Danielle Nicholls
Danielle Nicholls on CITV circa 2000.
Born	December 16, 1978 (age 28) Salford, Greater Manchester  England
Known for	Television presenting
Spouse	Dean Holden
Website	Danielle's Official Website

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Early life

Nicholls started dancing at the age of 9. At 15 she became the All England Modern Dance Champion, and had also passed two Royal Academy of Dance ballet exams with honours. After finishing a two year course in Performing Arts at The Oldham College^[1], at the age of 18, Nicholls became a member of Pure Gossip, and stayed with the group for a year. For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) was established in 1920 by a group of professional dance artists brought together by Philip Richardson, editor of the Dancing Times and including: Adeline Genée - Denmark Tamara Karsavina - Russia Lucia Cormani - Italy Edouard Espinosa - France Phyllis Bedells - England Representing the principal dance training... The Oldham College, is a government funded further education college in the town centre of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. ...

Presenting

CITV

In May 1998, out of 900 applicants, she was chosen to present CITV (Children's ITV), which ran live, six days a week, and had an audience of four million viewers. Amongst the illustrious stars she interviewed on the show were: Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Victoria Beckham. ^[2] Such was ITV's faith in Danielle, that they sent her to Australia to film a behind-the-scenes special on Home and Away. On 1st May, 2000, Danielle took on one of her most challenging jobs and presented the live ITV Day Of Promise show with Eamonn Holmes and Carol Vorderman. In 2000 she also presented the live CITV game show Mad For It. CITV Logo CITV (short for Childrens ITV or Childrens Independent Television) is the brand name used for the majority of childrens television output on the British Channel 3 television stations, including ITV1, breakfast broadcaster GMTV and the ITV plc-owned CITV Channel as well as non ITV... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter. ... Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning American pop/R&B singer, and actor. ... Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams) was born on the 17th April, 1974. ... It has been suggested that Channel 3 (UK) be merged into this article or section. ... Home and Away (commonly abbreviated to H&A) is an Australian weeknightly half-hour television soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by Seven Network since July 1987. ...

After more than three successful years as one of the most popular presenters ever on CITV, Nicholls left in December 2001. She did have a brief return to children's TV as a presenter in the Saturday morning show Diggit. She continued as a presenter of three series of the hit Channel 5 celebrity karaoke show, Night Fever, until 2002. In 2003, Nicholls toured the country with Mark Speight in the Speight of the Art roadshow. CITV Logo CITV (short for Childrens ITV or Childrens Independent Television) is the brand name used for the majority of childrens television output on the British Channel 3 television stations, including ITV1, breakfast broadcaster GMTV and the ITV plc-owned CITV Channel as well as non ITV... Digg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Five (often referred as five, as per the logo), formerly, and more commonly known as Channel 5, is the British fifth and final national analogue terrestrial TV channel. ... This article or section is incomplete and may require expansion and/or cleanup. ...

Sky Movies

In July 2002, Nicholls took over the continuity announcements for Sky Movies, she left in October 2003. Continuity is a term used in broadcasting, especially in the United Kingdom, to refer to announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes. ... Sky Movies is the collective name for the British premium subscription television movie channels operated by Sky Television, later British Sky Broadcasting. ...

The Unprofessionals

In 2004, Nicholls presented another series, broadcast in the Tyne Tees region of ITV; The Unprofessionals where, along with a co-presenter, she was given different tasks to perform including pole dancing, a children's party entertainer, a drain unblocker and a taxidermist. Tyne Tees Television is the ITV television contractor for North East England. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A taxidermied snow leopard. ...

NTL Broadband UK

During Christmas 2004/5, Nicholls was a presenter on the NTL Broadband UK channel. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Virgin Media, Telewest and Virgin. ...

Text2Date

In 2006, Nicholls became one of the presenters of Text2Date, a programme which encourages participants to meet and date by using mobile phone text messages. The show is broadcast nightly from 2300 - 0200 on the Performance Channel on Sky Digital channel 271. Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ...

Guest Appearances

Nicholls enthusiasm and personality has led to numerous guest appearances on programmes, including: Trisha, The Last Word, This Morning, Bedrock, Boys & Girls, Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, Sport on 5, and Granada Soccer Night. She was also the voice behind the late night documentary series about North West nightlife called Party Fever on ITV in the Granada region. Trisha is a British chat show previously aired on ITV1 in the mornings. ... This Morning logo (ITV1) This Morning is a British, ITV1 daytime television programme that started on 3 October 1988 and includes celebrity guests, entertainment, advice, competitions and features. ... Dick (left) and Dom (right) Dick and Dom in da Bungalow was an Award winning CBBC childrens television series presented by Richard McCourt (Dick) and Dominic Wood (Dom). In the final series, Series 5, five children and one celebrity guest (known as Bungalow Heads) came to stay the weekend... Granada – Greek: (Steph. ...

Acting

Nicholls took a brief absence from CITV in December 2000, when she took to the stage displaying her acting, singing and dancing talents, playing the leading role of Snow White at the Opera House in Manchester. The following years, she appeared as Snow White in the other successful pantomimes at Northampton, Sunderland, Southport and Weston-super-Mare, and in December 2005/January 2006, playing another leading role as Fairy Crystal in the Snow White pantomime at the Grand Opera House in York. Snow White in her coffin, Theodor Hosemann, 1867. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Northampton Guildhall, built 1861-4, E.W. Godwin, architect Northampton is a large market town and a local government district in central England on the River Nene, and the county town of Northamptonshire, in the English East Midlands region. ... The Wearmouth Bridge Sunderland (pronounced: , or ) is a former county borough now part of the City of Sunderland, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. ... For other uses, see Southport (disambiguation). ... Weston-super-Mare is an English seaside resort town in North Somerset, population 65,000 (1991 estimate). ... York is a city in North Yorkshire, England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ...

As well as the annual pantomime performances, in 2004 she also starred on stage in the Hammond Production Group's The Young Ones Summer Holiday in Worthing. Worthing is a large town and a local government district in West Sussex, England. ...

In 2005 she featured as a dancer in the British feature film, Splinter.

Other work

In 2005 Danielle was one of the ambassadors of the UK Postcode Lottery based in the north east of England. The UK Postcode Lottery is a lottery in the United Kingdom, launched in the north east of England on 31 August 2005. ...

Personal life

In June 2006, she married Dean Holden ^[2], captain of Peterborough United football club. On Nicholls Yahoo! group page it was announced that she and Dean are expecting their first child. Dean Holden (born September 15, 1979 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English professional football player. ... Peterborough United F.C. are an English football team currently playing in Football League One. ... Yahoo! Inc. ...

References and notes

1. ^ Famous students. The Oldham College. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
2. ^ ^{a b} Jemma Walton (2006-10-24). Living the dream... but is it all it's cracked up to be?. Peterborough Today. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.

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External links

• Danielle's Official Website has a biography, news section and some exclusive photos.
• Unprofessionals website Includes many pictures and screen caps of Danielle.
• Danielle Nicholls Yahoo! group.