The tastemakers included radio DJs and producers, TV presenters and producers, newspaper critics, magazine and website editors and respected bloggers.

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He told housemates afterwards he suspected he was being "attacked" by MPs over his presence in the show, after comments made by the TV presenters.

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The diverse judging panel includes TV presenters Ruby Wax and Dermot O'Leary, comedian and actress Nina Wadia, advertising boss Matthew Freud and former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade.

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He defected to ITV in 1982 to become one of the original "famous five" presenters on breakfast station TV-am.

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And, like last year, TV and movie stars fill the ranks of the presenters.

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Because they are nervous, many presenters do not gesture when they are in front of an audience or a TV camera.

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Children's science TV's Johnny Ball is quite right when he says that, "very few scientists are good presenters, and very few presenters happen to be scientists", but we certainly have more of them this side of the millennium.

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