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Full Name:	Denise Van Outen
Birth Name:	Denise Outen
Famous As:	Actress, TV actress, presenter
Date of Birth:	May 27, 1974
Place of Birth:	Basildon, Essex, UK
Nationality:	British
Hair Color:	Blonde
Eye Color:	Brown
Relationships:	Jay Kay (singer), Nick Moran (actor), Richard Traviss (dance club owner, cohabitated 2002-2005)
Education:	Attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School
Claim to Fame:	As presenter for The Big Breakfast (1992)

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Denise van Outen
Van Outen filming on Waterloo Bridge for a Morrisons advert
Born	27 May 1974 (1974-05-27) (age 35) Basildon, Essex, England
Years active	1986 - present
Spouse(s)	Lee Mead (2009-present)

Denise van Outen (born 27 May 1974, Basildon, Essex) is an English actress and television presenter. Her most notable roles to date are as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both the West End and on Broadway.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early career 1.2 Television 1.3 Acting career 1.4 Radio 2 Comic Relief Climb 3 Personal life 4 Discography 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Born as Denise Kathleen Outen in Basildon, Essex, Denise is the youngest of three siblings. Her sister is a mother and housewife and her brother is a suit tailor.¹

At the age of seven, she began modelling for knitting patterns,¹ and showed an early flair for performing. This resulted in her attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School. As a student, she played Eponine in Les Misérables alongside fellow Sylvia Young student Melanie Blatt,² - the role paid her school fees;³ the Anthony Newley directed production of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Royal Shakespeare Company.¹

Early career

As a teenager she had brief roles on a number of television dramas including Kappatoo,⁴ She also sang with Cathy Warwick in "girl group" Those2Girls, by which time she had become Denise van Outen. She also did backing vocals with Melanie Blatt for the band Dreadzone.²

Van Outen has retained her distinct looks gracing the covers of popular men's and Women's titles and being voted both Rear of the Year in 1999, and top of a poll to find the most desired "bikini body" in a 2007 poll of readers of Grazia magazine.⁵

Television

During 1995, van Outen started her television career on Saturday morning ITV show Scratchy and Co's mini youth programme Massive! Van Outen joined The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 as a weather and travel reporter in 1996⁶ and landed the main co-presenting role in 1997. It proved to be her big breakthrough, with her cheeky "Essex Girl" personality and sexy clothing playing off well against the quick wit of Johnny Vaughan, and together they recovered audience figures to respectable levels.

She took a break from presenting the show towards the end of 1998 but returned in 2000 for a further year-long stint in an attempt to boost the ratings, which had tailed off following her departure.⁷ When the show closed down,⁸ van Outen gave Vaughan a present of a set of AMG wheels for his Mercedes Benz CLK - commented on as a "very Essex Girl" by Jeremy Clarkson when the pair appeared on the BBC's Top Gear programme.⁹

Van Outen then returned to television, reviving her on screen relationship with Johnny Vaughan in 2004 for one series of the BBC's Saturday night family revival show "Passport to Paradise,"¹⁰ She continued in 2005 co-presenting ITV's This Morning with Richard Bacon.

Van Outen was asked to be a panelist How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? in 2006 for the BBC, a programme searching for a girl to play the role of Maria in The Sound of Music,¹¹ but was unable to accept the offer due to commitments in the USA co-hosting NBC's Grease: You're the One that I Want!

After her commitments ended on the show she began re-establishing her television career in the UK. In November 2006, she hosted Sky1's The Race - set at Silverstone Circuit - in which a celebrity Girls Team headed by David Coulthard raced against a celebrity Boys Team headed by Eddie Irvine. In December 2006, she hosted the National Lottery Christmas special, and in January 2007 hosted one show of The Friday Night Project. She also guested on The Charlotte Church Show, and was one of the judges at the Miss World pageant in Warsaw, Poland.

In 2007, she joined the panel for BBC One's follow up to How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, Any Dream Will Do! which was casting Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.⁶ After viewers on 9 June 2007 voted Lee Mead as the winner of Any Dream Will Do! - to play the role of Joseph in a revival at London's Adelphi Theatre of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat van Outen said: "From the very beginning right through to the very end, Lee has been the most consistent out of all the contestants. He has the ability to make even really popular songs his own and he has his own unique style of performing. The next time he lands a role as a leading man, can he put me forward to be the leading lady?"¹²

In July 2007, she appeared in a commercial advertising the rebranding of Morrisons supermarket, with a backing track from revived boy band Take That.¹³

In 2008 Denise presented 'Backstage at the Brit's' for ITV1 and continued with a new Saturday night entertainment series for ITV1, alongside Ben Shephard, called Who Dares Sings. Challenging 100 members of the studio audience to hit the right notes in the largest karaoke competition on TV.¹⁴ Her on screen presence continued with For One Night Only alongside Michael Buble and Hairspray: The School Musical for Sky One. The programme saw Denise mentor a group of regular school kids to put on their own version of Hairspray on the West End Stage. Denise also recently appeared in the BBC One drama Hotel Babylon on 24 July 2009.

Acting career

During her first stint on the Big Breakfast show, she appeared as Jill in ITV1's version of the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk.¹⁵ alongside Julie Walters and Neil Morrisey. Wanting to further develop her acting career, she left The Big Breakfast at the end of 1998. In 1999 she appeared on several episodes of The Bill and The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rockstar, the BBC's Murder in Mind short series of crime dramas,¹⁶ and on 2 series of Babes in the Wood with Karl Howman and Samantha Janus.¹⁵

Van Outen has also appeared in film, initially as Maureen in the crime comedy Love, Honour and Obey. She also had a cameo tease as red head Alex, in the low-key Tube Tales in one of the four separate short films, based on the London Underground. Other directors included Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and Jarvis Cocker; while her part in "Horny" was directed by Lost In Space director Stephen Hopkins.¹⁷ Most recently, Van Outen has played a small role in the Romantic Comedy Are You Ready For Love?

She first played Roxie Hart on the stage in the hit musical Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End in April 2001.¹⁸ Her run proved a hit with theatre-goers, selling out for the entire 20 weeks. Unknown in the United States, she reprised her role on Broadway in the spring of 2002, before returning to the show's London version in late April 2002.¹⁹ Late the same year, Van Outen appeared as one of many special guest stars in a performance of The Play What I Wrote once again in London's West End.

In 2003, she returned to the London stage at the Gielgud Theatre in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one-woman show Tell Me On A Sunday,²⁰²¹ which he reworked for her. She was a huge success and the show ran for nearly a year.²² She then joined the cast of the established ITV sentimental drama Where the Heart Is as one of the lead characters, playing single mother Kim Blakeney, continuing for two series.²³

Van Outen played Maureen in the 2007 London revival of Rent Remixed directed by William Baker until 22 December.²⁴ She was forced to cancel some performances due to a throat infection.²⁵

In July 2009, Van Outen played Mary in Hotel Babylon for the BBC. Her character was at the hotel for a science convention.²⁶

In August 2009 Van Outen made her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut²⁷ in Blondes²⁸ (a show by Jackie Clune).

Radio

It was announced on 10 January 2008 that van Outen would be reunited with Johnny Vaughan and become the co-host of the Capital Radio breakfast show, from 4 February 2008.²⁹

However, on 29 July 2008 she decided to quit the show half way through her contract due to juggling her extensive TV commitments with the early mornings ³⁰

Comic Relief Climb

In 2009 Denise climbed Mt Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief. Joining her on the climb were Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh, Fearne Cotton, Ben Shephard, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating, Alesha Dixon and Chris Moyles.

Personal life

Van Outen's personal life has been subjected to the sharp glare of the British tabloid media. In 1991, aged 17, she had a relationship with shamed popstar Gary Glitter³¹³²³³. In 1996 Van Outen dated Dodgy guitarist Andy Miller. From 1998 to 2001, she dated Jamiroquai lead singer Jay Kay. They were engaged and reported to be on the verge of marriage,³⁴ but split up in 2001; his album "A Funk Odyssey" is mostly about their break-up, with the song "Little L" expressing his fight against cocaine addiction during their break up.³⁵

From 2003 she dated 'Brown's' club owner Richard Traviss, but split up with him in May 2005,²² moving out of the Marylebone home they shared and back into her own garden flat in North London.³ After appearing on Channel 4's The Friday Night Project and describing her first real kiss with fellow Sylvia Young student James Lance, he got in touch and they shared a short romance in 2007.³⁶ In November 2007, she began dating Any Dream Will Do winner, Lee Mead. Van Outen married Mead in April 2009 in the Seychelles. ³⁷ She is expecting her first child with Mead, due in May 2010.

Van Outen has lent her support to design limited edition T-shirts or vests for the 'Little Tee Campaign' for Breast Cancer Care which donates money for breast cancer research³⁸. Denise continues to support Breast Cancer Charities, Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Discography

All singles, unless otherwise stated:

• 1994: "Wanna Make You Go... Uuh!" (with Those 2 Girls) [UK #74]
• 1995: "All I Want" (with Those 2 Girls) [UK #36]
• 1998: "Especially for You" - shown as Denise & Johnny (a cover of the Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan song of the same name) [UK #3]
• 1999: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" - from the ABBAMania compilation album
• 2002: "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" (With Andy Williams) [UK #23]
• 2003: "Tell Me On A Sunday" (Original cast recording) [UK Album Charts #34]

References

External links

• Denise van Outen at the Internet Movie Database
• Any Dream Will Do! website

v • d • e BBC/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical revival search Series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (2006) • Any Dream Will Do (2007) • I'd Do Anything (2008) Musicals The Sound of Music • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat • Oliver! Winners Connie Fisher • Lee Mead • Jodie Prenger Runners-Up Helena Blackman • Keith Jack • Jessie Buckley Presenters Graham Norton Judges Current: John Barrowman · Denise van Outen · Andrew Lloyd Webber Former: David Ian · Zoe Tyler  · Bill Kenwright  · Cameron Mackintosh  · Barry Humphries

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