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Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1967-05-28

Place of Birth

Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Emma Kennedy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emma Kennedy (born Elizabeth Emma Williams 28 May 1967, Corby, Northamptonshire) is an English television presenter, actress and writer. She was educated at Hitchin Girls' School and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. At Oxford in 1987, she worked with (among others) Richard Herring and Stewart Lee in comedy troupes the Seven Raymonds and The Oxford Revue. She used to present The Real Holiday Show on Channel 4. She has since made appearances in TV comedies Goodness Gracious Me, This Morning With Richard Not Judy (again with Lee and Herring), Jonathan Creek alongside Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin, People Like Us (with Chris Langham) and hit BBC comedy The Smoking Room, along with appearing in several of The Mark Steel Lectures, as well as in several plays and radio shows. She was also a movie reviewer on Five's Terry and Gaby Show. In addition to this, she has made several appearances on Big Brother's Little Brother. Kennedy has written for radio, television and the theatre. She provided voices for The Comic Side of 7 Days and was a regular on the BBC Radio 2 comedy That Was Then, This Is Now with Richard Herring. She appeared in the movie Notes on a Scandal and also appears in the Five series Suburban Shootout and Suburban Shootout 2: Clackers at Dawn. She now appears as a regular on the popular podcast As It Occurs To Me. Her first book How To Bring Up Your Parents was published in August 2007. It is loosely based on her blog. Her second book, The Tent, The Bucket and Me is based on her childhood camping experiences and was published in April 2009. Her first children's book, Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Frozen Hearts was released in July 2009. Her second children's book, Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Putrid Poison was released in July 2010. The third book in the series Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Fatal Phantom is due for release in November 2010 and the follow-up to The Tent, The Bucket and Me - provisionally entitled I Left My Tent In San Francisco - was released in May 2011. Emma announced on Twitter in July 2009 that she has been signed up to write a further three books. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emma Kennedy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ready, Steady, Cook

Ready, Steady, Cook

Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes

Big Brother's Little Brother

Big Brother's Little Brother

Each week, the housemate evicted from the Big Brother house the previous week traditionally spends another week on Big Brother's Little Brother, answering questions and taking part in Call BBLB along with other features. The show also boasts celebrity guests and experts who come in to discuss and analyse the remaining Big Brother housemates.

Big Brother's Bit on the Side

Big Brother's Bit on the Side

The place to catch up on all things Big Brother UK! Join Emma Willis for the best mix of exclusive clips, news and reactions from the house, plus celebrity guests and live debates in the studio.

Great British Menu

Great British Menu

Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.

Not Going Out

Not Going Out

Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle-class citizen Tim is always there to stop Lee from getting in trouble, or not? Mayhem is never far away with cleaner Barbara who has never done an honest day's work in her life.

Celebrity Mastermind

Celebrity Mastermind

Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.

Jonathan Creek

Jonathan Creek

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

The Terry and Gaby Show

The Terry and Gaby Show

The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin. The opening titles featured Gaby dressed up like a movie star driven to the studio in a limo and walking on red carpet to the door. Meanwhile Terry, carrying a briefcase, rode a rickety old bicycle across London and parked it outside the back door before quietly entering the building through said back door. The show was not well known for the guests who appeared on it, but rather for its many bloopers or double entendres

Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side

Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side

The place to catch up on all things Celebrity Big Brother UK! Join Rylan Clark-Neal for the best mix of exclusive clips, news and reactions from the house, plus celebrity guests and live debates in the studio.

Big Brother's Big Mouth

Big Brother's Big Mouth

Miranda

Miranda

Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.

Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

Strange Hill High

Strange Hill High

Mitchell, Becky, and Templeton set out to discover their school's many mysteries and secrets, along the way encountering monsters, paradoxes, and timely winery nonsense as they try to avoid the headmaster and Mitchell's worst enemy, Mr. Abercrombie.

Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

People Like Us

People Like Us

People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Originally a radio show for BBC Radio 4 in three series from 1995 to 1997, it was made into a television series for BBC Two that aired from September 1999 to June 2000.