Cotton began her career in children's television but has in recent years been given higher profile roles presenting events such as Live 8 and the results for the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as American show "The Guinness Book of Records - Live".

Cotton began having ballet lessons from the age of five and went to weekend drama school at ten. After being discovered in a nationwide talent search, she began her presenting career in 1998, at the age of 16, with early morning GMTV children's programme The Disney Club and later Diggit with Paul 'Des' Ballard. She soon found herself fronting several children's programmes for CITV, including Draw Read more...

In 2003 Cotton started presenting Top of the Pops:Saturday (later called Top of the Pops: Reloaded) with her The Saturday Show co-presenter, Simon Grant, which then later became Sam and Mark from Pop Idol and JK and Joel.

From 2004 to 2006 Cotton was the main presenter of Top Of The Pops, which she co-presented with Reggie Yates each week until the show was moved from Friday nights on BBC Read more...