Downtown Julie Brown, is a London-based actress, SiriusXM DJ and former Music Television VJ.
Background
Brown"s father, Valentine Brown, was Jamaican and her mother, Doreen, is British. Her father was in the Royal Air Force and she grew up on air force bases all around the world, including Singapore and Cyprus, before returning to the United Kingdom, where they settled in Bridgend, Wales.
Career
Brown is best known as the host of Club Music Television (1985-1992). Soon after, Brown began a career on British television as presenter and guest on a number of children"s programs, including the long-running entertainment show Crackerjack. Brown became a presenter on the pan-European music channel Music Box and, after moving to the United States, eventually became an Music Television VJ and went on to host the Club Music Television show in the late 1980s.
That show had a format similar to American Bandstand"s but featured an exclusive lineup of dance music
From this came her famous catchphrase, "Wubba Wubba Wubba", after she accidentally read the T-shirt of a camera crewmember who was holding the cue cards while on live television Music Television capitalized on the confusion between Downtown Julie Brown and comic actress Julie Brown by sending the pair together as correspondents for Music Television News as well as by their "facing" each other on both their shows (Club Music Television and Just Say Julie). After leaving Music Television, Brown went on to work for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network conducting onand off-field interviews with football athletes.
Brown then moved to Los Angeles to host the East Entertainment channel"s gossip show. She also became the host of the syndicated radio program American Dance Traxx in March 1992 until its final broadcast in December 1993.
Brown has appeared in a number of movies and television shows, including Spy Hard.
Spring Break "83. The Weird First Rate (at Lloyd's) Show. B*A*P*South. Ride; Walker, Texas Ranger.
Battle Dome; Hey Arnold!.
I"m a Celebrity, Get Maine Out of Here!. The Dog Whisperer; The Eric Andre Show. And RuPaul"s Drag U. Most recently, she appeared in television"s Wife Swap on 21 July 2013.
She also appeared on the cover and posed nude for the August 1998 edition of Playboy.
Brown is currently a host on the SiriusXM channel "90s on 9. In addition to hosting programming on a daily basis, she also hosts the "The Back in The Day Replay Countdown," wherein the 30 biggest songs of the week from a particular year in the 1990s are counted down.
Membership
Brown also appeared as a dancer on Top of the Pops in the early 1980s as a member of the dance troupe Zoo. She is very prominent on the Christmas Day 1981 show, in particular.