Lauren Laverne (born Lauren Gofton on 28 April 1978 in Sunderland, United Kingdom) is a disc jockey, television presenter and former singer. Biography Her father Leslie Gofton, is a retired Newcastle University lecturer.http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/features/tm_objectid=16483659&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=taking-it-all-in-her-stride-name_page.html Music Lauren first rose to prominence as the singer of the Sunderland based teen rock band Kenickie in 1995, achieving four top 40 hits and a top ten album. Laverne became just as famous for her funny and acerbic interview style, making her a popular contestant on Never Mind The Buzzcocks and memorably referring to contemporaneous girl-pop outfit the Spice Girls as "Tory scum" .In 2000 she brought out a solo EP, Take These Flowers Away, contributed a version of In The Bleak Midwinter to Xfm London's It's A Cool Cool Christmas album, played at the Reading Festival and made the top 20 for the only time in her s

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