Biography
TV presenter, Film critic, travel journalist, stand up comic,
Radio DJ, singer/
songwriter, voiceover artist, and talk show host. I get called
Roo from Winnie
the Pooh because of my unending ability to be overexcited
by yet another
new project or challenge. Perhaps it’s the Gemini in
me. Perhaps it’s ADD.
Or perhaps I just can’t stand still. Whatever. I’m
not stopping now.
If you want a proper tidy career CV – then click
on this link.
I’m an elected
member of the London
Film Critics’ Circle, and hosted the 2002
Awards at
the Dorchester Hotel.
I also hosted the 2004 Royal Premiere of the
Merchant of Venice
in Leicester
Square, and the 2005 Premiere of Tim Burton’s
“The
Corpse Bride”.
My theatrical debut(!) was co-writing and co-performing in
the comedy show
Asteroid Haemorrhoid
at the Gilded Balloon for the 1999 Edinburgh Festival
with the hugely talented Lizzie Roper. It was both pant-wettingly
terrifying,
and utterly exhilarating, which is why I decided to do stand
up comedy.
I’ve done lots of TV over the years. My first gig was
hosting a Street Hockey
show for Channel 4 when I was 18. What a trend that didn’t
turn out to be….
Television credits include writing and presenting four series
of the film show
Screentime for Meridian TV, where I also co-hosted Brainwaves
– a show
about inventions - with HRH Prince Edward. Nice bloke; bad
jumpers.
In 1995 I presented ITV’s “The Little
Picture Show”, where I sat on a funky
yellow sofa and interviewed Hollywood stars including Tom
Hanks, Will
Smith, Catherine Zeta Jones and Pierce Brosnan. Other filmy
stuff includes
hosting the Empire Film Awards for ITV in 1997, the 2001 ITV
Planet of The
Apes Special from Manhattan and being a cinema rent-a-quote
for shows
including This Morning, Good Stuff, Newsnight, and Sky News.
I had a couple of years doing one of the best gigs in the
world – travel
journalist. I wrote and presented The Travel Bug for The
Travel Channel
visiting Crete, Sri Lanka, Maldives ,Tunisia, Venice, Lanzarote,
Antigua,
Barbados, St Kitts, and Nevis. I’ve also written some
travel features
for Cosmopolitan magazine.
It was radio where it all began – working on a Sunday
night rock show on
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire when I was still at school. I then
co-hosted and
produced my own show Pop Life from the launch of BBC GLR in
1988, and
went on to co-host the weekday show “Interference”
with Chris Evans. After
15 months DJing on the now defunct Radio Luxmebourg I was
part of the
original line up on Richard Branson’s Virgin
Radio in 1993 and hosted
weekday drivetime. After that was BBC Radio 1,
where I hosted Summer
Road shows, and also BBC1’s Top of the Pops, on one
occasion with Robbie
Williams. It was in his love-in-with-Oasis days. He wasn’t
looking his best.
I’ve been invited to do some weird and wonderful live
gigs over the years.
In 2002 I hosted a UK arena tour of the "Young Voices"
choir: 6,000 school-
children performing to audiences up to 17,000. I got to stand
on stage
at places like the Sheffield Arena and try and MC a crowd
of overexcited
sugar dosed school kids. Madness.
Corporate work has also been varied: I hosted Oz Talk at the
Travel Fair
Conference, been the In-flight DJ for Virgin Atlantic, and
presented videos
for RCI Holidays and Cathay Pacific, as well as providing
media training
for various companies and individuals.
So what next? I’m really excited about my album Duvet Tuesday which is
available here to buy on my music page.
Check out www.myspace.com/wendylloyd for updates and gig info.
December 2008
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