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Lauren Layfield

Lauren Layfield

Acting

Biography

Lauren Layfield is an English television and radio presenter and journalist who works mainly for CBBC and Capital FM. Layfield joined CBBC continuity in September 2015, at the end of the one-off TV special Hacker's Birthday Bash: 30 Years of Children's BBC, going on to co-host design series, The Dengineers with Mark Wright. In April 2017, Wright left and was replaced with Joe Tracini. In January 2016, Layfield joined All Over the Place and became a co-host with Ed Petrie. Layfield has made one-off appearances in game shows Ultimate Brain and Celebrity Mastermind and four appearances in the panel show The Dog Ate My Homework. In 2017 Lauren become the new host of music show The Playlist She presented for "Match of the Day spin-off show, MOTD Kickabout. In July 2018, she began covering weekend shows on Capital FM. Layfield has written for the Top of the Pops magazine. From 7th January 2019, She started to present the Capital Early Breakfast show. She and Rob Howard are the main relief for the Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.

Known For

Hacker Time
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Hacker Time is a British children's television show on CBBC starring Hacker T. Dog with one or more famous celebrities such as Anton du Beke and Dani Harmer. The show follows the same theme of Hacker tricking the celebrity/s into his studio, interviewing them, and then watching sketches and outtakes from other programmes. Each episode is approximately 30 minutes long. The theme song and ending songs are sung by Phil Fletcher who is Hacker T. Dog's puppeteer and voice actor. The show first aired in September 2011 and was rated #10 in the Weekly Top 10 Programmes for the week of 3–9 October 2011. The second series of Hacker Time began airing on 6 August 2012 and instead of the guests being tricked onto the show, Hacker sends out Wilf and Herman to kidnap them and get them to come onto the show. The third series of the show started on 22 July 2013 where Derek books better guests than Hacker has in mind.

Hacker Time

2011Series