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Konnie Huq
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Konnie Huq
Born 17 July 1975 (1975-07-17) (age 32)
Ealing, London, England
Occupation Television presenter
Known for Blue Peter presenter
Konnie Huq (Bengali: কনি হক, pronounced “Huck”; born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1st December 1997 until 23 January 2008. She is of Bangladeshi (Then East Pakistan) descent, and describes herself as being a “relaxed Muslim”. [1]
Contents
* 1 Biography
o 1.1 Blue Peter
o 1.2 Other television work
o 1.3 Comic Relief
o 1.4 The Tube
o 1.5 Olympic Torch Incident
* 2 References
* 3 External links
[edit] Biography
Konnie Huq’s parents moved to England from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the 1960s, and she was born and grew up in Ealing, London, with her two sisters, Rupa and Nutun. She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School in London, and Robinson College, Cambridge, where she obtained a 2:1 in Economics.
In 1989, at the age of 14, Huq was a guest on Blue Peter with the National Youth Music Theatre, where she sang a solo. In 1992, ahead of the upcoming general election, Huq interviewed Labour leader Neil Kinnock for the children’s programme Newsround.
In 1997, several months prior to joining Blue Peter, Huq presented Five’s early morning children’s programme Milkshake!
In 2008, Huq reportedly turned down a six figure sum to pose naked for Playboy magazine, Huq also refused to pose topless for Loaded Magazine. This was mentioned on an Episode of Al Murray’s Happy Hour aired on 21 January 2008. [2]
[edit] Blue Peter
Huq is best known for presenting the BBC children’s television show Blue Peter she joined on 1 December 1997. (At the time, Huq was regarded as being its 25th presenter, but the subsequent acknowledgement in 1998 of Anita West as a former presenter, means Huq is now the programme’s 26th host.) She is currently the third longest-serving Blue Peter presenter of all time and on 1 October 2007 became its longest-serving female host, passing Valerie Singleton’s record. On 22 January 2008, Huq presented her last live Blue Peter.
One of Huq’s most memorable early moments on Blue Peter was going to Bangladesh, and visiting members of her extended family whom she had not seen in a long time. In the shows 2004 “Summer Expedition” to India, Huq became an extra in a Bollywood film, and practised dancing alongside its stars. For the programme’s 2004 “Welcome Home” appeal, she made an emotional visit to Angola on behalf of Blue Peter, in the hope of reuniting children with the families they had been separated from due to war. In 2008, during her last ever programme, she broke a Guiness World Record by managing to pin 17 Blue Peter Badges onto fellow presenter, Andy Akinwolere’s shirt in a minute.
She presented with Stuart Miles, Katy Hill, Romana D’Annunzio, Richard Bacon, Simon Thomas, Matt Baker, Liz Barker, Zöe Salmon, Gethin Jones and Andy Akinwolere.
In March 2007 she apologised to viewers after a competition on the show was faked, saying “We’d like to say sorry to you because when this mistake happened, we let you down.”[3] She was later reported as saying that this event contributed to her decision to leave the show. [4][5]
On 31 May 2007, Huq announced that she would be leaving Blue Peter in early 2008.[6] Her last live show was aired on 22 January 2008, making her the longest serving female host ahead of Valerie Singleton.[7].
On 23 January 2008, Huq hosted her final Blue Peter, with a clip show of her highlights through the ten years she had been on the show.
The BBC was accused of political bias by a Conservative councillor in August, 2007, because Huq attended a pro-cycling event with London’s Mayor, Ken Livingstone, and Jenny Jones from the Green Party.[8] Her agent went ahead with this event despite the BBC telling him not to.[8]
[edit] Other television work
Between 2002 and 2004, Huq co-presented the CBBC Channel’s UK Top 40. More recently, she made her debut as a news presenter on the BBC Asian Network, in a series of documentaries on a new radio current affairs programme called the Asian Network Report.
In early 2004 Huq was briefly a presenter for Top of the Pops. She appeared on the CBBC series M.I.High as herself in the episode “The Big Freeze” broadcast on 22 January 2007. She presented GMTV’s coverage on New York Fashion Week on the week of 10 September 2007. She has also been a guest panelist on the comedy gameshow 8 out of 10 Cats.
December 2007 saw Konnie appear on a celebrity version of Ready Steady Cook alongside Blue Peter co-presenter Andy Akinwolere, as well as playing a servant (called Konnie) on the last episode of the second series of Robin Hood. Also in 2007, Konnie began presenting the ITV1 London show London Talking, a political debate show, alongside Vanessa Feltz and Nick Ferrari.
Konnie has filmed a programme for the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? [9]. She will be the subject of one of the programmes in the fifth series, which will be broadcast in Autumn 2008.
She has also co-presented some of the weekly Your News programme for BBC News 24 in 2008.
[edit] Comic Relief
In 2005, she took part in BBC One’s reality TV show Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, in aid of Comic Relief, and was the third contestant to be voted off, after her rendition of Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America”. She also travelled to Uganda and met orphan children, on behalf of Comic Relief, and is currently a celebrity ambassador for the British Red Cross.
[edit] The Tube
On 15 September 2006 Huq became one of the presenters of The Tube alongside Tony Wilson, Alex james and Emily Rose Channel 4 Radio[10] working with production company UKoneFM. The first show was broadcast on 3 November 2006.[11]
[edit] Olympic Torch Incident
On 6 April 2008, Huq was a carrier of the Olympic Torch through London when a protester tried to grab the torch from her whilst Huq was about to give the torch to the next runner. [1] The protest was about China’s invasion of neighboring Tibet. On BBC News later that day she defended carrying the torch but condemned China for its “despicable human rights record”.[12] The BBC called the Olympic run through London a “public relations disaster” for China. Huq was not hurt in the incident. Police wrestled the protester to the ground and arrested him.[13]
我身边的一位英国老爷爷,从游行开始就一直很亢奋,帮着我们骂那些脏毒们~~挖靠,人家那骂人的气势,还带那种男高音性质的颤音的,简直就太让我崇拜了!!! 
原来大家做了那么多事，太感动了，电视上都没有看到，只能在客厅里狂喊i love China, shame on BBC. 感谢所有到场的xdjms
楼主辛苦了 
来张正面的特写. 老爷爷的牌子上写的是提醒我们中国北京,小心2008奥运会的时候遭到那些不怀好意的恐怖份子的袭击. 
cinderella_lei于2008-04-07写道:
中间那个穿红色短袖的男生,印象很深哦~~他穿的真的很少哇!!!
而且,他带着大家唱歌时候的声音真的很有穿透力喔~~~~~~~~~~
穿红色短袖的那个男生很棒!
顶顶顶！！！
仔细的看了每一张图片，看到了我们团结的中国人的爱国之情！
为之振奋！！！！！
下流BBC为代表的西方媒体及可恨的ZD分子的丑恶嘴脸也记住了，扁！~
今天去现场为祖国为奥运加油助威的XDJM们都是好样的 ！！
另外，支持我们的外国朋友原来是那么的可爱！！ 
cinderella_lei于2008-04-07写道:
来张正面的特写. 老爷爷的牌子上写的是提醒我们中国北京,小心2008奥运会的时候遭到那些不怀好意的恐怖份子的袭击.
太可爱了，还挂着一小串钥匙
下雪了下雪了，四月雪必有冤情，老天也看不过去BBC这帮BITHCH们了
今天有个举国旗的男生，在看到2个■■女站在水池上边时，他毅然冲进水池里，边走边挥舞着大旗，在里面站了很长时间，感动啊! 热血男儿啊，超赞！
最后回到活动开始的地方–鸽子广场的上面,国家美术馆门口附近. 赵同学用中文做了一个简单的讲话和总结. 当时我走得有点慢,到得晚了,就没挤进去,所以只能在外围拍了这么一张.
好感动， 今天去拉现场得人，都能体会得到。第一次觉得，
原来大家团结起来，力量可以这么大。~
太壮观了, 中国人果然强大无比,
看的我都心血澎湃啊, 真后悔没买张机票来.
在办公室经常看见■■在联合国门口聚集,可惜这边人好少, 只有签名活动, 要是有london那么多人,围绕联合国一圈, 那就太牛了. 直接把■■给憋死.
hawk_larry于2008-04-07写道:
今天有个举国旗的男生，在看到2个■■女站在水池上边时，他毅然冲进水池里，边走边挥舞着大旗，在里面站了很长时间，感动啊! 热血男儿啊，超赞!
谢谢提醒~~刚才我忘记提这件事情了! 当时我们所有在后面的人群都在议论,怎么可以让那两个女的站在上面那么嚣张,警察也不管! 气愤死了!!! 说着说着,就看见那个爷们出现了,那么大一面国旗~~~~~人群顿时就炸了,所有的中国人都激动的尖叫了起来~~~~~ :cn03:
vincielychee于2008-04-07写道:
flysmallfish于2008-04-07写道:
大家仔细看，几个纱帽外国人边吸烟边喊f*** tibet，一看就拿钱雇来的
我以为是FUCK TIBET
我也是…… :cn14:
windrunner于2008-04-07写道:
Found the woman who nearly lost the torch on wiki. she worked in BBC.
Konnie Huq
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Jump to: navigation, search
Konnie Huq
Born 17 July 1975 (1975-07-17) (age 32)
Ealing, London, England
Occupation Television presenter
Known for Blue Peter presenter
Konnie Huq (Bengali: কনি হক, pronounced “Huck”; born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1st December 1997 until 23 January 2008. She is of Bangladeshi (Then East Pakistan) descent, and describes herself as being a “relaxed Muslim”. [1]
Contents
* 1 Biography
o 1.1 Blue Peter
o 1.2 Other television work
o 1.3 Comic Relief
o 1.4 The Tube
o 1.5 Olympic Torch Incident
* 2 References
* 3 External links
[edit] Biography
Konnie Huq’s parents moved to England from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the 1960s, and she was born and grew up in Ealing, London, with her two sisters, Rupa and Nutun. She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School in London, and Robinson College, Cambridge, where she obtained a 2:1 in Economics.
In 1989, at the age of 14, Huq was a guest on Blue Peter with the National Youth Music Theatre, where she sang a solo. In 1992, ahead of the upcoming general election, Huq interviewed Labour leader Neil Kinnock for the children’s programme Newsround.
In 1997, several months prior to joining Blue Peter, Huq presented Five’s early morning children’s programme Milkshake!
In 2008, Huq reportedly turned down a six figure sum to pose naked for Playboy magazine, Huq also refused to pose topless for Loaded Magazine. This was mentioned on an Episode of Al Murray’s Happy Hour aired on 21 January 2008. [2]
[edit] Blue Peter
Huq is best known for presenting the BBC children’s television show Blue Peter she joined on 1 December 1997. (At the time, Huq was regarded as being its 25th presenter, but the subsequent acknowledgement in 1998 of Anita West as a former presenter, means Huq is now the programme’s 26th host.) She is currently the third longest-serving Blue Peter presenter of all time and on 1 October 2007 became its longest-serving female host, passing Valerie Singleton’s record. On 22 January 2008, Huq presented her last live Blue Peter.
One of Huq’s most memorable early moments on Blue Peter was going to Bangladesh, and visiting members of her extended family whom she had not seen in a long time. In the shows 2004 “Summer Expedition” to India, Huq became an extra in a Bollywood film, and practised dancing alongside its stars. For the programme’s 2004 “Welcome Home” appeal, she made an emotional visit to Angola on behalf of Blue Peter, in the hope of reuniting children with the families they had been separated from due to war. In 2008, during her last ever programme, she broke a Guiness World Record by managing to pin 17 Blue Peter Badges onto fellow presenter, Andy Akinwolere’s shirt in a minute.
She presented with Stuart Miles, Katy Hill, Romana D’Annunzio, Richard Bacon, Simon Thomas, Matt Baker, Liz Barker, Zöe Salmon, Gethin Jones and Andy Akinwolere.
In March 2007 she apologised to viewers after a competition on the show was faked, saying “We’d like to say sorry to you because when this mistake happened, we let you down.”[3] She was later reported as saying that this event contributed to her decision to leave the show. [4][5]
On 31 May 2007, Huq announced that she would be leaving Blue Peter in early 2008.[6] Her last live show was aired on 22 January 2008, making her the longest serving female host ahead of Valerie Singleton.[7].
On 23 January 2008, Huq hosted her final Blue Peter, with a clip show of her highlights through the ten years she had been on the show.
The BBC was accused of political bias by a Conservative councillor in August, 2007, because Huq attended a pro-cycling event with London’s Mayor, Ken Livingstone, and Jenny Jones from the Green Party.[8] Her agent went ahead with this event despite the BBC telling him not to.[8]
[edit] Other television work
Between 2002 and 2004, Huq co-presented the CBBC Channel’s UK Top 40. More recently, she made her debut as a news presenter on the BBC Asian Network, in a series of documentaries on a new radio current affairs programme called the Asian Network Report.
In early 2004 Huq was briefly a presenter for Top of the Pops. She appeared on the CBBC series M.I.High as herself in the episode “The Big Freeze” broadcast on 22 January 2007. She presented GMTV’s coverage on New York Fashion Week on the week of 10 September 2007. She has also been a guest panelist on the comedy gameshow 8 out of 10 Cats.
December 2007 saw Konnie appear on a celebrity version of Ready Steady Cook alongside Blue Peter co-presenter Andy Akinwolere, as well as playing a servant (called Konnie) on the last episode of the second series of Robin Hood. Also in 2007, Konnie began presenting the ITV1 London show London Talking, a political debate show, alongside Vanessa Feltz and Nick Ferrari.
Konnie has filmed a programme for the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? [9]. She will be the subject of one of the programmes in the fifth series, which will be broadcast in Autumn 2008.
She has also co-presented some of the weekly Your News programme for BBC News 24 in 2008.
[edit] Comic Relief
In 2005, she took part in BBC One’s reality TV show Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, in aid of Comic Relief, and was the third contestant to be voted off, after her rendition of Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America”. She also travelled to Uganda and met orphan children, on behalf of Comic Relief, and is currently a celebrity ambassador for the British Red Cross.
[edit] The Tube
On 15 September 2006 Huq became one of the presenters of The Tube alongside Tony Wilson, Alex james and Emily Rose Channel 4 Radio[10] working with production company UKoneFM. The first show was broadcast on 3 November 2006.[11]
[edit] Olympic Torch Incident
On 6 April 2008, Huq was a carrier of the Olympic Torch through London when a protester tried to grab the torch from her whilst Huq was about to give the torch to the next runner. [1] The protest was about China’s invasion of neighboring Tibet. On BBC News later that day she defended carrying the torch but condemned China for its “despicable human rights record”.[12] The BBC called the Olympic run through London a “public relations disaster” for China. Huq was not hurt in the incident. Police wrestled the protester to the ground and arrested him.[13]
BBC就是藏毒圈养的狗。两者在反华意见上出奇的一致。
这个女人面带微笑的丢失火炬，我怀疑那个抢的可能也是BBC的。TNND
气愤那些(支持■■的人） 
，为CHINESE而感动 
从楼主的照片上看到了我啦(没带相机,收藏先,谢谢lz)…
今天跑了广场, st.paul, 伦敦桥, 一路狂奔加狂喊, 太累了,睡觉去了…等会再来顶帖…