Ed Petrie

Ed Petrie

Infobox Person


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name = Edward Oliver James Petrie
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birth_date = birth date and age|1978|8|22|df=yes
birth_place = Rustington, West Sussex
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occupation = Actor, Comedian, Television Presenter

Edward 'Ed' Oliver James Petrie (born 22 August 1978) is a British actor, comedian and television presenter. He was born, and grew up in, Rustington, and was educated at Ardingly College. He currently lives in Brockley.

On 3 September 2007, he became the chief continuity presenter for CBBC. Petrie and Oucho the Cactus (performed by Warrick Brownlow-Pike) present afternoon links for the CBBC Channel on weekdays, from 3:25pm to 7:00pm. He is currently on extended leave from continuity duties to record a new series for CBBC and is due to return to presentation links on 1st December .

Previous presenting work includes hosting various children's programmes, on Nickelodeon, from January 2005 until September 2007, including "Slime Across The UK" and "The Crunch". He also presented the CBBC game show "Wonderful World of Weird".

In 2002, Petrie was a researcher for the BBC programme, "They Think It's All Over" and, in 2005, was a comedy sketch writer for BBC Radio 1's "The Milk Run".

He was a finalist in both, "So You Think You're Funny?" and York's comedy festival, "National Talent Hunt" in 2003. The following year, Ed was a semi-finalist in the BBC's "New Comedy Awards".

Acting work has included appearances in the Channel 4 comedy programmes "Green Wing" and "Smack the Pony".

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/cbbcstars/book.shtml CBBC stars]
* [http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/e/277/ed_petrie Ed Petrie on Chortle]
* [http://www.edpetrie.com Ed Petrie's own website]


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