Vicki Blight

{{Short description|Welsh radio presenter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox presenter | name = Vicki Blight | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | station = Virgin Radio UK | prevshow = Red Dragon FM, Heart 106, Century FM, BBC Radio 1, Absolute Radio, BBC Radio Wales | spouse(s) = | children = }}

'''Victoria Blight''' is a radio DJ based in the United Kingdom. Blight has presented shows on Heart 106, a regional radio station broadcast to the East Midlands, Absolute Radio, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Wales.<ref>http://bbc.ask-adders.com/series/vicki+blight/, BBC listings. Retrieved 2008-01-03.</ref> The name Blight is of Cornish origin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gould.com.au/Cornish-Family-Names-p/thp009.htm |title=Cornish Family Names |access-date=2010-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820113233/http://www.gould.com.au/Cornish-Family-Names-p/thp009.htm |archive-date=2010-08-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Early radio career==

Vicki Blight was involved in student radio at Cardiff University, where she went on to win Best Female Presenter at the Radio 1 Student Radio Award in 2002.<ref name="Vicki Blight">{{Cite web|url=http://www.wisebuddah.com/talent/roster/vicki_blight.aspx|title=Wisebuddah|website=www.wisebuddah.com}}</ref>

From there, she became a presenter on Red Dragon FM, a commercial radio station based in South Wales, in 2003. After graduating, she joined independent station Century FM.<ref name="Vicki Blight"/>

==Heart 106==

Vicki Blight has presented various shows on Nottingham-based Heart 106, including a weekday afternoon slot and a topical phone-in show.

She has additionally presented an overnight slot and a weekend slot on the station, and, in under a year, she became the co-presenter of the breakfast show.<ref name="Vicki Blight"/>

==BBC Radio 1== In 2007, Blight was awarded with the Friday Early Breakfast slot on the station, and presented the slot for a month.

She was rumoured to be the new Radio 1 Surgery presenter on BBC Radio 1;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=655408|title=vicki blight on radio 1 - Radio - Digital Spy Forums|website=Digital Spy }}</ref> these rumours have since been proved false when Kelly Osbourne was unveiled as the new presenter in September 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/media/a75216/kelly-osbourne-joins-radio-1/|title=Kelly Osbourne joins Radio 1|first=Joanne|last=Oatts|date=6 September 2007|work=Digital Spy}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hx1k3l ''Vicki Blight''] (BBC Radio Bristol)

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