VIDEO TURNED RADIO STAR

MTV presenter has barely aged a day 30 years after hosting top music show

The iconic eighties star is now showcasing her music talents as a radio host

TV personality and actress Downtown Julie Brown was a regular face in the eighties and nineties with her successful music show Club MTV.

And the Bedfordshire-born star, who hosted the successful music show from 1987 to 1992, has barely aged since then.

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TV host Downtown Julie Brown barely looks a day over 80s and 90s music TV show fameCredit: Getty
Julie was an MTV VJ on hit TV music show Club MTV which ran from 1987 until 1992Credit: MTV

Julie, 60, who is better known as Downtown Julie Brown, was a regular face in the UK and stateside due to the global reach and popularity of the youth-centred show.

She appears to be defying the ageing process in a series of recent Instagram snaps where the talented TV host appears to be , looking not a day older than her music TV heyday.

Prior to working in America, the ageless star appeared as a dancer on BBC's Top of the Pops.

Julie, who is off Jamaican and English descent, grew up with six siblings, and a father who was in the Royal Air Force.

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This led to her being being brought up around the world in various air force bases, including Cyprus and Singapore. The family eventually settled back in Bridgend, Wales.

JULIE'S EARLY BEGINNINGS

In the early 80s Julie balanced her presenting duties with a thriving dance careerCredit: Getty

Julie's career took off after winning the UK Disco Dancing Championships, back in 1979.

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Shortly after winning the competition, she kicked off her UK presenting career the following year as a guest presenter on kids show Crackerjack!.

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She spent the early 80s balancing her presenting career with dancing in dance troupe Zoo, on trailblazing BBC show: Top of the Pops.

By the mid-80s, she would leave TOTP, to present the pan-European music channel Music Box, before moving to the USA to become an MTV VJ [video jockey] in 1987, hosting Club MTV for five years.

The new MTV gig turned Julie into a household name, and along with a handful of Black British acts including Billy Ocean, 74, and reggae band Musical Youth, she would become one of the first Black British persons to be seen on MTV.

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