Tony Dortie facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Tony Dortie
Dortie in Malibu, California
Born	Clement Anthony Dortie July 1963 London, England
Occupation	Television presenter, writer, MC

Clement Anthony Dortie (born July 1963) is a British television personality and former presenter of Top of the Pops. He owns the production company Triple T Entertainment. Dortie has hosted programs for various entertainment networks, including the BBC, Music Box, ITV (Schofield's Quest), British Film Institute, MTV, BBC World Service, and 3e (Glam Slam).

Early life

Dortie was born in London and grew up in Lewes, Sussex.

At school, Dortie was a contributor to Music Box, where he started his on-screen broadcast career. Moving to work for Children's BBC UP2U, he then joined Mark Franklin on 3 October 1991 as one of the regular hosts of the new look Top of the Pops, a position he held until 1994.

Dortie set up his own production company, Djem Productions Ltd.

Television format creation

Dortie enjoyed his first breakthrough from creating and writing TV formats with the show, TXTC, which was broadcast first in Thailand, and then many other Asian countries. In 2004, TXTC was nominated for an Asian TV Award for best game show. Dortie next wrote Chain Reaction for Fox8 in Australia hosted by Mieke Buchan.

His writing skills caught the attention of Fremantle Media, and then 2waytraffic, where he enjoyed success with TXTC.

MC and Red Carpet host

A chance meeting with the UK team behind G-Unit led Dortie into becoming an MC and appearing regularly as the Saturday night host of Madnights at "Cirque at the Hippodrome", as well as touring internationally. .....

Under the banner of his new company Triple T Entertainment (referred to commonly as TTT), Dortie wrote and created Million Dollar Babes for ITV2. Broadcast Magazine Million Dollar Babes