Vanessa Feltz
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Vanessa Feltz at the Stonewall Awards 2011
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| Born |
Vanessa Jane Feltz 21 February 1962 Islington, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Broadcaster, journalist |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Notable credit(s) |
Presenting: The Big Breakfast (Channel 4) Vanessa (ITV) Vanessa's Real Lives (ITV) The Vanessa Show (BBC One 1998-9, Channel 5 2011) Being a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother 2001 Ultimate Big Brother (2010) (Channel 4) Columnist The Daily Express |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Kurer (m. 1983–2000) (divorced) |
| Partner(s) |
Ben Ofoedu (2006–present) |
| Children | 2 |
Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television personality, freelance broadcaster and journalist. She currently presents an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2 and the Breakfast show on BBC Radio London.
Vanessa Feltz was born in Islington, London and grew up in Pine Grove, Totteridge. On her radio show she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London" and her middle class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof".
Her father Norman was in the lingerie business. Her mother Valerie (née Ohrenstein) was a housewife who died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 57. She has one sister who is three years younger.
Feltz was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, an independent school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. She then read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge University with a First Class Honours degree.
After leaving university, Feltz moved from temping work to writing for The Jewish Chronicle, then the Daily Mirror. She often specialised in sex advice, writing for the magazine Men Only, and her sex tips for girls book called What Are These Strawberries Doing on My Nipples? I Need Them For The Fruit Salad! She also presented a Jewish radio show on BBC GLR (now BBC London 94.9).
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