BIOGRAPHY & Credits
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A real life Eastender, Cheryl was born in Bethnal Green on 8th March 1954, Her bubbly personality was evident even in the early days of “Bucks Fizz” when they won the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1981. They went on to gain world-wide recognition with a string of hit records including three number ones, “Land of Make Believe”, “My camera Never Lies” and of course “Making Your Mind Up” and throughout this period, it was evident that Cheryl would develop a solo career one day. In 1984 she was asked to present the children’s television show, “How Dare You”, which set the ball rolling for her as a TV presenter. Apart from children’s favourites such as Record Breakers and Eggs ‘n’ Baker, she presented daytime current affairs shows, prime-time Saturday evening shows and even dog agility shows! During the 90’s, Cheryl was on TV 6 days a week! All this, and she was still singing with Bucks Fizz. So, at the end of 1993, Cheryl stepped down from Bucks Fizz after twelve years to concentrate on her solo career (See credit list). She is hugely popular with the general public, who consider her ‘the girl next door’. Whenever she makes an appearance either in the Media or at events, her charm and personality has everyone, young and old, eating from her hand. People relate to Cheryl – she is ‘one of them’. Cheryl is far from perfect and people love her for it! Cheryl’s life has been an entertaining one so she has recently been invited to speak after dinner or lunch, which she has thoroughly enjoyed doing! Cheryl has reformed with Mike Nolan and Shelley Preston and the three work together as “The Original Bucks Fizz”. On a personal note. Cheryl had to have IVF to conceive her twin daughters, and was happy to talk about it openly as she felt it could be of some help to other women. Consequently she is patron/supporter to almost every infertility charity in the UK! Cheryl feels it is a privilege to help charities whenever possible and is involved with many, especially children’s charities. Most recently she has been appointed Vice-President to the Royal London Society for the Blind and has been made Patron of the Lollipop Appeal, a charity to raise funds for a high-dependency unit for very sick children. She was one of the founders and is a trustee of HEADFIRST, a charity which raises funds for research, equipment and care of people who have suffered brain damage due to accident, stroke or disease. This charity was set up following the horrific coach crash back in 1984 when Cheryl was in Bucks Fizz, where her colleague and dear friend, Mike Nolan, sustained serious head injury resulting in brain damage. Cheryl is currently campaigning for cleaner NHS hospitals, after the very sad death of her mother-in-law through the super-bug ‘C-Diff’, contracted whilst in hospital. She openly admits to being a yo-yo dieter, having battled with her weight all her life. She says every diet works – if you stick to it! Cheryl lives in Kent with her husband of 15 years, Steve Stroud, their 13-year-old twin daughters, Kyla and Natalie, her father-in-law, Harry and their two German Shepherds, Bella and Simba. Steve is a bass player in many bands but his main guv’nor for the past 18 years has been Sir Cliff Richard. 2008Keeping up-to-dateSo far in 2008 she has appeared on Meredian Tonight and BBC Breakfast News. She has been interviewed on the radio several times and is in discussion regarding presenting a regular radio programme for KMFM. She is presently recording the next series of Inside Out for BBC South-East, to be shown this Spring. 2007 In 2007 Cheryl made guest appearances on 37 TV shows, including Ready Steady Cook, GMTV, BBC Breakfast and VH1 Cheesy Pop. She presented ‘The People’s Millions’ for Meredian Tonight, and was the sole presenter of the BBC’s acclaimed wild-life series, Saving Planet Earth for BBC South-East, receiving the greatest viewing figures from around the country. She was seen every Wednesday evening during the Autumn presenting archive film footage for “Inside Out” BBC South-East. She also presented the Christmas Day 10-1pm show for KMFM, a Kent-based independent radio station. She has recently been featured (again) in Hello Magazine. Cheryl is currently part of the Safestyle TV advertising campaign and has been seen in every newspaper, on every shopping mall bin (!) and every London underground train supporting a product for thinning hair. She is also endorsing The Cheryl Baker Magic Vac, a kitchen vacuum appliance to keep food fresh. Throughout 2007, The Original Bucks Fizz have performed at festivals both here and abroad, private functions, race meetings and corporate events. With More planned for 2008, The album, “The Very Best of Bucks Fizz” was released in May 2007 and reached No. 40 in the album charts. There was extensive promotional media coverage where Cheryl appeared on TV/radio/magazines/newspapers many times.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl Baker Credits Saving Planet Earth. Native endangered species BBC1 Inside Out South-East (2 series) Archive footage BBC1 Meredian Tonight ‘The People’s Millions’ Meredian
Footloose the musical Playing the part of Vi Moore National Tour & West End Production Honk The Musical in the role of Ida
Dial ‘M’ For Murder in the role of Sheila Wendice Panto’s KMFM Christmas Day Show
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