Katy Brand

Katherine "Katy" Frances Brand (born 13 January 1979) is an English actress, comedian and writer, known for her ITV2 series Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and for Comedy Lab Slap on Channel 4. Brand was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. She is an alumnus of St. Clement Danes School, where she was in the house of Clement. She graduated from Keble College, Oxford, where she studied theology. In 2008, she collaborated with Katherine Parkinson on a BBC Radio 4 series ca]lled Mouth Trap.[7]

Brand performed in Katy Brand's Big Ass Tour 2010.[8] She also competed on Let's Dance for Sport Relief in 2010, in which she danced to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)".[citation needed] Also in 2010, she made a guest appearance on the song "Stop Giving Me Verses" by The Hoosiers, which was an attempt to break the world record for longest single ever released.[citation needed]

In 2011, Brand took part in the BBC Learning project "Off By Heart Shakespeare", where she played the role of Titania from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and delivered a performance of the speech "Out of this wood do not desire to go".[9]

In 2011 she also guest hosted a Children in Need special episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.[citation needed]

In 2012 Brand announced she would be writing a book, Brenda Monk is Funny, to be crowd-funded through the publisher Unbound.[10]

In December of that year, she participated in the 2012 Christmas Special of the dance show, Strictly Come Dancing. Her partner was revealed as Anton du Beke, however they came second to bottom on the leaderboard.[11]