Ore Oduba is a British television and radio presenter and musical theatre actor. He is best known for winning the fourteenth series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2016. In 2018 he hosted the game show And They’re Off! in aid of Sport Relief. In 2019 he began his musical theatre career, starring in the UK Tour of Grease.
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Ore Oduba is a British television and radio presenter and musical theatre actor. He is best known for winning the fourteenth series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2016. He presented the BBC children’s news programme Newsround from 2008 until 2013. In 2018 he hosted the game show And They’re Off! in aid of Sport Relief. In 2019 he began his musical theatre career, starring in the UK Tour of Grease. He also starred alongside Jason Manford in Curtains the Musical. He made his West End debut in January 2020. Oduba was born in London to Nigerian parents. He was educated at Dumpton School, then Canford School, a co-educational independent school for both boarding and day pupils in the village of Canford Magna, near to the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, in southwest England.
He studied Sports Science and Social Science at Loughborough University and graduated in 2008. He formerly presented the sport for BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 5 Live. In the lead up to the 2012 Summer Olympics Oduba presented a programme called Ultimate Sports Day for CBBC. He has also co-presents live cinema relays from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with former ballerina Darcey Bussell. In November 2016, Oduba guest presented an episode of This Morning with Holly Willoughby on ITV.
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