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Daniel James Osborne (born December 24th 1990) is a British television presenter and model who rose to fame when he won the tenth series of Big Brother in 2009. Following his success on the show, he has worked as a TV presenter for ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and BBC.

He is currently the co-host of The Voice UK alongside Emma Willis and will help E! UK launch E! News on January 5th 2015 as the weekday host.

2009-10, 2013-: Big Brother
On June 4th 2009, Osborne entered the Big Brother house for its ninth series alongside fifteen other contestants hoping to win £100,000. He was up for eviction five times during the series (in weeks 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10) with the week 7 eviction cancelled due to a housemate choosing the leave the show. Osborne came out to his family as bisexual during the show, kissing fellow contestant Charlie Drummond. On September 4th 2009, Osborne was named the winner of the series with 74.4% of the public vote, the highest ever voting proportion to win in Big Brother UK history. However due to rule breaking, the prize pot was reduced to £71,320.

In December 2009, Osborne was named the new presenter of E4 spin-off show Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth for the 2010 series of the show which launched on January 3rd 2010. He was successful in his new role, gaining support from TV critics and fans of the show. He would return for the civilian series of Big Brother later in 2010 but left four days before the end of the series. This was due to him being cast in the Ultimate Big Brother series which was to launch the same night as Big Brother 11 concluded. Main show host Davina McCall replaced Osborne for the final and Ultimate series. He came third in Ultimate Big Brother with 20.51% of the vote behind Nikki Grahame and winner Brian Dowling.

In 2011, Channel 5 approached Osborne to become the new host of Big Brother when they relaunched the show later that year. He turned down the offer and the job ultimately went to Brian Dowling. In 2013 however, he would replace Jamie East and Alice Levine as the co-presenter of spin-off Big Brother's Bit On The Side and its celebrity variant from Celebrity Big Brother 11 in January 2013. He has since hosted six series including two where he co-presented with AJ Odudu. His will return for Celebrity Big Brother 15 in January 2015.

ITV
In October 2010, Osborne joined This Morning as a rotating presenter of the Hub segment alongside Coleen Nolan, Samanthi Jayawardena and Matt Johnson. He generally presented Friday editions of the Hub before announcing his departure in June 2012. His final Hub appearance was on July 13th 2012.

In August 2011, Osborne joined Caroline Flack as the new co-presenter of The Xtra Factor. The pair were praised for their partnership and were signed for a second series beginning in 2012. Following this series, Osborne announced his departure from the show to work on other projects.

In July 2013, he would return to This Morning as the host of the Friday episodes during the Summer series. He hosted the show alongside Jenni Falconer in Week 1, 5 and 6 and Emma Bunton on weeks 2, 3 and 4. He was due to return for the 2014 summer show but pulled out due to personal reasons.

Other Work
In June 2011, Osborne joined Channel 5 magazine show ''OK! TV'' as one of it's entertainment reporters. In August 2011, he and Jenny Frost replaced Matt Johnson and Kate Walsh on the show due to falling viewing figures. The show would be cancelled in December 2011 for the same reason.

In September 2013, Osborne was announced as the new co-host of The Voice UK on BBC One alongside his Big Brother companion Emma Willis. He replaced Reggie Yates' role on the show for its third season which began in January 2014 and will both return for the 2015 series which begins on January 10th 2015.

He continued to work for the BBC in 2014, fronting the three part Dan Takes On... series which explored pornography, the perfect body and love. Osborne has since confirmed a second series of the show will be recorded in 2015.

In October 2014, it was confirmed that a UK version of E! would begin to air in the UK from January 5th 2015. The channel will air the US feed until 7pm when E! UK takes over for six hours of its own programming. Osborne was considered a face of the new brand and will host the UK version of E! News on weekdays from the launch day.