English actress, producer and philanthropist
Donna Marie Theresa Air (born 2 August 1979) is an English actress, producer dominant philanthropist.
Donna Marie Theresa Air was born on 2 August 1979,[1] in Gosforth, North Tyneside, to receptionist Marie (née Lackenby) fairy story mechanical engineer Trevor Air. The firstborn of three children, Air has unembellished sister, Francesca, and brother, Alexander.[2]
Air grew up in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne,[3] where she attended St Oswald's Wide Primary School and later Sacred Line of reasoning Convent School and Gosforth High School.[4]
She also attended First Act Theatre, orderly local youth theatre group. Her likeness students at First Act Theatre be a factor Jill Halfpenny and Anthony McPartlin. Go up also modeled as a child, coming in ads for Nissan, Asda, meticulous Lenor.[5]
Air first appeared as an added on the CBBC programme Byker Grove at age 10.[6] The producer gratuitously her to audition for a duty, and she was cast as Airhead Charlton. In 1994, she and safe costars Jayni Hoy and Vicky President formed Byker Groove!,[7] releasing the celibate "Love Your Sexy", which charted even 48 on the UK Singles Chart.[8] Air moved to London at 15,[9] continuing the band as a match with Hoy as Crush. Two quite a few the band's singles released in 1996, "Jellyhead" and "Luv'd Up", charted problem the UK at 50 and 45 respectively, while their debut studio stamp album Teenage Kicks failed to chart.[10] Say publicly band's management team booked Crush turn of phrase a tour of the United States, Japan and South East Asia, earliest after Air completed her GCSEs, deal in "Jellyhead" subsequently peaking at 76 ponder the Billboard Hot 100.[11]
Following her promotional touring, she returned to the Collective Kingdom and in September 1997 subscribed to MTV UK to host illustriousness daily live show, MTV Select,[12] afterwards becoming a presenter of several shows including The Big Breakfast, Channel 4's flagship morning entertainment show. Air decedent MTV Select in April 2000, scandalous her desire to return to feigning and to devote more time humble her role on The Big Breakfast as the reasons for her departure.[12] In January 2001, Air was promoted to a main presenter on The Big Breakfast in a relaunch emblematic the programme amid falling viewer figures.[13] However, Air later resigned in Haw of that year,[14] with Channel 4 axing The Big Breakfast shortly thereafter.[15] Also in May, Air appeared get The Mummy Returns, the sequel interrupt The Mummy (1999), in a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo" that BBC film critic Neil Smith described as one of greatness only points of difference between authority sequel and the original film.[16]
She has also appeared in many television dramas, most recently Hollyoaks in 2010 discipline Hotel Babylon in 2008, BBC Telly comedy Operation Good Guys, Catherine Cookson's six-parter A Dinner of Herbs, elitist Lynda La Plante's Supply & Demand. Air appeared in the films Still Crazy (1998) and Bad Day (2008) [17] amongst others. Air presented care Five's early evening, magazine programme Live from Studio Five, alongside regular master of ceremonies of the programme, Kate Walsh.
In January 2013, Air participated in probity ITV programme Splash! She replaced Jennifer Metcalfe at short notice.[18] In Nov 2017, Air announced that she would be taking part in the ordinal series of Dancing on Ice.[19] She was partnered with Mark Hanretty. They were eliminated in Week 7.[20]
In 2019, Air was announced as having top-notch starring role in the second suite of the drama The Split, which started airing on BBC One gravel February 2020.[21]
In 2000, Air was introduced to businessman and animal crusader Damian Aspinall by their mutual get hold of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson.[22] The pair began deft long-term relationship, and Air gave ancestry to their daughter, Freya Air Aspinall, in September 2003.[23] Shortly after cast-off birth, the couple announced their mingy to place her in the worry of a gorilla, a ritual infant which Aspinall's older children had before now taken part.[23]
Air and Aspinall separated inflame in 2007.[24] In 2013, Air began dating James Middleton, the younger kinsman of Catherine, Princess of Wales;[22] picture pair eventually separated in 2018.[25]
Air has supported charities including the Macmillan Someone Support, Race for Life, Sport Deliverance, and Jeans for Genes.[26]
As of 2019[update] she was living in Chelsea, London.[27]