Bio

Ortis Deley; British TV presenter, radio DJ and actor. After 15 years of television presenting Ortis has become a familiar and popular choice.

Currently a much loved presenter on Five’s flagship programme, The Gadget Show. This is a natural role for Ortis seeing as he has always been obsessed with gadgets and gizmos alike.

Ortis has filmed some reports for BBC1’s The One Show, as well as appearing on GMTV as the gadget expert. He has recently hosted his own dating show The Love Quest for Facebook and other social networking sites. Ortis has been signed up to present his own radio show the Sunday breakfast for Choice FM London.

Ortis can count among his recent shows a new series of Sorcerer’s Apprentice for BBC1, CBBC’s SM:ART and Best of Friends, the narration of CBBC nature programme, Wild Tales, and Today on 3 for the 3 Network.

Ortis began his career presenting shows for LWT, then got spotted and was the main host for Trouble TV before progressing on to BBC1, hosting the popular children’s Saturday morning show Live and Kicking, alongside Why 5, Making It and Short Change. From this he went on to present various CBBC shows including X-perimental which was perfect for him with his science background.

Ortis has a BSc (Hons) degree in Pharmacy which helped him win the role of presenting a one-off special for Tomorrow’s World and also guest presenting on Watchdog for BBC1.

Being passionate about all types of sport he was in his element when asked to present his own sports show for BBC’s Five Live interviewing the athletes as they prepared for the Sydney Olympics, following on from this success Ortis went to Athens to follow Great Britain’s Paralympics basketball team for CBBC’s Short Change.

From his vast presenting experience he is often asked to host award ceremonies, such as The People’s Choice Black Music Awards for Five, Smash Hits and the British Academy Children’s Film and Television Awards for BBC. For this, he was also nominated twice as Best Presenter.

Not limited to television presenting, as an actor, Ortis was seen in a cameo role in the feature film Derailed alongside Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, he also played a featured role in the British cult movie Kidulthood.