Liza Tarbuck - Presenting

Presenting

After a seven year break from television, she presented the fashion programme She's Gotta Have It in 1998. Her exuberance, humour and presenting skills landed her a presenting job on The Big Breakfast where she forged a successful partnership with Johnny Vaughan. In 2001, she teamed up with her father for a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. In the early 2000s, she hosted the Sky One game show Blockbusters and has been a guest presenter on Have I Got News for You. In 2003, Tarbuck hosted Channel 4's Emmy Award winning panel-discussion/gameshow Without Prejudice?.

Tarbuck has also hosted a late-night edition of Win, Lose or Draw, and has also presented Britain's Top Dog, as well as narrating the last series of the British documentary Airport in 2005.

She has also presented a one-off quiz for Five called I Blame The Spice Girls to celebrate Five's tenth birthday. She has also been one celebrity to appear in a series of adverts for the UK supermarket Asda.

During September 2007 she co-presented the weekday afternoon show on BBC Radio 2 with Mark Radcliffe, whilst Steve Wright was on leave. In December 2007 (and again in January and March 2008), she once more hosted the show, this time as a solo presenter. In July 2008 she once again co-presented with Radcliffe. In December 2008 and January 2009 she presented the Saturday morning slot on BBC Radio Two with Martin Freeman. For a week in March 2009 Liza stood in for Sarah Kennedy's popular Dawn Patrol show.In August 2009, she stood in for Jonathan Ross on his Saturday morning show on Radio 2, alongside her on the show was Huey Morgan of Fun Lovin' Criminals.The pair presented the show again in November 2009.

She makes occasional appearances on the BBC Radio 4 show Just a Minute, and signed a deal with Sky One to present a show called Pet Nation alongside Fun Loving Criminals Frontman Huey Morgan in 2010.

She has also narrated the Channel 4 dieting show Supersize vs Superskinny since 2008.

In July/August 2010, Liza stood in for Simon Mayo on his BBC Radio 2 Drivetime Show for three weeks. She stood in for him again from April 18-22 in 2011, from August 1-19 in 2011 and February 14-18 in 2012.

In March 2012 the BBC announced that Tarbuck would start presenting her new Saturday night show on BBC Radio 2 from 12 May 2012. It will be on between 6-8pm, and replaces the programme presented by Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes after Carr announced his decision to leave the network.

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