Lauren Laverne
| Lauren Laverne | |
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Lauren Laverne in 2007
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| Born |
Lauren Cecilia Gofton 28 April 1978 Sunderland, England |
| Residence | Muswell Hill, London, England |
| Occupation | Disc jockey, television presenter, singer, author, comedian |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Television |
The Culture Show 10 O'Clock Live |
| Spouse(s) | Graeme Fisher (m. August 2005) |
| Children | 2 |
Lauren Cecilia Fisher (née Gofton, 28 April 1978), known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, television presenter, author, singer and comedian. She presents a radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music, and has presented television programmes including 10 O'Clock Live for Channel 4, and The Culture Show and coverage of the Glastonbury Festival for the BBC. Laverne has written a published novel entitled Candypop: Candy and the Broken Biscuits.
In her previous career as a musician, Laverne was best known for being lead singer and sometime guitarist in pop band Kenickie, although her greatest chart success came when she performed vocals on Mint Royale's single "Don't Falter".
Laverne was born and brought up in Sunderland in a large family. One grandfather had been a shipbuilder, another a coalminer. Her father was an academic and her mother was a teacher. She first attended St. Mary's R.C. Primary School in 1982, where she befriended Marie Nixon, later to become a fellow Kenickie guitarist, and then St. Anthony's Girls' School between 1989 and 1994, where she and Nixon met Emma Jackson. Laverne went on to study at City of Sunderland College from 1994 to 1996.
During her time at college, Laverne, Nixon and Jackson formed a teen punk band called Kenickie with Laverne's brother Peter, taking the stage names Lauren Laverne, Marie du Santiago, Emmy-Kate Montrose and Johnny X.
In all, Kenickie achieved four top 40 hits and a top ten album.
Laverne became as famous for her funny and acerbic interview style as for her music, making her a popular contestant on comedy panel shows such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Have I Got News for You, memorably referring to contemporaneous girl group the Spice Girls as "Tory scum".
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