Olivia Lee

Olivia Lee is a British comedian, actress, and television presenter.

Olivia Lee
Lee in 2013
OccupationComedian, actress, television presenter
WebsiteOliviaLee.com

Early life

Lee is from a Jewish family.[1] She studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.[2]

Career

Lee landed a presenting job alongside Simon Amstell on Channel 4's T4. She later appeared on comedy show Balls of Steel, where she pulled pranks such as interviewing celebrities with a penis-shaped microphone.[3] She was later given her own show on Channel 4, Naughty Bits,[4] and performed hidden camera pranks on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[5]

Lee appeared in an episode of The Basil Brush Show in 2004. In 2006, she was interviewed and featured in a photoshoot for FHM.[3] In March 2009, she appeared as a guest on internet talk show Tom Green's House Tonight.[6] Dirty Sexy Funny, a hidden camera show, which originally piloted on Channel 4 in 2008, began airing on Comedy Central in March 2010[5][7] and ran for two season. Lee was the host of the Fox Reality Channel game show Battle of the Bods before Fox Reality's dissolution ended its run.[8]

In January 2012, it was announced that Lee would join the cast of Balls of Steel Australia for its second series. Her act in the show is "Prank TV Oz", in which she pranks various members of the public while taking on different personas in a similar manner to her hidden camera show Dirty Sexy Funny. On 17 March 2012. She is married to Dan Renton Skinner, aka Angelos Epithemiou, and has a child with him. They met when they both starred on a celebrity version of Come Dine With Me. Lee appeared on a celebrity edition of Channel 4 game show The Bank Job for charity.

References
  1. Olivia shows off her naughty bits... againTotally Jewish, Lauren Krotosky, Thursday 18 March 2010
  2. Olivia Lee shows off her Naughty Bits in a new Channel 4 showThe Jewish Chronicle, Candice Krieger, 21 August 2008
  3. "Olivia Lee". FHMonline.com. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  4. "Comedy Lab: Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits". Channel4.com.com. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  5. "Olivia Lee Interview: Dirty Sexy Funny". SKY.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-06. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  6. "Tom invites British comedienne Olivia Lee over to make her debut on The Channel". TomGreen.com. 7 March 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  7. "Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee". ComedyCentral.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-02. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  8. "Interview with Olivia Lee host of Fox Realitys Battle of the Bods". Archived from the original on 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
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