How To Become A TV Presenter

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It's rare for this blog to promote goods and services but this caught our eye. There are some useful tips mentioned here about becoming a tv presenter.

TV Presenter Bloopers

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A classic from the late great BBC tv presenter Robin Day:

TV Presenting Under Pressure

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How To Be A TV Presenter

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You could start by joining Presenter Promotions and going on one of their many courses which are held throughout the year.

TV Presenter Dies At 70

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Lenny Bennett has passed away. Remember him well on the tv years ago.

Kate Garraway to present..............

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..........."The Biggest Loser". Not a show about someone's pension fund but a new TV series about losing weight. Lovely Kate has been chosen to present the new show according to Digital Spy. Read the report here.



Photos from the Daily Mail

Tom Cruise to appear with Jonathan Ross

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You maybe aware that tv presenter Jonathan Ross is back on air, Friday week, January 23rd. Joining him on his BBC chat show are comedian Lee Evans, Stephen Fry and Hollywood star, Tom Cruise.
Question is, will Wossy (as he calls himself on Twitter) be as popular as he was before his three-month ban?

David Beckham on Italian Sky Sports

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You may have heard that there's been a bit of bother over the proposed interview between David Beckham and the gorgeous Ilaria D'Amico of Italian Sky Sports. Apparently, Victoria doesn't want her hubby to chat with "Italy's sexiest sports presenter" according to newspaper reports. Victoria may have seen photos of Ilaria on the internet. Point is, if she can't trust her husband why stick with him?

How To Be Professional On TV

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Just found this clip on You Tube. The American tv presenter inadvertently uses a profanity but gets away with it. No apologies, no red-faced embarrassment, she was just being professional.

Miss World 2008

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Who remembers Michael Aspel interviewing the Miss World contestants on the BBC years ago? Nowadays, I'm not sure whether it would give a male tv presenter street-cred or vilification in today's "pc" world.

This year's contest was won by Kseniya Sukhinova from Siberia.

Presenting on Television

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Can be difficult at times. Take this poor chap!

Even rehearsing your lines until you are blue in the face won't always help you getting it right to camera.

How To Interview A TV Star

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Another excellent evening for Leicester Square Television at the Jermyn Street Theatre this week. I managed to catch up with Eastenders star, Scott Maslen(Jack). He was in the West End to support Peter Dunne and the cast of The Dreamers Of Inishdara.



Co-presenter Thomas had earlier caught up with Peter Dunne and Patricia Quinn.

Doing A Piece To Camera

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You'll see this sort of thing on television most days. Whether a news item or presenting a documentary-style piece, rehearsing one's lines can be tricky to get right first time. Here's me caught on camera last year in Central London:

I Wanna London Woman Wife

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"The beauty about my job is that you never know what happens next" - viewers of my latest showreel will be aware of that comment. And you know something, it's true. Just take a look at this from the Frieze Art Fair last weekend at Regents Park:

Penelope Cruz at the London Film Festival

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Quite jealous of my co-presenter, Rhiannon. She was with the LSQ TV crew who were in Leicester Square for the UK Premiere of Vicky Cristina Barcelona

How to Sound Great on the Radio

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You really ought to listen to one of our best presenters Gabby Logan on BBC Radio 5 live. Bright, perceptive and punchy her show is a great listen. A little earlier this morning, Bob Weide, director of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" was one of her guests. He had a bit more time with her than I did at Leicester Square the other evening and he spoke in more depth about H2LF&AP as well the US Election.

For those of you who have seen my presenter showreel (see left-hand margin or http://www.jeremyjacobs.com/presenter-preview/) you'll know that she appears about two-thirds of the way through. Apart from being a radio and television presenter, Gabby is also a corporate host and speaker.

How to Win at Public Speaking Competitions

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A bit tongue-in-cheek this one. Earlier on, I won the "Table Topics" contest at my Toastmasters International speaking club, London Corinthians. For those of you familiar with Toastmasters, Table Topics is all about impromptu speaking. I had about 10 secs to make up my mind what I was going to speak about. Luckily for me, I'm quite quick of mind and thought and managed to beat the five other contestants. This means I go forward to represent London Corinthians at the next round.

How can you be a winner at public speaking?

1. Join a Toastmasters Club

2. Attend reguarly

3. Learn how to become expert at speaking "on-the-cuff"

4. Enter competitions.

Remember, you've got to be in it to win it!

Tv Presenter

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In the Guardian newspaper a couple of weeks ago was this story about Blue Peter. New presenter Joel Defries will be hosting the show as part of the presenting team celebrating the programme's 50th anniversary next month. Is it really 50 years?

Robert De Niro & Al Pacino in Leicester Square

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Later today, the two Hollywood greats are expected at Leicester Square for the UK Premiere of "Righteous Kill". I'll be there with Leicester Square Television, so check out http://www.lsq.tv tomorrow night for clips.

Sell Yourself

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One way of keeping in touch with your existing and prospective customers is to inform them of what you are doing. Many individual and organisations send mailshots and the quarterly newsletter is always popular isn't it.

Internet expert, Graham Jones, likes e-mail. So do I. Just recently, I sent out a link to my "latest news" page on my main presenter site.