Jennie Lees

Jen was born in the usual way and has been alive ever since. She has done many things and will probably do more.

Some things you might want to know about Jennie:

Jen is partial to a nice bowl of soup.

Jen sometimes gets deeply depressed over the fact that she will never see a real dinosaur - not even a photograph. Seriously, she isn’t joking. The black cloud can last for days.

Jen fears that she is sometimes so clever that nobody understands a word she says.

Jen would give a tramp the shirt off her back. Again.

Jen has a serious aversion to having any fuss made of her on her birthday.

Jen admires the work of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Socrates, Sylvia Plath, Axl Rose, Germaine Greer, Elizabeth Wurtzel, John Lennon, Patrick Swayze, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese, Kathryn Bigelow and Zippy from Rainbow

Jen has a degree in Media.

Jen becomes besotted with certain books and films. (Current obsessions: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s books, Sylvester Stallone’s films.)

Jen is a southpaw.

Jen used to be the proud owner of a novelty pencil collection. She is not making this up in order to impress you. She has photographic evidence to support this statement.

Jen has had heart surgery.

Jen dislikes prejudice and relentless triviality.

Jen loves quick-wit, genuine benevolence and live broadcasting.

You can hear Jen sparring with Nick Hancock at Breakfast every weekday on Stray FM from 6am until 9am.

If you weren’t on’t the radio what would you be doing instead?
I’d most likely be working on my flux capacitor.

Here’s a chance to come clean. Is there anything you did as a kid that you wish to own up now?
Yes and no.

If someone gave you a tenner right now what would you do with it?
Buy a nice bowl of soup.

Who’s the most famous person you’ve met?
I’ve met quite a few well-known people. The encounter I enjoyed the most was probably with Ian Brown.

Top bunk or bottom bunk?
The top, of course. For obvious reasons.

What’s your first memory and how old were you?
My first memory is of me blowing out four candles on a birthday cake. So I must have been four years old. Either that or I was taking distinct liberties at somebody else’s fourth birthday party.

So you end on up on Come Dine With Me...what dish would you cook to bag yourself the £1000?
A nice bowl of soup.

Eeek, your house is burning down, what’s the thing you’d grab as you run out of the door?
My flux capacitor. Then I could go back in time, alter the space/time continuum and stop the fire from starting in the first place.

You’ve just fallen into a vat of toxic waste, which superpower would you like to have bestowed upon you?
The power to detect when I’m perilously close to falling into a vat of toxic waste.

At the end of a long day doing this radio malarkey, what do you do to relax?
I read ‘Prozac Nation whilst watching ‘Rocky’ and eating soup, of course.

Which would win in a fight, a polar bear or hippo? (The teacher would like to see your working!)
It depends what caused the brouhaha. The outcome of a conflict is not necessarily about the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

If you had to for the rest of your life, which would you give up, cheese or chocolate?
I’m sorry, I love both and can’t choose between the two, what are you going to do about it?

Go on then, 6 billion people could read this so this is your stage, tell us a joke (no pressure!)...
No.