Donna Air (born August 2, 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English television presenter, singer and actress. She came to fame as an actress on the CBBC series Byker Grove and later became a presenter of several shows, including for a time, the Big Breakfast. She has also acted in an episode of BBC TV comedy Operation Good Guys. She has a reputation of being a vacuous blonde, not helped by her memorably asking Irish family group The Corrs how they met. She poked fun at this image by founding Airhead Productions.
Air appeared in the movie The Mummy Returns and has presented on MTV. She attended the Drama school First Act in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. She went along with Jill Halfpenny Ant and Dec (Famous Friends) and Dale Meeks. She is a former student of Gosforth High School.
She is engaged to Damien Aspinal, millionaire owner of Aspers (Entertainment eg Casinos etc), and is currently filming a British independent movie called Runners With Cars.
Bands
Byker Groove
In a similar way to that in which PJ and Duncan aka 'Ant and Dec' were spun off from BBC 1's teen soap Byker Grove, Byker Groove were a female vocal group from the series.
Crush
Crush were a development of the Byker Groove band but with only Donna Air and Jayni Hoy as members. They were signed to Telstar Records. Hoy later quit the duo after the first album, Teenage Kicks, was shelved in the UK by their record company, although it was released overseas. Luciana Caporaso was drafted as Hoy's replacement. Crush's sophomore album, Crush was essentially a dance remixed version of the first album, retaining vocals from Hoy on 8 of the 12 tracks.
