Sarah-Jane Crawford

Sarah-Jane Crawford
Born	Sarah-Jane Crawford 15 July 1985 (1985-07-15) (age 26)
Occupation	E4/Channel 4 TV presenter and Radio presenter/ DJ / Actress

Sarah-Jane Crawford (born 15 July 1985) is an English television & radio presenter, and Voice-Over artist who presents on Channel 4, E4, BBC Radio 1Xtra MTV and Disney Channel. On a weekly basis she provides the voice for the Official UK Top 40 chart on MTV and the Official Urban Chart on MTV Base. She hosts a weekend show on BBC Radio 1Xtra. It is live at 1pm-4pm, every Saturday and Sunday. Crawford also presents as a VJ on a weekly show called "The Music Alphabet" on MTV HD. Crawford was born, and lives, in London. She has written a column / blog for the MTV website called "Media Girl About Town".

Early life

Born in Lambeth, south London, Crawford went to schools at Bessemer Grange, Dulwich Hamlet and Sydenham Girl's School before moving up to Cambridgeshire for her remaining years of secondary school. Before becoming a television presenter Crawford went to Kingston University and Anglia Ruskin University. She graduated with a degree in Marketing.

Presenting career

Television

Crawford began her TV career on Shipwrecked 3 on Channel 4 but began presenting in 2007 when she hosted the Red Carpet and Back Stage show of the Vodafone Live Music Awards for The Hits music video channel.

Crawford has interviewed the likes of Robert De Niro, Usher, Nicole Scherzinger, The Pussycat Dolls, Natasha Bedingfield, Will.i.am, Colin Farrell, Kate Hudson, Ewan McGregor, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Jessica Parker and Renée Zellweger for Channel 4.

On 25 July 2008, Crawford was the celebrity guest on eviction night for Big Brother's Big Mouth and for Big Brother's Little Brother, on 18 August 2008.

Crawford also hosts the television of the UK Singles Chart, the top 40 part, but you can also watch the top 20 too! They are on channels such as MTV Hits and VIVA!

In August 2010 she began hosting a weekly show on MTV HD's channel called "The Music Alphabet" airing every Sunday at 3.30pm.

Crawford presented alongside Nigel Clarke as one of new hosts for Disney channel's show My Camp Rock 2, which premiered on 13 August 2010 at 5.35pm.

Crawford also does the voice over for some of the Max Factor adverts such as Second Skin foundation, Lash Extension Effect mascara and Curve Effect lip gloss.

In September 2010, Sarah-Jane appeared as one of the celebrities, alongside Jonathan Ross and Ant and Dec, on the Nintendo TV advert which was celebrating 25 years of Mario.

Radio

In October 2008, Crawford began presenting on ad hoc shows as a cover DJ on BBC 1Xtra.

In April 2009, she began hosting her own show which was the early weekend breakfast slot from 7am on BBC 1Xtra^[1]

On January 8, 2011, Crawford began hosting the Saturday and Sunday slot from 1pm-4pm, upon which she launched BBC 1Xtra's very first Book Club

Other presenting work

On 13 July 2008, she hosted London's free annual music festival, Rise, alongside the UK's beatboxing champion, Beardyman to a believed to be record crowd, for the festival, of 101,000.

Modelling career

Crawford appeared in the April 2008 issue of FHM and in the November 2008 issue of British Vogue as part of a photo shoot and article called Top Of The Box, alongside Lauren Laverne and Fiona Bruce.

DJing

Crawford DJ's at various exclusive night clubs in London as well as for one-off events and private parties around Europe.

Charities

In June 2008, Crawford became a patron for the Teens Unite Fighting Cancer charity which is dedicated to improving the lives of young people aged between 13-24 with life limiting illnesses. Of the charity she commented: "When I found out about the charity I just knew it was something that I wanted to be involved in. I think that it's fantastic that Teens Unite do, and will continue to, support young people from the ages of 13-24, a group that can easily be misunderstood, and are often grouped in with young children or much older adults which may not be appropriate for them. Teens Unite has seen a void and got to work on it, consequently taking care of young people's needs during their toughest times." The charity was founded by fashion designer Karen Millen OBE.

Crawford also supports The National Autistic Society, and in September 2008 took part in the adidas Women's Challenge to help raise funds for the charity, and the Fibromyalgia Association UK, which raises awareness about Fibromyalgia in the UK.

Filmography

• 4Music: Lovebox with Boost Juice Bars (2008)
• E4 Music: (2007–2009)
• The Hits / 4Music: The Vodafone Live Music Awards (2007)
• MTV: The Official UK Top 40 (2009-2011)
• MTV: The Official UK Urban Chart (2009-)
• MTV NHD: "The Music Alphabet" (2010-)
• Disney Channel: "My Camp Rock 2" (2010-)
• MTV NHD: "EMAs 2010" (2010-)
• BBC3 (Talking Heads shows, 2009, 2010)

References

1. ^ Sarah-Jane Crawford BBC 1Xtra

External links

• Sarah-Jane Crawford at the Internet Movie Database
• Sarah-Jane Crawford on Myspace
• Sarah-Jane Crawford at BBC Programmes
• The Official UK Top 40 MTV Networks UK & Ireland

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