Gemma Cairney is an exciting, stylish and unique presenter whose infectious personality makes her one of a kind.
Having being known for co-hosting the massive, Sony nominated, BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show every weekday morning with Trevor Nelson, she can now be heard fronting her own show every afternoon from 1-4 pm. She continues in her role as the official fashion expert for Radio 1.
Gemma has just returned from Mount Kenya where she climbed the second highest mountain to raise funds for the Trekstock charity.
Gemma was the official roving reporter for the BBC3 Coverage of 1Xtra Live and Glastonbury Festival 2009 and 2010 alongside Fearne Cotton, Edith Bowman and Reggie Yates.
Earlier last year, Gemma filmed a one-hour special for Channel 4, covering the Snowbombing Festival in Austria as the solo presenter on the show. She was also seen presenting for Sky One at the Jim Carrey film premiere ‘A Christmas Carol’ and voiced the JLS Revealed documentary for ITV2.
Gemma is now a website columnist for Company Magazine and also featured in the magazine’s one’s to watch list. She also made the top 100 hot list in Red Pages, the online media bible for the TV and Casting world.
In her spare time, she’s a fashion stylist to the stars. This came into action when she was seen presenting alongside Henry Holland and our own Alexa Chung in the T4 Show, Frock Me, every Sunday. Having styled the BRIT nominated artist, Florence and The Machine, and working on a special fashion project with singer VV Brown, she certainly knows what to wear. Since the age of twenty, Gemma has been juggling various styling work, she can also include the names of Kate Nash and Pigeon Detectives in her own styling portfolio and in the past has taken the role of assistant stylist to some of the biggest acts in the country.
With Gemma’s big personality, open-minded approach and tons of enthusiasm, she decided to ditch the “post shoot” cocktails in 2007 and took a free course in radio in Hoxton. Fresh from completing the course, she then pitched and eventually landed a show Festival Fever for Channel 4 Radio reporting and interviewing bands from all of the biggest summer festivals in the same year. Following this in 2008 she was the downright loud mouth voice of channel 4 radio’s Big Brother’s Big Ears with Iain Lee and was one of the presenters for Bite seen on Channel4.com reviewing Britain’s freshest trends with nothing more than a hand held camera. Before starting on 1Xtra she covered two weeks hosting the Kiss 100 Breakfast Show during Summer 2008.
Gemma is a Brit School graduate alongside the likes of Amy Winehouse, Kate Nash, Adele and MTV face Rickie Haywood-Williams. She is definitely destined for great things within the entertainment industry and ready to take on the challenge.
Follow Gemma on twitter: @gemcairn
