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June Sarpong
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June Sarpong MBE (born 31 May 1977) is a former MTV UK & Ireland presenter (MTV Dance Floor Chart) and as the one of the female faces of Channel 4’s Sunday morning strand T4 for the last six years, June interviewed Tony Blair for a T4 special, When Tony Met June which aired in January 2005. She also runs her own production company, Lipgloss Productions. Projects in development include a sitcom and a programme on climate change.
T4 has become one of Channel 4’s long lasting home grown series. Its guests have included Sir Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Black Eyed Peas, Will Smith and Nicole Kidman.
In recent years, June has also presented many other series including Your Face Or Mine?, a game show co-hosted with Jimmy Carr for E4; Dirty Laundry, an urban talk-show which was an original idea of June’s; Playing It Straight, a dating game-show filmed in Mexico for Channel 4, and June has presented the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party and the Party In The Park. June is a regular at the MOBO Awards and has presented them for three years in a row. She has also appeared on BBC Television’s Question Time and Have I Got News For You. She also has appeared on the programme, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and introduced reports on youth culture for This Week.
June is an ambassador for The Prince's Trust and also campaigns for the Make Poverty History movement – in April 2005 she visited Ghana to make a film for Make Poverty History. She also hosted the major Make Poverty History event in London’s Trafalgar Square in summer 2005 on behalf of Nelson Mandela and Sir Bob Geldof.
June's brother is Sam Sarpong, an actor and host of MTV's Yo Mamma.
At the age of twenty nine and after six years as a broadcaster, she was controversially awarded an MBE by the Labour party in the 2007 New Year Honours List for "services to broadcasting and charity".
June dated the Labour Minister for Culture (Department for Culture, Media and Sport), David Lammy, for a number of years[citation needed].
