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Michaela is
possibly best known for her work on ITV's The Really Wild Show and the BBC's
Countryfile.
Michaela
began her television presenting career on TV-AM including three years on the
award winning Saturday morning show The Wide Awake Club with Tommy Boyd, Wacaday
with Timmy Mallett, Wac 90, Wac Extra and subsequently her own Saturday and
Sunday morning programmes, Hey Hey It's Saturday and Michaela.
Since 1990
Michaela has become more familiar to audiences for presenting wildlife
programmes - Owl TV for HTV and Channel 4 (four years), the award-winning Really
Wild Show (nine series), The Really Wild Guide (two series), The Web and The
Animal Zone, all for the BBC's Natural History Unit, plus Wildlife Rescue II for
Anglia.
To older
viewers Michaela will be known for her four years as "Her" in the late night
music programme The Hitman And Her which she presented with Pete Waterman.
Michaela's guest appearances are too numerous to mention but do include Visions
(a religious exploratory programme) and Naruhodo - The World, which she filmed
in Japan
as part of the Japanese season on Channel 4. She has both introduced and guest
starred in the Children's Royal Variety Show.
In 1997
Michaela co-hosted Wildscreen, the wildlife film festival awards which were
screened on BBC TWO. Early in 1998 she co-presented The Fossil Roadshow with
Peter Snow, also for BBC TWO.
In 1998, she presented Orang-utan Rescue, a moving and spectacular BBC ONE
wildlife special focusing on the plight of the orang-utans. In 1999, Michaela
presented the Really Wild Show - Tiger Special, which was nominated for a BAFTA.
She also
completed a 50-minute documentary Shark Encounters which was filmed in
California and South Africa as part of a BBC Natural History Unit Shark Season.
She is very
popular in the corporate market, making personal appearances and hosting events,
being a very well known face to both old and young alike.
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