Anna Maria Kitty Skura Jutbring (born 8 April 1977) is a Swedish reality television contestant, radio and television host, singer and DJ. She became known in Sweden after being a housemate on ''
Big Brother'' in 2002, and has since become a radio and television host by hosting shows on
Sveriges Radio P3
P3 (''Sveriges Radio P3'' or ''pe tre'') is a mainstream CHR-formatted station operated by Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization Sveriges Radio. The P in P3 originally stood for Program (''Programme'') but today has ...
and
SVT. Jutbring has hosted shows like ''
Musikhjälpen
''Musikhjälpen'' (; "Music Aid") is the Swedish version of the Dutch '' Serious Request'' radio and television campaign. The annual show is an appeal for money which each year helps a certain cause. Three radio/television personalities are lock ...
'' on television and ''Christer'' on radio.
Career
In 1999, Jutbring won ''
VeckoRevyns'' competition "Plus Size Model of the Year". Jutbring became known in Sweden when she was a housemate in the second series of the Swedish version of the reality show ''
Big Brother'' which was broadcast on
Kanal5
Kanal 5 (''Channel 5'') is a Swedish television channel that was launched in 1989. It is owned by the US-based media company Warner Bros. Discovery, changing its ownership from ProSiebenSat.1 Media in April 2013.
After a troublesome 1990s, Ka ...
in 2002. After that Jutbring participated in
Fort Boyard on
TV4 and
Club Goa {{refimprove, date=April 2009
''Club Goa'' was a 2005 Swedish TV show in which Strix (TV production company), STRIX Television's 12 most famous reality TV stars went on a bar tour to Goa, India. In 2005, several reality shows had been aired in Swed ...
on
TV3. Jutbring is also a member of her own band Kitty & The K who performed in the Hultsfredsfestival in
Hultsfred
Hultsfred () is a locality and the seat of Hultsfred Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 5,143 inhabitants in 2010. It is best known for the Hultsfred Festival
The Hultsfred Festival ( sv, Hultsfredsfestivalen) was an annual music festiv ...
in 2005.
Jutbring is a radio host and has given relationship advice in the
Sveriges Radio show ''Christer''. She has hosted the show several times when the usual host was on vacation or on other radio duties. She is the host of the teen television show ''Hasses brorsas låtsassyrras kompis'' ("Hasse's brother's stepsister's friend") on
SVT and she has also hosted ''Bobster'' which is broadcast on
Barnkanalen.
In 2008, Jutbring participated in the radio and television charity show ''
Musikhjälpen
''Musikhjälpen'' (; "Music Aid") is the Swedish version of the Dutch '' Serious Request'' radio and television campaign. The annual show is an appeal for money which each year helps a certain cause. Three radio/television personalities are lock ...
'', in the show's very first broadcast, with
Henrik Torehammar
Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia. In Poland, the name is spelt Henryk but pronounced similarly. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Heiki (Estonian), ...
and
Ehsan Noroozi Ihsan (also Romanization of Arabic, transliterated as Ehsan; Arabic, Persian language, Persian and ur, إحسان or , ku, ئیحسان) is an Arabic masculine given name.
Given name
; Ihsan
* İhsan Oktay Anar (born 1960), Turkish writer
* İhsa ...
.
For the show, Jutbring was locked inside a glasshouse and broadcast live radio for six days.
Jutbring also participated as a celebrity dancer in ''
Let's Dance 2009'' on TV4.
In 2010, she participated in the winter game show ''Vinterspelen Åre 2010'' on Kanal5, and in 2011 she was the host for the P3 Guld Awards on SVT. Since 2000, she has been a DJ and nightclub proprietor and owns several nightclubs around Sweden, mostly in
Gothenburg,
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal popula ...
and
Stockholm.
Jutbring has been an active proponent of
feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...
and equal opportunities for women. She has been particularly vocal regarding the situation of adolescent girls in Sweden regarding issues of body consciousness and sex. Jutbring has also been an active proponent of the new and controversial gender neutral
personal pronoun
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as ''I''), second person (as ''you''), or third person (as ''he'', ''she'', ''it'', ''they''). Personal pronouns may also take dif ...
''
hen
Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a female chicken, other galliformes, gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a lobster. It is also a slang term for a woman.
Hen or Hens may also refer to:
Places Norway
*Hen, Buskerud, a villa ...
''.
Personal life
At the end of 2012, Jutbring and her boyfriend Per Störby had their first child, a daughter.
References
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1977 births
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish women singers
Electronic dance music DJs
Living people
People from Gothenburg
Swedish DJs
Swedish radio personalities
Swedish women radio presenters
Swedish television hosts
Swedish women television presenters