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Daisy DonovanDaisy Donovan is a British presenter and actress. She is a graduate of
Edinburgh University. She became widely known presenting The Eleven O'Clock Show
(1998-2000) with Iain Lee, and has since gone on to host the quiz shows. These
shows are Does Doug Know? and the eponymous Daisy Daisy, which she also wrote
and produced. She has gained fame in America with her show Daisy Does America.
Donovan became a receptionist, and then a runner on the first series of The
Eleven O'Clock Show. The producers were looking for a female interviewer who
would act straight but use comedic lines, and searched everywhere - until they
tried their receptionist, the rather posh-talking Donovan. She made occasional
appearance as "It Girl" Pandora Box-Grainger. Promoted in the second series to
presenter, below comedian Iain Lee, she became the "Angel of Delight", let loose
on politicians – she once asked Denis Healey whether he would ever give Margaret
Thatcher a "pearl necklace" – and got the co-host job with Lee from late
1999–2000. Donovan is good at that posh, goofy thing that Englishmen find strangely
attractive. It’s also the reason that she connects better with certain members
of her own sex than her miniskirted, permatanned contemporaries. Where overt
sexuality is threatening, funniness is accessible. “Women my age shout things
like, ‘I f***ing love you!’ really loudly at me in the street,” she tells me
after the shoot. “And then, we both go red.” Daisy Donovan.
Angell's Hell (2005) (TV) .... Polly
London born and bred, Daisy is the daughter of the late Terence Donovan, the famous photographer. She lives in Chelsea, with her mother, Diana, who chairs the Arts Foundation and the English National Ballet School. She has an older brother, Terry, who works as a marketing director in New York and she also has a half-brother named Dan, who is famous for Big Audio Dynamite and being Patsy Kensit's first husband. She went to St Paul's Girls School, were she met her inspiration Baroness Heather Brigstocke, her Headmistress. After leaving school she went to Cambridge to read Classics, but found that subject was not for her - she liked to perform. Before working on the show she graduated from Edinburgh University in Performing Arts. Daisy, along with Paul and Iain, has been on the 11 O' Clock show since it's inception. She started off behind the camera as a researcher in the first series of the show and made an occasional appearance as ‘It Girl' Pandora Box-Grainger. She was promoted in series 2 to presenter whilst also carrying on working as a researcher. It was also here that 'The Angel of Delight' was let loose on our politicians and Daisy was let loose on the streets, microphone in hand. This is where I feel Daisy is at her best, interviewing. Since then, from the third series in late 1999, Daisy was promoted again to co-presenter, doing equal work with Iain, whilst continuing her outside interviews. In series 4, The Angel of Delight was replaced with The News Avenger. The News Avenger turned out to be in the shadow of The Angel of Delight in terms of quality, and seemed to be dropped after a few weeks. In the final week of Series 4, two street interviews in America that Daisy did were broadcast, and both were excellent. During the middle of 1999 Channel 4 chiefs were rumoured to be looking into her as the new presenter for ‘The Big Breakfast', but nothing came of it. During the summer of 1999 Daisy said she learned to moonwalk, organised Net Aid and also swam the Channel. Highly unlikely as she said it on The 11 O'Clock Show in October. She appears to be a photographer, as this list from taken from the Vogue web site as recent as February 2000. PHOTOGRAPHS © PHILIP BERRYMAN, PADDY COOK, SEAN CUNNINGHAM, DAISY DONOVAN, ANDREW LAMB AND PETER LINDBERGH Since the departure of Ali G, Daisy was the most popular person on the show, possibly because that roughly two thirds of the show's viewers are male… Or maybe it's because she has more talent than the others… You judge for yourself. Daisy has now left the show to pursue an acting career, and maybe also to further her presenting career. Daisy currently appears in her top rated show 'Daisy Daisy' currently airing
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