The multi-talented presenter on her favourite cry-laughing comedian, her love of men’s tailoring and her admiration for rapper Little Simz
Birmingham-born Brit School graduate Gemma Cairney began her career as a fashion stylist, turning to radio following a course at Point Blank music college. After stints on Big Brother’s Big Ears, the Kiss FM breakfast show and BBC Radio 1Xtra, she presented the Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show from 2012 to 2014. She then moved on to the Early Breakfast show, and since June has presented The Surgery with Dr Radha Modgil on Wednesdays. From 7pm tomorrow, Cairney will host Earth Can You Hear Us? at St Pancras station, London, to mark the beginning of the UN climate change talks in Paris.
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