Jeremy Mansfield
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15 August 1963
Jeremy Mansfield | |
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| Born | Robert Jeremy Mansfield 15 August 1963 |
| Died | 31 October 2022 (aged 59) |
| Other names | Jem Jerome |
| Education | Kingswood College |
| Alma mater | Rhodes University |
| Occupation | Radio presenter |
| Known for | Radio presenting, television presenting |
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| Children | Gabriella |
Robert Jeremy Clayton Mansfield (15 August 1963 – 31 October 2022) was a South African radio and television celebrity. He worked on numerous radio stations as a presenter, and also presented numerous television shows and inserts for popular television magazine programs.
Mansfield was born in Grahamstown, South Africa.[1] He attended school at Kingswood College. He remained in Grahamstown attending Rhodes University, where he studied speech, drama and journalism.[1]
Media career
Radio
In 1985, while at university, he started working for the Durban-based radio station Capital Radio 604.[1] During the same year, he was awarded the AA Vita Award as The Most Promising Young South African Actor.[2] In 1990, Mansfield left Capital Radio (then broadcasting from Johannesburg). He was recruited to work for Super Sport on M-Net and was requested to do sport on the John Berks show on the Primedia-owned 702 Talk Radio.[3]
Mansfield's popularity continued to grow, and in 1993, he was appointed as a regular presenter of 702's Saturday Afternoon magazine program.[1] In 1995, Mansfield took over hosting of the afternoon show.[1]
In 1997, Mansfield moved to 702 Talk Radio's sister station 94.7 Highveld Stereo where he created and hosted the hugely popular weekday breakfast show, The Rude Awakening which at its peak was the most commercially successful show in southern Africa with over 1.5 million listeners.[1] In 2009, he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and received six months of medical treatment.[1] In June 2010, Mansfield announced he would be leaving the show. He hosted his last show on Monday 12 July 2010.[4][5]
Jeremy Mansfield returned to radio in November 2018 as the host of the breakfast show, "Mansfield in the Morning", on community radio station, Hot 91.9fm. His show changed its name to Joburg's Biggest Breakfast Show and Mansfield left after personal issues.
Television and film
In the mid-1990s, Mansfield started appearing as a features contributor and guest presenter on South African Pay television channels M-Net for Front Row and SuperSport. In 1998 he left the channel and started presenting A Word or 2,[6][7] on SABC 2. The show ran for 10 seasons.
In 2005, Mansfield presented the M-Net comedy show Laugh Out Loud for two seasons.
In 2010, Mansfield was cast in Disney's local release of Toy Story 3 as the voice of Lifer.[8]
In 2010, Mansfield hosted his own weekly finance show, Mansfield's Moneysense on CNBC Africa.[9]
Mansfield presented Mansfield2day on the YouTube channel of the same name.
CDs, books, tableware
Mansfield released five CDs containing characters he created on-air, humorous stories and songs (most of which he wrote himself) poking fun at many South African personalities and situations.
Mansfield leant his name to a number of joke books, of which Vrot Jokes (ISBN 978-1-86872-335-5) is a South African bestseller.
With his wife, Jacqui, wrote the multi award-winning contemporary cookbook titled Zhoozsh! (ISBN 978-1-77007-785-0) in February 2009. It won over seven awards including Best Cook Book in South Africa and Third Best Cook Book in the World at the Gourmand Awards. Their second cookbook, Zhoozsh! Faking It (ISBN 9781770078659) is also an award-winner. Both books are best-sellers and resulted in their own flatware range of tableware, Zhoozsh, sold through home decor stores.
