Angela Scanlon


Angela Marie Scanlon is an Irish television presenter and broadcaster for RTÉ and the BBC. She initially broadcast on Irish television, presenting a number of programmes on RTÉ including documentary Oi Ginger! in 2013.
Since 2016, she appeared as a reporter on The One Show, and presented in the absence of Alex Jones. She undertook her first role on a major British show as a co-host of Robot Wars with Dara Ó Briain in 2016.

Early life

Angela Scanlon was born in Ratoath, County Meath, Ireland. Her father worked in construction and her mother worked in administration. She has three sisters. She attended school in Dunshaughlin, Meath. Scanlon then went on to study business at Dublin Institute of Technology. After graduating, she spent a period of time travelling, including six months in New York, in Australia, and South East Asia. Scanlon planned to set up a fashion shop upon returning to Ireland.

Career

Scanlon has worked as a stylist and a journalist, before moving into television. She wrote for Tatler, Grazia, Company, U Magazine, and Sunday Times Style magazine. She also writes the column "Out of the Closet" for the Irish Independent's Weekend magazine. She has been featured in magazines including Vogue, Elle Japan, Sunday Times Style, Company and TWIN.
In 2001, Angela Scanlon was a dancer with the O'Shea Irish Dance Company and appeared in the Irish Thunder show at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia USA.
In 2012, The Irish Times described Scanlon as one of '10 Irish Instagrammers You Need to Follow'. Scanlon was named as the 'one to watch' by Vogue in 2013 and has been cited in The Observers regular Why We're Watching feature as the UK's new onscreen fashion queen. The Daily Telegraph also commended Angela's talents in Who's That Girl. In 2013, she fronted a campaign for Louis Vuitton.
After working on fashion shows Xposé and Off the Rails for RTÉ and on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, Scanlon went on to join RTÉ's The Movie Show as a reporter and on The Love Clinic in 2012. Scanlon appeared on the popular The Saturday Night Show with host Brendan O'Connor, in 2013 and 2014.
Scanlon joined the panel of Next Week's News in February 2014 and also put together a Yahoo! 12-part series Work the Look demonstrating how to pull off key essential looks.
Her first major documentary Oi Ginger! was broadcast in 2014. Angela Scanlon: Full Frontal was her follow-up series airing in October 2014, addressing subjects sometimes considered taboo. Scanlon was featured on Republic of Telly's Ginger is the New Black in October 2014.
In 2014 she hosted London Fashion Weekend for a third time, a job she took over from Caroline Flack after hosting the Vodafone Live Lounge for the British Fashion Council at the event for two years. Scanlon co-hosts BBC Northern Ireland/RTÉ's popular holiday programme, Getaways having taken over from Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin. Scanlon also launched Marks & Spencer's pop-up Halloween shop with Joanna Lumley in aid of Oxfam.
In November 2016, it was announced that Scanlon, along with Michelle Ackerley, would provide maternity cover for Alex Jones and co-present The One Show with Matt Baker in early 2017.
In 2016, she presented her own series, Angela Scanlon's Close Encounters!, and the documentary, Trump's Unlikely Superfans, for BBC Three.
In 2017, Angela was revealed as a Garnier ambassador alongside Holly Willoughby and Davina McCall. She did not appear as part of the advertising campaign in 2018, leaving Willoughby and McCall to continue to work with the brand.
In 2018, Scanlon hosted her own BBC Radio 2 show on Sunday mornings from 4–6am.
Angela covered for Sara Cox while Sara was covering for Chris Evans on 11 and 15–18 October 2018.
On 16 April 2019, Scanlon started presenting a new 15-part TV series for BBC Two called Your Home Made Perfect. This is a home renovation series that pits the architects Laura-Jane Clark and Robert Jamison against each other to see who can come up with the best design for a problem home. In the series, ground-breaking virtual reality technology and VFX are employed to showcase the two potential renovation solutions, with the couple finally choosing which design to proceed with and build. A second series was commissioned and broadcast from 9 October 2019.

Personal life

She has been married to Roy Horgan since 2014 and they have a daughter born on 25 February 2018. They live in London.

Filmography

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YearTitleRoleChannel
Off the Rails
2008–2010XposéStylist
Next Week's NewsPanellist
2012–2013The Movie ShowReporterRTÉ One/RTÉ2
2012The Love ClinicReporter
2014Oi Ginger!Presenter
2014Angela Scanlon: Full FrontalPresenterRTÉ2
2015–2016GetawaysCo-presenterBBC Northern Ireland/RTÉ
2015The Voice UKOnline presenterBBC Online
2015T in the ParkCo-presenterBBC Three
2015—The One ShowReporter and stand-in presenterBBC One
2016—2018Robot WarsCo-presenterBBC Two
2016Angela Scanlon's Close EncountersPresenterBBC Three
2016The British Academy Film Awards: Red CarpetPresenterBBC Three
2016Trump's Unlikely SuperfansPresenterBBC Three
2017Tourettes: Teenage TicsNarratorBBC Three
2017Delete, Delete, DeleteGuestBBC One Northern Ireland
2017DebatablePanellist, 3 episodesBBC Two
2017Britain's Greatest InventionContributorBBC Two
2017World's Oldest FamilyPresenterBBC One
2017Richard Osman's House of GamesContestant, 5 episodesBBC Two
2018—Bake off: Extra SlicePanelistChannel 4
2019—Your Home Made PerfectPresenterBBC Two