Magenta Devine
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy datesTemplate:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Magenta Devine (born Kim Taylor;[1][2] 4 November 1957 – 6 March 2019)[3] was a British television presenter,[1] journalist[4] and music promoter[5] best known for presenting the travel programme Rough Guide and youth programme Reportage on BBC2 in the 1990s.[6][3] She later presented Young, Gifted and Broke for ITV.[7][3]
Career
Devine originally worked for Tony Brainsby, a publicist for Queen, Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake.[8] While still living with boyfriend (ex-Generation X bassist) Tony James, she became the music promoter for James's new band Sigue Sigue Sputnik.[9] She began her television career in 1986 as a presenter of BBC Wales's pop music show Juice.[10] Following her breakup with James, producer Janet Street-Porter booked Devine to be a presenter on Channel 4's youth programme Network 7.[3][9][11] She then moved after Street-Porter to BBC2 to present DEF II, of which Rough Guide was a feature before it became a separate programme.[3][9]
Devine appeared on Richard & Judy in 2004, and on Extreme Celebrity Detox in 2005.[4] Her voice-over work included advertisements for Peugeot, Motorola, Toyota, and Sea France.[12] In 2006, Devine fronted an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) campaign that urged consumers in the travel market to book with a member of Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA).[13] In 2001, she narrated a BBC Four programme, The New Romantics – A Fine Romance, on the New Romantic movement.[7][14]
Apart from being a television presenter, she also was UN Goodwill Ambassador in 1998, and campaigned for women's rights.[4]
Later life and death
Devine sought treatment in the 1990s for heroin addiction and depression.[3][9] In 2003, she was declared bankrupt by London's High Court.[12]
Devine died on 6 March 2019, after a short illness for which she was undergoing treatment at a central London hospital. She was 61 years old.[9]
Television programmes
- BBC Wales's pop music show Juice, presenter[10]
- Channel 4's youth programme Network 7 (1987)[3][7][9][11]
- BBC2's DEF II[3][15]
- BBC2's Rough Guides to the World[3][7][9][13]
- BBC2's Reportage (1988—94)[16]Template:Better source needed
- Young, Gifted and Broke ITV documentary series[3][7][9]
- This Morning with Richard & Judy (1996) interviewee[7]
- Extreme Celebrity Detox (2005)[7][4]
- BBC Four programme The New Romantics – A Fine Romance (2001) on the New Romantic movement as narrator[7][14]
- Big Mouth (2005), an aftershow of Big Brother, as guest panellist[7][4]
References
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External links
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- Magenta Devine – a life in pictures at The Guardian