Van Outen was innate Denise Outen (a Van was added late to give her title an interesting twist, & besides to acknowledge her Dutch roots) within Basildon, Essex. She attended a Sylvia Young Theatre School and as a youngster appeared in the chorus of Les Misérables.

As the stripling she experienced brief roles in a total of television dramas including Kappatoo. She joined A Heavy Breakfast as a weather condition & travel newsman withwithin 1995 & landed a presenting role in 1997. It proved to exist as her large breakthrough. Her feisty personality & sexy wear match swell against a quickly wit of Johnny Vaughan and together they recovered audience numbers to touching record levels. Van Outen gathered numbers of male fans.

She took a break from either presenting a indicate towards the prevent of 1999 however returned witharound 2000 for a farther season-long stint in an attempt to boost the ratings that experienced tailed bump off resulting her departure.

Inside 1998 she appeared in the sitcom Baby in the Wood alongside Karl Howman and Samantha Janus. A indicate's reviews were on the unfortunate side. The brilliantly spot wwhen her role as Jill around the racy TV version of the kids's dumb show Jack and the Beanstalk.

Van Outen hwhen likewise appeared inside film; as Maureen in the crime comedy Love, Honour and Obey and in the low-low-keyed release Tube Tales.

Van Outen number 1 played Roxie Hart on a stage at the Adelphi Theatre inside the West End of London in April 2001. the marriage of a sexy indicate sustaining the equally raunchy Van Outen proved a hit using theatre-theatergoer, selling out for the entireity of her Twenty week process. Despite existence unknown in the United States, Van Outen reprised her role in Broadway for 5 weeks in the spring of 2002. She returned to the London version of the indicate inside late April 2002.

Extra recently, within summertime 2005 Van Outen joined a cast of the constituted ITV sentimental drama "Where the Heart is" when one of a lead characters.

Van Outen's personalized life has been subjected to the sharply glare of the British tabloid media. She dated Jamiroquai lead singer Jay Kay in the late 1990s. It were reported to become on the verge of marriage, however split higher around 2001. When of 2003, she was reported to exist as tied to lap dance club creator Richard Traviss, however split higher sustaining him inside Can 2005 when trine years. She moved away from a Marylebone pad it shared & into her have flat within in the north London.

Above a summertime of 2005 Van Outen co-presented ITV1's This Morning with Richard Bacon.