Biography

Gemma Cairney is an exciting, stylish and unique presenter whose infectious personality makes her one of a kind.

Gemma currently presents the afternoon show on BBC Radio 1Xtra (weekdays 1pm-4pm), which focuses on fashion, entertainment and celebrity and will be moving to weekend breakfast on BBC Radio 1 from Saturday 7th April (every Saturday & Sunday 7-10am).

Gemma is currently filming a documentary for BBC3, which is due to air later this year, and Gemma was also recently a panellist on the new BBC3 debate show, ‘Free Speech’, discussing issues such as benefits, body image and road safety for cyclists!

She has also been the official roving reporter at Glastonbury Festival for BBC3, for three consecutive years. Prior to her own radio show, she presented BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Breakfast Show with Trevor Nelson, for which they picked up a Silver Sony award in 2010 for Best National Breakfast Show.

Gemma is also a guest presenter for the BBC Radio 1 Surgery alongside Aled, and is the official Radio 1 fashion expert, dishing out fashion advice to listeners.

In 2010, Gemma presented a one-hour TV special for Channel 4, covering the Snowbombing Festival in Austria and has presented two series of the T4 Show, Frock Me alongside Alexa Chung and Henry Holland. Gemma was the roving reporter for the BBC3 Coverage of 1Xtra Live and finished 2010 with a trip to Australia where she was a panelist on the show ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Now!’ for ITV2.

Gemma is now a website columnist for Company Magazine and also featured in the magazine’s one’s to watch for 2009. She also made the top 100 hot list in Red Pages, the online media bible for the TV and Casting world.

Having styled the BRIT nominated artist, Florence and The Machine and working on a special fashion project with singer VV Brown, she certainly knows what to wear! Since the age of twenty, Gemma has been juggling various styling work, she can also include the names of Kate Nash and Pigeon Detectives in her own styling portfolio and in the past has taken the role of assistant stylist to some of the biggest acts in the country like the Sugababes.

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