Caroline Feraday (born 25 May 1977) is an English television and radio broadcaster currently living and working in Los Angeles.

Radio

In 1995 at the age of 18, Feraday joined London radio station Capital FM, after studying journalism and earlier stints at

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and Invicta FM. She spent six years as the Capital's Flying Eye travel reporter, and presented the London Chart show, Early Breakfast and the Saturday evening Dance Show as well as co-presenting 95.8 Capital FM's Breakfast show with Neil Fox. In 2001 she moved to

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to present the travel reports on the Breakfast and Nicky Campbell shows as well as presenting her own shows - The Juice and The Weekend News, staying for two years. She then joined London radio station LBC 97.3, presenting the Drivetime show and later the Friday and weekend evening programmes. She now works at KCLU, an

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affiliate in Southern California. In 2022 and 2023, Feraday won Southern California's Audio Journalist of the Year, from the

Los Angeles Press Club The Los Angeles Press Club is an American journalism organization founded in 1913. It honors journalists through its annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and SoCal Journalism Awards. As of 2023, the Los Angeles Press Club hosted ...

. Since joining KCLU, she's also won seven

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's and two

National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.

BBC London

Feraday presented "Overnight on BBC London 94.9 with Caroline Feraday" from July 2011 until moving to Los Angeles in 2013.

Television

Feraday made her first appearance on television as a presenter on

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in 1998. Since then she has presented Sky Rocket on Saturday nights on Sky One, The FifPro Awards on Sky One, Celebrity World Cup Live for

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, as well as hosting for

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, and in Hollywood as well as reports on location and on the studio sofa for

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Living TV Sky Witness is a British pay television tv channel, channel owned and operated by Sky Limited, Sky, a division of Comcast. The channel primarily broadcasts procedural dramas from the United States aimed at the 18–45 age demographic. Sky Ital ...

, ITV's The Mint for ITV1 and ITV Play.

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and the ITV News Channel Breakfast show. She has worked as a showbiz reporter on '' This Morning'' on ITV, and was the voice of

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's morning show '' B4'' (daily at 7.00am) and the voice of Comedy Central and Comedy Central Extra from 2009 to 2014. She also co-presented comedy show ''Consequently'' for Carlton, and hosted Capital FM's

Party in the Park Party in the Park is the generic name given to music concerts organised by various radio stations and local authorities and groups in the United Kingdom, typically in large parks during the summer, however it is also used to refer to a family or ...

event in front of 100,000 people in 1998, 1999, 2000, and was the support act for the

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. She covered the 2012 Olympics decision live from

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for London TV. From 2007 until 2009, she presented and reported for BBC South East on

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, anchoring the morning news bulletins and 1.30pm lunchtime news. She presented shows on Thomas Cook TV. She continued to occasionally present and report for BBC News at South East and BBC London News, as well as anchoring the live BBC Children In Need television coverage from location. She regularly appeared on Five's ''

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'' as a panellist. She has also appeared as a Celebrity contestant on ''

The Weakest Link ''Weakest Link'' (also known as ''The Weakest Link'') is a television game show which The Weakest Link (British game show), first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and originally ended on 31 March 2012 when its host ...

''. Feraday presented '' The Mint'' on

and ITV. She appeared on ''

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'' on BBC 1 in 2011. She anchored Sky News in 2009 and 2010 and appeared as a newspaper reviewer and entertainment news correspondent from Los Angeles regularly on ''Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes''. She appeared in 2011 on Channel 5's short-lived ''Vanessa Show'' as a regular panellist, as well as on MTV's ''Jersey Royals'', and once, in 2010, on ''Heston's Celebrity Fairytale Feast'' (Channel 4). Feraday co-presented ''Sleepout Live'' in 2012 with

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and

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. She played in televised TV poker tournaments for Sky and Challenge TV. The character Amber Rose in Sony's game '' TV Superstars'' was based on Feraday and voiced by her.

Personal life

Feraday grew up in Halling Retrieved 24/4/21. in Kent, and attended

Rochester Grammar School for Girls Rochester Grammar School (known as Rochester Grammar School for Girls until 2006) often abbreviated to RGS is a grammar school for the education of girls between the ages of 11 and 18. It has academy status. It is now known as just "Rochester ...

. She later lived in Clapham, London. Feraday enjoys films, music and running, and participated in her first marathon – in London – in 2005. She plays the flute and ukulele. She has one daughter.

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feraday, Caroline 1977 births Living people British reporters and correspondents English radio presenters English television presenters People educated at Rochester Grammar School People from Medway