Dionne 'London' Hughes

London Hughes (born 1989) is a British comedian, television writer and presenter. She wrote and starred in Laughter Shock, a comedy for the BBC which piloted in 2010. Early life London Dionne Micha Stacey Stephanie Estina Knibbs-Hughes was born in Thornton Heath, South London in England. Her mother is of Jamaican and Cuban ancestry, while her father is of Puerto Rican, Spanish and Nigerian ancestry. Her great grandfather was Enos Knibbs. When she was younger, she spent most of her spare time working on new routines with a dance crew. Her family moved to Brighton when she was aged 14. Career Hughes started her television career presenting daytime shows on adult TV station Babestation, before moving on to presenting the morning show for CBBC for almost two years. In that time she also presented live links on BBC One and BBC Two and made regular appearances on Blue Peter and had a presenter role in children's show All Over the Place alongside Ed Petrie as well as voicing characters for CBBC's comedy, Big Babies. As a comedian, she initially used the stage name "Miss London", changing it to "Miss London Hughes" and eventually to "London Hughes" to avoid confusion with the regional beauty pageant Miss London. Hughes won the 2009 Funny Women Award at the Comedy Store (London), against competition from Eve Webster and Jo Selby. She has appeared on children's television such as Series 1–5 of CITV's weekend breakfast show, Scrambled! Pre-recorded, Scrambled! is a mixture of chat, games and comedy sketches with the presenters interlinking between shows in the CITV schedule. Hughes departed the show in 2018, and the series proper came to an end in 2021, after 7 years.