- Presenters & Awards Hosts
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- TV/Radio Presenter
Dermot O'Leary
DERMOT O'LEARY is one television's rising young stars. His TV career started in 2004 with Shattered for Channel 4 which involved contestants battling against sleep deprivation. This was followed by the third series of SAS Are You Tough Enough? for BBC2 (nominated for a National TV Award 2004) filmed in the Namibian desert and Born To Win for BBC1, where we saw young promising athletes competing for a once in a lifetime bursary opportunity. Now Dermot is back on the airwaves again, after his own indie music show on XFM he is Saturday Club for Radio 2 .
Spending the early part of his career as a researcher, Dermot now has his own production company. Having two credit's under it's belt with Dermot's Sporting Buddies and now Parent Trap for BBC3, they are developing several pilots, some including Dermot presenting, some producing.
Diversity
Diversity is Dermot's strength, he started out by establishing the hugely successful T4 for Channel 4, Dermot's credits include Big Brothers Little Brother for Channel 4 which he has anchored for the last three years, ITV's X Factor, Some Of My Best Friends Are Catholic for Channel 4 and Re:Covered, a music show for BBC3, winner of a RTS award and nominated for a Montreaux Rose.
'Live' is Dermot's forte and he has hosted many events, including Party in the Park, The Clothes Show Live, The Empire Film Awards, The British Independent Film Awards , The Heat Crusaid Auction and most recently the Oxfam Make Trade Fair Concert.
