Katherine Ryan to host The UK Licensing Awards

Comedian and TV presenter to take the helm of industry’s big night on September 12.

Stand up comedian and TV presenter Katherine Ryan is to host The UK Licensing Awards next month.

Katherine (pictured) will take the helm in front of 1,400 industry professionals, who will gather in The Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Tuesday September 12 to find out this year’s winners.

Katherine is a regular on popular panel shows including Live At The Apollo, Would I Lie to You?, A League of Their Own and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

Her recent factual entertainment series How’d You Get So Rich? was a hit on Channel 4, while she also co-hosted Your Face or Mine with Jimmy Carr for Comedy Central.

In addition, Katherine is only the second British-based comedian to have a Netflix Original Comedy Special released globally, Katherine Ryan: In Trouble which was filmed at Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo in February.

Tickets for The Licensing Awards are available from Createvents on 01183 340085 or email clare@createvents.co.uk.

Over 1,400 retailers, licensees and industry suppliers are set to attend this year’s big event. Following the awards, the party will continue with the After Bar Bar at Groovy Wonderland, backed by PowerStation Studios.

For the Product finalists, simply click here.

To find out the nominations in the Property categories, click here.

For the Retail categories, click here.

Finally, to find out who made the shortlist for Best Licensed Marketing Communication, click here.

The headline sponsor of The Licensing Awards 2017 is Brand Licensing Europe and the awards are officially supported by LIMA.

You can keep up to date with everything to do with The Licensing Awards on Twitter – simply follow @LicensingAwards and don’t forget to use #LicensingAwards 17 in your tweets.

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