Jennifer Frost (born 22 February 1978) is an English singer and television presenter. She is best known as member of girl groups Precious and

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, replacing

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in the latter.

Biography

Frost was born in

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. Retrieved 8 March 2011 and grew up in

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, near

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. She loved music from an early age. Her earliest concert experience was when her father took her to a

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concert at the age of nine. Sport and dancing were Frost's favourite activities, however, modelling was her dream. After attending

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she started to work for

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on the ''

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'' programme and travelling around the world.

Career

1998–2004: Precious and Atomic Kitten

In 1998, Frost joined the girl group Precious, who were the UK entry at the

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, with the song " Say It Again", peaking top 10 hit in UK. Subsequent releases by Precious enjoyed only modest success, and their debut album failed to chart at all, ultimately leading the group to go their separate ways in 2000. In 2001, Frost moved on by replacing

, a girl group founded by OMD frontman

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. With Frost,

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and Natasha Hamilton, Atomic Kitten have had three UK number one singles, "

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", "

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", and " The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)". The group also had two UK number one albums, '' Right Now'', and '' Feels So Good'', both being certified double-platinum in the UK for sales of over 600,000 copies each. The total worldwide sales are estimated at 6.2 million singles and 4 million albums.

2005–2012: Television and hiatus

After the split, Frost signed with

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and became face for

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products. In 2005 appeared on the 2005 edition of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' on the ITV network, where she was eliminated on day 14. Frost features on Route 1's single "Crash Landing", released on 10 October 2005, which peaked at number 47. Frost planned to release a solo album and recorded several songs, such as "Mirrors" and "Bad Girl", but dropped it when she failed to sign with a record label. From 2008 to 2011, Frost presented the successful

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programme ''

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''. Also in 2011 she co-presented ''

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'' on Channel 5. In 2012 she presented the talk show ''

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'', her last work before taking a long hiatus from her artistic career to prioritize her family.

2021–2022: Atomic Kitten return

In 2013

were reformed, but Frost refused to rejoin them, and

returned as the third piece. In 2021, Frost temporarily rejoined

Personal life

From 2001 to August 2010 she dated the DJ Dominic Thrupp, with whom she had her first child, born on 9 October 2007. The couple planned to get married in January 2010, but they cancelled following the death of Frost's mother Rita from

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and, months later, they broke up. Frost's father died in September 2017. In August 2011, she married Spanish

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Vicente Juan Spiteri in

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. Their twin daughters were born on 20 January 2013.

Discography

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Filmography

Television

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References

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External links

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Jenny Frost official website
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