Tonight BBC presenter Angellica Bell found herself in the bottom three acts for the THIRD time. After performing their song for a second time Ray Stubbs, Colin Murray and Angelica Bell faced the judges. Each judge chose a different contestant but Richard Parks vote carried and he saved Richard Parks. The students gave Angelica and Colin two votes each, so the decision went back to the public vote. Colin polled the highest and so he has remained in the Fame Academy and is one step closer to the final. Here’s hoping he has a better song tomorrow night!

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How could she be surprised? It’s a singing contest….she can’t sing. And she’s not his girlfriend, Colin already has one of those.

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Political correctness gone overboard…I think so!

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Belfast-born Colin said: “If Edith wanted a wee shot at the Christmas No.1, I’d do that, just to spend a little bit more time with her.

“The offer is there. I’d have a go with Edith but I’m not looking for any serious singing career, even if I finished first which I don’t think I will.

“We could do Ebony And Ivory or Islands In The Stream.”

Now thats one Christmas single I would actually pay for!

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His career path includes digging graves at the age of 16, and print journalism for the Belfast News Letter and publications in Canada, as well as running the music magazine BLANK.

Radio

Colin Murray joined Radio 1 with Donna Legge in 1999 as one of the original hosts of Radio 1′s Session programmes. Their show went out every Thursday night between 7.30 and 9.00 focusing on the best new music from Northern Ireland. Colin and Donna quickly built a good rapport and went on to deputise for John Peel, Steve Lamacq and Mary Ann Hobbs. By 2001, Colin was also branching out into deputising for Daytime Radio hosts, so that in October 2001 he spent two weeks filling in on Late Drive for Dave Pearce. By 2002 he had caught the eye of Channel 4 and in February 2002 ceased deputising at Radio 1 to host Channel 4′s Morning Show- RI:SE.

However, RI:SE didn’t turn out to be a ratings success and in December 2002 Murray was unveiled as the replacement to Steve Lamacq on the Evening Session. However, this move was only a temporary measure by Radio 1 since in July 2003 XFM signing Zane Lowe took over the 8-10 pm slot on a full time basis.

By late 2003, Murray had teamed up with Edith Bowman (his former co-host from RI:SE) to host the Colin and Edith show. From September 2003, the show went out between 10am and 1pm every Saturday and Sunday in the slot now held by Vernon Kay. During his partnership with Bowman they also deputised for Sara Cox on the Breakfast Show.

By March 2004, Colin and Edith moved to weekday daytimes taking over the Lunchtime Show from Mark and Lard. On their 2 years on the Lunchtime Show, they grew their audiences to 5 million – a 10 year high.

In June 2006, Radio 1 announced that Colin and Edith would part company, with the latter continuing on the lunchtime show solo and Murray taking over a new weeknight 10pm – Midnight show, formerly held by John Peel.

The new late night show began on 25 September 2006 and includes a mix of New Music and alternative classics. Features include the College Drop in, Radio 1′s Blackhole and Four Reasons Why. The show is usually live, unless Murray does a football match on Five, when he usually tapes the radio show.

Recent reports have claimed that the BBC pulled a commercial for Murray’s radio show which featured him being released skywards attached to 500 helium balloons, in light of an accident suffered by Top Gear host Richard Hammond, but the BBC have denied these reports, saying that the aforementioned commercial will simply not be shown, and that other commercials had been filmed and will be shown instead.

Murray currently presents BBC Radio Five Live’s Fighting Talk, a sport related, comedic panel game of competitive banter, similar in style to ESPN’s Around the Horn, and has deputised for Simon Mayo on Five Live.

Television

TV work has included presenting shows on BBC Three – including Glastonbury coverage – and on Channel 4, where he reported for RI:SE and presented Born Sloppy with Sara Cox. In 2005 he became the new co-presenter of late night American Football on five, with expert pundit Mike Carlson. However he had to leave in the 4th week of the 2006 season due to his new work commitments at Radio 1 with a show that finishes at midnight (an hour before the NFL on five starts).

He also commentates broadcasts of the European Poker Tour, alongside John Duthie. He appeared alongside Edith Bowman on Sky Sports 1′s hit show Soccer AM. He has presented reports for Jo Whiley’s The Cut and presented EastEnders Revealed on BBC Three. He has also recently begun presenting Sudoku Street-Cred on UKTV G2. When the Red Bull Flug Tag was held in Belfast Colin Murray was the presenter.

He is also the anchorman for Five’s UEFA Cup coverage, often alongside Pat Nevin, moving John Barnes to a roving reporter role.

In March 2007,he will appear in the reality television programme Comic Relief does Fame Academy.

Other activities

While in Canada, he became a fan of baseball’s Toronto Blue Jays. His passions involve the aforementioned NFL (specifically, the Chicago Bears), Poker, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestling, Boxing and his love of Liverpool F.C..

He also DJs at student union events around the country. He was the first ever act to perform (DJ) at the University of Central Lancashire’s new Students’ Union building, 53 degrees, at its opening in 2005.

Colin has also compered at the Leeds leg of the last three Carling Weekend music festivals.

Courtesy of Wikipedia

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Colin Murray (Radio 1 DJ, TV presenter)

Fred MacAulay (DJ, broadcaster)

Linda Robson (actress)

Mel Giedroyc (comedienne, writer)

Miranda Hart (comedy actress)

Ray Stubbs (BBC Sport presenter)

Rowland Rivron (comedian/presenter)

Shaun Williamson (actor, Extras)

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (personality/TV presenter)

Tim Vine (comedian)

Tricia Penrose (actress)

Zoë Salmon (Blue Peter presenter)

Regular host Patrick Kielty will be joined by Claudia Winkleman who moves over from BBC Three, to preside over the live event from Fame Academy’s new and fitting venue, the Debating Chamber in London’s County Hall.

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