As this is the case for pretty much all TV anyway, the remit is soon extended to include English presenters who wish they were American and therefore talk with an odd accent.
For years, the most famous person to bear it was a wildly successful English TV presenter whose biggest draw was his anarchic take on Friday night telly.
The English television presenter Fearne Cotton keeps things casual in cheery off-shades, while the actress Charlotte Poutrel goes glamorous and the model Karolina Kurkova dazzles in floor-length silk.
In 2005 I received a proposal to join Al Jazeera English as presenter and correspondent.
Helen Chamberlain, an English television presenter was born in Street in 1967, Henry John Harry Patchch, known as "the Last Fighting Tommy" moved to Street in the early 1940s, he ran a plumbing company in the town until his retirement at age 65.
The English-Croatian presenter of football, business and medium-brow lifestyle TV programmes has now written perhaps 2007's most entertaining sports book, We Don't Know What We're Doing (Sphere £12.99, pp311).
Amid an eclectic mix of Western rock, hip-hop and dance music, young, English-speaking presenters host live phone-ins of mostly idle chit-chat.
Simon Schama is an English historian, TV presenter and author; @simon_schama.
He wrote the original play about David Frost's interviews with the disgraced US president and the eventual film version which starred Michael Sheen as the English journalist and presenter.
As Irish and Irish-American young professionals mingled at a cocktail reception in the lobby of Capitale, in Chinatown, O'Dowd, dressed in a slim-cut gray suit and sipping Irish whiskey, worked the room with his wife, the English writer and television presenter Dawn O'Porter.
