Arielle Free

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Arielle Free
Born (1988-03-29) March 29, 1988 (age 33)
Stirling, Scotland
OccupationRadio presenter
EmployerBBC

Arielle Free (born 29 March 1988) is a Scottish DJ and presenter. She is known for presenting on BBC Radio 1 and Scrambled! on ITV.

Early life[]

Free was born on 29 March 1988 and is originally from Stirling but moved to Glasgow when she was ten years old. She considers herself to be a Glaswegian. Free began dancing when she was eight years old, and attended the Dance School of Scotland at Knightswood Secondary School.[1][2][3]

Career[]

Film and televsion[]

Free acted in the Beauxbatons scenes in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.[1]

Free presented the children's TV show Scrambled! on CITV.[3] While presenting the show on 3 October 2017, Free took part in a world record attempt for the most limbos achieved by a team of 25 people in three minutes. The team set a record of 142 limbos, verified by the Guinness World Records.[4]

Radio and podcasts[]

Free and Kem Cetinay co-presented the official Love Island podcast Love Island: The Morning After which ran since 2018.[5]After the suicide of Caroline Flack in 2020, the podcast and the TV show were pulled. [6]

On 6 September 2019, Free began presenting the weekend early breakfast show on BBC Radio 1, which included Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings.[7] In January 2021, she moved to the weekday early breakfast show from Monday to Thursday.[8]

On 21 August 2021, Free and Lawrence Chaney, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK season 2, co-hosted a show on BBC Radio 1 in honour of the station's Drag Day.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Arielle Free". Music Musings & Such. 2021-05-29. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio One star Arielle Free says she is a weegie and Glasgow made her streetwise". Glasgow Times. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
  3. ^ a b Curtis, Liam. "Get to know Radio 1's Arielle Free". HITC. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  4. ^ "Most limbos in three minutes (team of 25)". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  5. ^ Taylor, Frances (2018-05-26). "Kem Cetinay to host new official Love Island podcast The Morning After". RadioTimes. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  6. ^ Newman, Vicki (2020-02-17). "Love Island bosses pull Morning After podcast in wake of Caroline Flack's death". Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  7. ^ "Arielle Free to present new Radio 1 weekend early breakfast". BBC News. 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  8. ^ "Radio 1 announces new presenter line-up". BBC News. 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  9. ^ Lyons, Bev (2021-08-12). "Scots Drag Race UK winner Lawrence Chaney taking over Radio 1 for Drag Day". Daily Record. Retrieved 2021-08-21.

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