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Josie d`Arby is a British actress and television presenter from Newport, South Wales.

She attended the Anna Scher Theatre School, and later the London School of Journalism.

D`Arby began a presenting career while still a student of acting at RADA. In the early 1990s she presented on Children`s BBC and then on SMart. She has since presented a number of high profile programmes including the Bigger Breakfast (a spinoff from The Big Breakfast) and Top of the Pops. Recently she has been a presenter on the daytime TV show, Loose Women, Just Up Your Street, a talent show on BBC Wales, and Inside Out West, a BBC regional programme in the West of England.

In 2003, she was a contestant in the first series of the Channel 4 reality TV show, The Games, where she came third and received a bronze medal. As a result of appearing on this, she later appeared on Back To Reality, where she came fifth. She appeared in The Games Champion of Champions, helping finalists from series 1 of The Games, to win this competition.

She has also worked in radio, as a co-presenter of The Steve Wright Show for BBC Radio 2.

D`Arby`s first high-profile acting role was as WPC Jodie Finn, in the BBC drama, Merseybeat from 2002-2003. From February 2005, she starred as Pealy Maghti, one of the presenters of the BBC`s spoof of 1980s science programming, Look Around You. D`Arby currently appears in the new Channel Four sketch series Spoons, and has recently made guest appearances in dramas, such as Casualty.

D`Arby has also appeared on the stage.

In summer 2006, she was a celebrity showjumper in the BBC`s Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses.

She is a celebrity ambassador for the British Red Cross.

She has also performed as a singer under the name Sephine Collins.