Biography
Prideaux attended school at Queen's College, Taunton, Somerset where she obtained 3 A-levels. She began sports reporting for BBC Radio Five Live and BBC News 24 before making her way to Radio One working within the Newsbeat team. Carrie joined the Chris Moyles show in October 2004, replacing Juliette Ferrington who moved on to work solely for BBC Radio Five Live.
Prideaux reports regularly for BBC London sports news and occasionally for Match of the Day 2. She can sometimes be heard match reporting on the BBC's football results programme Score. She also narrates for the National Geographic show What Would Happen If.
She left the BBC on Thursday 1 March 2012 after taking redundancy and stated on Twitter that she was unable to commit to the BBC Sport move to Salford, due to family reasons. Her last appearance was on the BBC News Channel at just after 11.30pm.
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