Kate Lawler

Background

She was born in Beckenham, London.

Career

Since leaving, she has worked as a television presenter and personality, a model and as a disc jockey. In September 2002, Lawler became a DJ on Capital FM, a position she held until December 2003. She co-presented the Channel 4 breakfast television show Rhode Island:Southeast from February 2003 until it was axed in December of that year.

In 2005, she was one of the competitors in the Independent Television show Celebrity Wrestling, competing under the name The Brawler.

Lawler wrote a twice-weekly 2006 column for The Sun online for the duration of the series. On 14 August 2006, Lawler entered Love Island 2 as a new arrival.

She came third top female in the final of Love Island. In 2006, Lawler appeared on Brainiac: Science Abuse, receiving an electric shock in an "electric chair".

She was a presenter on Playdate, a late-night dating programme on ITV2.

Lawler has appeared in various men"s magazines, including Loaded, Front, Nuts and Zoo. On 24 July 2006 Ann Summers announced that Lawler would be the company"s new model in its lingerie advertisements. In 2007 Lawler appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy Rob Brydon"s Annually Retentive.

On 1 October 2007 Lawler joined Kerrang! Radio, co-presenting the breakfast show, The Morning After alongside Tim Shaw from 7:00am–10:00am.

When Shaw was suspended from the station on 23 April 2008, Lawler temporarily helmed the breakfast show on her own until Shaw"s dismissal was confirmed. At this point, on 12 May 2008, she moved to Drive!, Kerrang"s 4:00pm–7:00pm show, which she presented on her own until OJ Borg joined the show as her co-presenter on 27 October 2008.

After the departure of Borg in October 2009 she became a solo presenter once again and is building audiences according to recent RAJAR figures with a programme which appears to major on audience interaction and features, much like a breakfast show. Kerrang stopped broadcasting on FM in the West Midlands, and was just broadcast digitally in the summer of 2013, and Lawler was made the Breakfast host

On 26 January 2008 Lawler returned to as a hijacker for a day in the new show Celebrity Hijack.

She ran the Flora London Marathon on 13 April 2008 wearing only Ann Summers lingerie, raising funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

On 18 September 2010 she appeared on Celebrity Total Wipeout. In 2013, Kate joined Manchester based Key 103, her show is networked on other northern stations such as Radio Aire, Viking FM and Rock FM presenting Monday-Thursday at 10.00pm-1.00am. In summer 2014 Liverpool"s Radio City 96.7, became part of the shows that were networked.

She also started to do the shows from Sunday-thru-Thursday.

Kate"s last show with Key 103 was on Thursday 28th May 2015 and has now headed down to London to pursue some great new opportunities. Kate still remains part of the Bauer radio family as she continues to host her Kerrang Radio Breakfast show each morning.

On the 10th February 2016 Kate announced on her Twitter page that she is excited to be part of and start working with Virgin Radio, which launches on 30th March 2016, on digital radio and online.

Achievements

• She was the first female winner of United Kingdom, winning the third series (2002) of the reality television show. Kate Lawler won the third series of in 2002, becoming the first female contestant to do southern She helped her team, the Warriors, win the team championship, but was eliminated in the semi-finals of the individual competition by fellow model Leilani Dowding. She appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation gameshow Hole in the Wall in autumn 2009 and won the £10,000 which she donated to a cystic fibrosis charity.