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Now living back in Australia, Jonathan Coleman has been credited as being one of Australia's most successful exports to the UK.

Coleman created a name for himself in the 80s through Simon Townsend's Wonder World and as one half of The Jono and Dano Show, a popular program on the Triple-M network.

Former host of the number one commercial breakfast show Jono and Harriet on Heart 106.2FM (Chrysalis Broadcasting) with more than 2.5 million listeners per week, LBC's weekend show on 97.3 and breakfast on London's BBC radio 94.9FM. On UK television, Jono appeared regularly on the UK breakfast TV show GMTV where he looks at new music releases.

Jono continues to record segments for GMTV now that he is back in Sydney.

Jono's UK television credits include -- Jonathan Coleman's Swing Shift (B Sky B), co-hosted Channel 5's Exclusive (similar to E! News) and Mixing It (Bazal Productions for Channel 5), Blind Taste for Carlton TV, This Morning (ITV), Breakfast TV (GMTV), Fit Club (ITV).

In Australia, Jono has been a regular guest as a UK correspondent for Australian television and radio since first arrived in the UK in 1990. For his last year in London he has presented the Global Notebook segment twice a week on Sunrise (Seven Network).

Since late 2004, Jono has been the host of the nationally syndicated weekly radio series My Generation for MCM Entertainment networking on 105 stations around Australia on the Gold Network every weekend. It is the second biggest syndicated show in Australia and will continue to grow in 2008 with Jono at the helm.

Having first started his professional life as a copywriter, Jono is a humorous writer and had a regular column as the UK Punch magazine's restaurant critic called 'Coleman's Bowls'. He also wrote Lad's Night In every Friday in the London Evening Standard for two years, wrote every Friday The Daily Star for 5 years. He remains a regularly contributor to OK! Magazine Australia and UK. Other writing credits include -- The Times Travel section, Decanter Magazine UK.

Jono and his family made the decision to return to Sydney in December 2006 after 16 years in London.

MCM and Jono came together in January 2007 to launch The Jonathan Coleman Experience with Julia Zemiro which started in air in the lunch shift and went to 26 stations around the Australian Radio Network. In 2008, the show has moved to the popular drive shift 5 - 7pm and continues to grow its network of stations.

On Australian Television, Jono has been both a UK correspondent and the movie reviewer for Sunrise on Seven over the past 3 years. He is now a weekly regular on Mornings with Kerri-Anne for Nine as well as the popular face of UKTV on PayTV presenting their Preview program.

Check out Jono's website at: www.jonocoleman.com

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Finding a personality big enough to complement Jono on The Jonathan Coleman Experience was a tough ask, but in Julia Zemiro he's found the perfect on-air partner.

The multi-talented performer and writer is known and loved by viewers as the host of the SBS TV show Rockwiz, and fans of 'Totally Full Frontal' remember with delight the more-than-20 characters she played in two seasons of the top-rating comedy series.

A French-born Australian and graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Julia has been a regular on Australian TV and film screens, twice picking up the Best Actress gong at Tropfest ('The Extra' and 'Muffled Love').

Julia's been improvising since 1986 with Sydney Theatresports and IMPRO Melbourne, culminating in the ultimate improvisation challenge: Spontaneous Broadway - a night of improvised musical comedy that had a sold out run at The Spiegeltent in Melbourne.

Julia has been a panellist and debater for Good News Week and her improvising skills have been consistently and successfully put to the test as a regular on the TV show Thank God You're Here.

Showing that she's more than just a pretty face, Julia also won the coveted title of 'Australia's Brainiest TV Star', and was a featured performer in Eurobeat, an original musical comedy based on the Eurovision Song Contest, as Bronya the Hostess from Bosnia.

With a line-up of big guests, big prizes and big laughs courtesy of Jono, Julia is delighted to now be co-hosting her first national radio program: The Jonathan Coleman Experience.