an audience of four million viewers. Amongst the illustrious stars she interviewed on the show were: Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Victoria Beckham.^[1] Such was ITV's faith in Danielle, that they sent her to Australia to film a behind-the-scenes special on Home and Away. On 1 May 2000, Danielle took on one of her most challenging jobs and presented the live ITV Day Of Promise show with Eamonn Holmes and Carol Vorderman. In 2000 she also presented the live CITV game show Mad for It.

After more than three years as a presenter ever on CITV, Nicholls left in December 2001. She did have a brief return to children's TV as a presenter in the Saturday morning show Diggit. She continued as a presenter of three series of the hit Channel 5 celebrity karaoke show, Night Fever, until 2002. In 2003, Nicholls toured the country with Mark Speight in the Speight of the Art roadshow.

She was on the second series of Sooty Heights.

Sky Movies

In July 2002, Nicholls took over the continuity announcements for Sky Movies, she left in October 2003.

The Unprofessionals

In 2004, Nicholls presented another series, broadcast on Tyne Tees; The Unprofessionals where, along with a co-presenter, she was given different tasks to perform including pole dancing, a children's party entertainer, a drain unblocker and a taxidermist.

NTL Broadband UK

During Christmas 2004/5, Nicholls was a presenter on the NTL Broadband UK channel.

Text2Date

In 2006, Nicholls became one of the presenters of Text2Date, a programme which encourages participants to meet and date by using mobile phone text messages. The show is broadcast nightly from 2300 - 0200 on the Performance Channel on Sky Digital channel 271.

Guest appearances

Nicholls' enthusiasm and personality has led to numerous guest appearances on programmes, including: Trisha, The Last Word, This Morning, Bedrock, Boys & Girls, Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, Sport on 5, and Granada Soccer Night. She was also the voice behind the late night documentary series about North West nightlife called Party Fever which was shown on Granada.

Salford City Radio 94.4FM

Danielle currently presents a radio show on 94.4FM, Salford City Radio, every Friday at 13:00.

Acting

Nicholls took a brief absence from CITV in December 2000, when she took to the stage displaying her acting, singing and dancing talents, playing the leading role of Snow White at the Opera House in Manchester. The following years, she appeared as Snow White in the other successful pantomimes at Northampton, Sunderland, Southport and Weston-super-Mare, and in December 2005/January 2006, playing another leading role as Fairy Crystal in the Snow White pantomime at the Grand Opera House in York.

As well as the annual pantomime performances, in 2004 she also starred on stage in the Hammond Production Group's The Young Ones Summer Holiday in Worthing.

References and notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Jemma Walton (2006-10-24). "Living the dream... but is it all it's cracked up to be?". Peterborough Today. http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=4419&ArticleID=1838718. Retrieved 2007-02-04. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Famous students". The Oldham College. http://www.oldham.ac.uk/about/famous. Retrieved 2007-02-04. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Danielle Nicholls at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Nicholls, Danielle
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Date of birth	16 December 1978
Place of birth	Salford, England
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