Ed Petrie
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Petrie at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival
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Edward Oliver James Petrie 22 August 1978 Rustington, West Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, television presenter |
Edward Oliver James "Ed" Petrie (born 22 August 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and television presenter.
Petrie was born and raised in Rustington, West Sussex. He was educated at Broadwater Manor in Worthing, West Sussex, and the independent school Ardingly College in Ardingly, West Sussex.
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.
In 2002, Ed 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.
In 2012 he performed as one of the warm up acts on Greg Davies's Back of My Mum's Head tour.
Before joining CBBC's presentation department in September 2007, Petrie hosted the game show Wonderful World of Weird.
He later became the chief continuity presenter for the CBBC Channel, presenting afternoon links for the CBBC Channel alongside Oucho T. Cactus. The duo later presented Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions and a weekend morning show entitled Transmission Impossible with Ed & Oucho.
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