Ashley Roberts

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Ashley Allyn Roberts (born September 14, 1981)[1] is an American born, British based singer, dancer, and media personality. She was a member of the girl group The Pussycat Dolls (2003–2010, 2019–2021), who sold over 55 million records worldwide, becoming one of the world's best-selling female groups of all time.[2][3][4] Roberts also had a brief career as a solo singer when she released the album Butterfly Effect (2014).

Roberts went on to present various television shows, including Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2013–2016), the Emmy-nominated 1st Look (2016–2018), The Real Dirty Dancing UK (2022), and Dance Monsters (2022–present).[5] She has also appeared as a contestant on British reality television shows, including I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2012), The Jump (2015), and Strictly Come Dancing (2018).

In 2019, Roberts became the showbiz correspondent for the national Heart Breakfast radio show. Since 2022, she has been a presenter for Heart 00s, a spin-off from the Heart radio network.[6][7]

Early life

Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Shadow Mountain High School. She is the daughter of Pat Roberts, the former drummer of the Mamas & the Papas, and Peggy Lorraine, a Pilates instructor. She began dancing at the age of three and singing at eight. Roberts' hair was brunette during her teenage years.[8]

Career

2001–2010: The Pussycat Dolls

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Roberts in December 2006

In 2001 Roberts moved to Los Angeles to study modern dance and appeared in various television commercials and music videos such as Counting Crows "Accidentally in Love", Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up", Jane's Addiction's "True Nature", Aaron Carter's "Oh Aaron" and "Not Too Young, Not Too Old" and Pink's "Trouble".[9] In 2003, Robin Antin saw her work in music videos and asked Roberts to join the Pussycat Dolls, along with Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thornton, Carmit Bachar, Kimberly Wyatt and Jessica Sutta.[10] The group achieved worldwide success with the singles "Don't Cha", "Stickwitu", "Buttons", and their multi-platinum debut album PCD (2005). During that time, Roberts also starred the dance film Make It Happen.[11] The group's second and final studio album Doll Domination (2008) contains hit singles "When I Grow Up", "I Hate This Part" and "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)".[12]

Despite their commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict due to the emphasis on Scherzinger and the subordinate treatment of the other members.[13] In February 2010, for these reasons, Roberts, Wyatt, Sutta, and Thornton had announced their departures from The Pussycat Dolls and the group disbanded.[14]

2010–2019: Television and Butterfly Effect

On September 28, 2010, Roberts released a solo promotional single, a cover of Percy Faith's 1959 hit single "A Summer Place".[15] Afterwards, Roberts took a two-year hiatus from her artistic career to follow guru Mata Amritanandamayi on spiritual retreats.[16] In 2012 she signed a record deal with independent label Cherry Red Records and released "Yesterday" as her debut solo single.[17] In November she competed in the British reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, airing on ITV, finishing as runner-up.[18] From 2013 to 2014 Roberts was judge of dance figure skating series Dancing on Ice.[19] In 2013 Roberts stabilized as television presenter, debuting in the variety show Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway from 2013 to 2016. In 2014 Roberts also presented WWE Legends' House.[18]

That year, Roberts signed with Metropolis London and released her debut solo album, Butterfly Effect, on September 1, 2014, only in UK.[20] The album served two singles: "Woman Up" and "Clockwork", which reached number 175 in UK and 18 in UK Indie Charts.[21][22] In 2016 she left Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and signed with NBC to present the travel and lifestyle program 1st Look, from 2016 to 2018.[18] The work was nominated for Emmy Awards as Best Travel and Adventure Program.[23] In 2018 Roberts competed in BBC dance show Strictly Come Dancing, in the United Kingdom, and finished as a finalist.[24] In 2019, Roberts became the showbiz correspondent of the Heart Breakfast, Heart Radio show hosted by Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden.[25] That following month, she made her West End debut, portraying Dawn, in the musical, Waitress.[26]

2019–present: The Pussycat Dolls reunion and more television

On November 29, 2019, The Pussycat Dolls confirmed their comeback and, on February 7, 2020, they released a new single, "React", with a live performance on the finale of The X Factor: Celebrity.[27][28][29] They announced a 36-date world tour, but plans were canceled due the worsening situation arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the group ended the reunion in 2021.[30]

In 2020 she appeared in Celebrity Gogglebox, a British docu-series about a groups of people watching and reacting to television programming during the week.[26] In 2022 she presented the British reality show The Real Dirty Dancing UK.[31] Since 2022 she presents the Netflix dance show Dance Monsters and Heart Radio show Heart 00's.[32][33]

Strictly Come Dancing scores

Purple score awarded by guest judge Alfonso Ribeiro.

Products and endorsements

Roberts has launched her first line of lingerie designed for the beach in Sydney, Australia.[34][35] In 2016, Roberts designed a women's shoe collection for spring/summer 2017 called ALLYN, after her middle name.[36]

Filmography

Film

Title Year Role Notes Ref.
Be Cool
2005
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Make It Happen
2008
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Television

Title Year Role Notes Ref.
DanceLife
2007
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Dance Your Ass Off
2010
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90210
2012
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I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Herself / Contestant Series 12 [41]
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2013–2016
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WWE Legends’ House 2014 Herself 10 episodes
The Jump
2015
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1st Look
2016–2017
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Let It Shine
2017
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Strictly Come Dancing
2018
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Celebrity Gogglebox
2020
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The Real Dirty Dancing
2021
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Dance Monsters
2022
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Radio

Year Title Roles Radio
2019–2021, 2023–present Heart Breakfast Correspondent Heart
2022–
present 		Heart 00s Presenter

Discography

Studio albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[50] 		UK
Indie
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Butterfly Effect 159 36

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[21] 		UK
Indie
[22] 		SCO
[52]
"Yesterday"[53] 2012 — — — Non-album single
"Clockwork" 2014 175 18 88 Butterfly Effect
"Woman Up" — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Promotional singles

Title Year Album
"A Summer Place"[54] 2010 Non-album single

Album appearances

List of album appearances, showing album name and year released
Title Year Other artists Album(s) Ref.
"Played" 2008 The Pussycat Dolls Doll DominationTemplate:Efn [55]

Music videos

Title Year Other artist(s) Director(s) Ref.
As a lead artist
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"Woman Up"
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Guest appearances
"Trouble" 2003 Pink Script error: No such module "sort".
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"Goodbye" 2015 Bobby Newberry
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Stage credits

Title Year Role Notes Ref.
Ant & Dec's Takeaway on Tour
2014
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Waitress
2019
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[26]
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Awards and nominations

Year Award Work Category Result Ref.
2007
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2018
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[23]
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Notes

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