Ryan Lappin (born 1980) is an Australian television personality. He is known to co-hosting children's morning show, ''

Cheez TV ''Cheez TV'' was an Australian children's cartoon show, hosted by Ryan Lappin and Jade Gatt, that aired on weekday mornings on Network Ten. It began broadcasting on 17 July 1995 and it ended on 31 December 2004 with the presenters leaving. Af ...

'', from 1995 until 2004 with Jade Gatt.

Biography

Lappin was born in 1980. As an actor he has appeared on ''Home and Away'' and took the role of Bartholomew/Bart on ''

Heartbreak High ''Heartbreak High'' is an Australian television program created by Michael Jenkins and Ben Gannon that ran from 1994 to 1996 on Network Ten and 1997 to 1999 on the ABC, for seven series. It was also partially funded from 1996 by BBC2, with s ...

''. Lappin started co-hosting ''

'' with Jade Gatt in July 1995, on weekday mornings for

Network Ten Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of five ...

. Aside from presenting cartoons such as ''Pokémon'', ''Digimon'', ''Transformers'', ''Dragon Ball Z'', ''Count Duckula'' and ''Rugrats''; the pair also performed skits. They left ''

'' in December 2004. Lappin was a member of the Australian band, UfOBiA, previously named, the Grymm. In 2009, he appeared in a television commercial for

Dare Iced Coffee Bega Dairy & Drinks is a subsidiary of Australian diversified food company Bega Cheese, having been purchased from the Japanese company Kirin (who owns Lion in Australia) in November 2020. While owned by Kirin, it was known as Lion Dairy & D ...

. Lappin and Gatt were special guests at

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in 2011, which ran from 22 to 24 July. AVCon is an anime and video games convention that is held yearly in

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. On 14 February 2016, Lappin and Gatt launched a podcast, ''The Jade & Ryan Show''. In June that year, Lappin and Gatt appeared on the

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tour in Sydney and Perth.

References

External links

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UfOBiA's MySpace page

Lappin's Dare Ice Coffee commercial

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