Annabel Port

Infobox Person
name = Annabel Port


image_size = 180px
caption = Annabel Port
birth_date = birth date and age|1975|3|12|df=y
birth_place = Southend-on-Sea, England
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death_place =
known_for = Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
occupation = Radio Presenter
Employer = Absolute Radio
website = [http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/djs_shows/shows/geoff/annabel.html Absolute Radio Website Link]

Annabel Port (born 12 March 1975, Southend-on-Sea) is a British radio presenter who currently acts as a side kick and deputy producer to Nelson Kumah on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, broadcast from Monday to Friday on Absolute Radio from 5 pm to 8 pm. She is known for her witty sense of humour and eccentric behaviour. She previously worked on The Geoff Show and read the travel reports on the Pete And Geoff Breakfast Show which she hosted along with Lloyd and Pete Mitchell before the latter's departure in December 2005.

Education

Annabel was educated at Westcliff High School for Girls, and the now Oxford Brookes University

Career

Prior to working in radio, she taught English to Poles and Mexicans for three years, spent six months doing data input, one week cleaning an old people's home and to her knowledge holds the national record for the 6 years she held a paper round (until the unusually mature age of 18). Annabel is a former presenter of Whipps Cross Hospital Radio.fact|date=May 2007

In January 2001 she came to Virgin Radio on a work experience placement and was spotted by Lloyd. Since then she has auditioned to be Michael Hutchence's replacement in INXS and has been to circus school. In a show broadcast on 9 September 2005, Sir Paul McCartney assisted her in completing a song about beef tomatoes [ [http://www.beatlessweden.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=554 Sweden Beatles News] ] .

Annabel at Absolute Radio

Annabel has worked on 'The Geoff Show' since its inception in January 2006 and has devised and presented a number of radio features, including "Porting Controversy", as well as a velvety broadcast voice on the infamous "Dirty Book At Bedtime" [ [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-995893243268116390 A Google video of "Dirty Book At Bedtime"] ] . In January 2007, Annabel became the Head of Showbusiness on The Geoff Show, and is still a prominent and notable member of the Virgin Radio team and Geoff Show symposium.

Before 'The Geoff Show', Annabel also presented features on the Virgin Radio Breakfast Show, which included "Annabel's Animals" where Geoff was asked to guess the identity of animals brought to the studio by local zoos. A more regular feature was "Annabel's Friday Song". This is where the aforementioned tomato song with Sir Paul McCartney was aired. This feature is now occasionally resurrected on 'The Geoff Show' when the show does a podcast only show, albeit a "bawdy" song not fit for broadcast on UK radio.

"Annabel's Friday Song" was usually a short, comical song introducing the coming weekend, with varying topical verses played live by Annabel. The song was introduced as coming "From the golden throat of miss Annabel Port".

"Chorus"
Oh what does it mean when the pubs are all packed at five-thirty?
Oh what does it mean when we're all having fish for our tea?
Oh what does it mean when top of the pops is on the telly?
Oh yes, the weekend's nearly here;
So sing along with meeee-ee hee hee...

On September 29, Annabel moved along with the rest of the team to Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show.

References

*cite news |title= Mirror Works: Port with stilts on; HOW ANNABEL BECAME A RADIO STUNT QUEEN. |url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-110333878.html |publisher= Daily Mirror | first= Sheila|last=Prophet |date= 2003-11-20

External links

* [http://www.virginradio.co.uk/ Virgin Radio]
* [http://www.virginradio.co.uk/djs_shows/shows/geoff/annabel.html#biog Annabel's Virgin Radio biography]