OLIVER
Miquita

• 1. Career

Miquita Billie Alexandra Oliver is a British television presenter and radio personality. With Simon Amstell, she co-hosted Channel 4's Popworld from 2001 to 2006. She went on to present on T4 from 2006 to 2010, as well as having her own show, The Month With Miquita, on 4Music. Oliver has also worked in radio, hosting shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra. In April/May 2015, she took part in a four-part series, 24 Hours in the Past, as herself.

Career

In 2001, aged 16, she became presenter of the Channel 4 music show Popworld, co-presenting with Simon Amstell. The pair were known for employing a great deal of humour in interviews. They left the show in 2006, but Oliver continued to present the T4 strand.

Oliver and Amstell survived the 2004 Indian Ocean Tidal Wave while on holiday together in Thailand. She has since participated in disaster relief charity events.

After an incident in mid-2010 in which Oliver was overheard insulting singer Kesha behind her back by Kesha's management, Oliver was suspended from T4 for six weeks and subsequently her contract was not renewed. She recorded her last T4 in December 2010.

Oliver sang on The Slits' 2006 EP Revenge of the Killer Slits.

She has hosted shows on both BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, notably covering for Sara Cox and Spoony. She left her early morning show Oneclick to focus on TV projects. In an interview with Heat magazine, Oliver said that she was sacked from BBC Radio 1 following a comment she made in an interview with NME magazine about Fearne Cotton, calling her a "devil woman".

Oliver made a brief appearance in May 2007 on the BBC programme Neneh & Andi Dish It Up – presented by her mother Andi and Neneh Cherry – and has also made appearances on political talk show This Week, on 25 June 2009 and 17 December 2009. In March 2010, Oliver made a programme for Channel 4's T4 called Miquita's Oliver. She was set the challenge of starting a one-off urban production of the classic musical Oliver! from scratch. She had to cast it, script it and then direct it. The finished product was performed at the Hackney Empire to surprising critical acclaim.