Colin Murray
Countdown Host
Mark Durden-Smith
Presenter
Mark has fronted reality, game and chat shows as well as sports coverage from European Tour golf to Spanish football and World Cup rugby.
Biography
Mark Durden-Smith is a sport and lifestyle presenter whose versatility has seen him front everything from sports coverage to reality contests, cookery programmes to morning magazine shows.
Well-known to sports fans, Mark has led ITV’s Premiership and World Cup rugby coverage, as well as anchoring their Boat Race broadcast. He followed Premiership coverage as it moved to Channel 5, whilst for Sky he’s presented European golf, international cricket, Spanish football, and the daily round-up Sky Sports Centre, as well as rugby. He also hosted Sky’s reality show The Match, which pitted celebrities against professionals in a football match.
Away from the sporting arena Mark has guest hosted This Morning and fronted Package Holidays Undercover and Wish You Were Here – Now and Then, as well as the reality show spin-offs I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here Now!, and Hell’s Kitchen Extra Portions. He’s also hosted game and panel shows for ITV and Sky 1.
Mark has presented the game show Freeze Out, the BBC London Radio Breakfast Show, The National Lottery’s Millionaire Manor, and Design Wars. He’s also hosted American Princess, a primetime reality show for NBC in the States, and written a regular column in the Metro.
‘Professional and humorous, he made the evening enjoyable’
Such an engaging and enthusiastic host for our virtual awards – a pleasure to work with.
Goes above and beyond by researching key members of the audience in advance to give that extra personal touch on the night. He brings a lovely charm and character to any event and is extremely easy to work with. Mark will take your technical script and add his own personal touch to ensure your event stands out from the crowd!
Very entertaining and had clearly done his homework. The audience loved him – he kept them involved and focused as well as being funny and witty. The fact he had researched speakers / nominees / sponsors etc beforehand was fantastic! We are seriously tempted to pre-book him for next year!
Mark was a fantastic host of our annual awards. He was very engaging and taken the time to prepare for the event and our business which meant he had an instant connection with our guests. A national treasure – as he calls himself!
A very intelligent, genuine, warm, friendly and wonderfully bonkers chap who we all loved. He did lot of advance research to ensure he fully understood the audience and this proved very funny on the night. Mark is the best awards host we have had in 30 years.
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