Magenta Devine

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Magenta Devine
Born	Kim Taylor 4 November 1957 (1957-11-04) (age 54) England
Occupation	Television presenter
Ethnicity	English
Notable credit(s)	Rough Guide, Reportages, Young, Gifted and Broke

Magenta Devine (born 4 November 1957; real name Kim Taylor) is a TV presenter and journalist. She is perhaps most known for presenting the youth travel programme, Rough Guide and "Reportage" on BBC2 in the 1990s. Then "Young, Gifted and Broke" for ITV.

She began her career working for Queen/Thin Lizzy/Whitesnake publicist, the late Tony Brainsby. While still living with boyfriend Tony James, she became the music promoter for James' new band, Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Following their breakup, Janet Street-Porter tapped Devine, a statuesque upper-class "punk", to be a presenter on Channel 4 youth programme Network 7, before switching channels to present DEF II on BBC2, of which Rough Guide was a feature, before becoming a separate programme in its own right. Before all of these, she cut her teeth as one of the presenters of BBC Wales' pop music show, Richard & Judy and in 2005 she appeared on Extreme Celebrity Detox. She has also done voice-over work, including a dfs advert and writes for the Guardian and the Mail on Sunday. She presented the film programme "On Screen" for World Service.

Devine today^[when?] also assists Trading Standards in the travel market and supports various charities, as well as speaking at events.

External links

• Magenta Devine at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Devine, Magenta
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Date of birth	4 November 1957
Place of birth	England
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