Downtown Julie Brown

Downtown Julie Brown
Brown in a USO show, 1999.
Born	Julie Dorne Brown (1959-08-27) 27 August 1959 (age 57) Bedfordshire, England
Occupation	Television personality, actress
Years active	1981–present
Spouse(s)	Martin Schuemann (m. 2001; 1 child)

Downtown Julie Brown (born Julie Dorne Brown; 27 August 1959), is a London-based actress, SiriusXM DJ and former MTV VJ. Brown is best known as the host of Club MTV (1987-1992).

Brown's father was Jamaican and her mother, British. Brown has three brothers and three sisters. Her father was in the Royal Air Force and she grew up on air force bases all around the world, including Singapore and Cyprus, before returning to the United Kingdom, where they settled in Bridgend, Wales. After winning the UK Disco Dancing Championships, she went on to win the World Disco Dancing Championship in 1979. Soon after, Brown began a career on British television as presenter and guest on a number of children's programmes, including the long-running show Crackerjack. Brown also appeared as a dancer on Top of the Pops in the early 1980s as a member of the dance troupe Zoo.

Brown became a presenter on the pan-European music channel Music Box and, after moving to the United States, eventually became an MTV VJ and went on to host the Club MTV show in the late 1980s. That show had a format similar to American Bandstand's but featured an exclusive lineup of dance music. From this came her catchphrase, "Wubba Wubba Wubba", after she accidentally read the T-shirt of a camera crewmember who was holding the cue cards while on live TV. MTV capitalized on the confusion between Downtown Julie Brown and comic actress Julie Brown by sending the pair together as correspondents for MTV News as well as by their "facing" each other on both their shows (Club MTV and Just Say Julie).

After leaving MTV, Brown went on to work for ESPN conducting on- and off-field interviews with football athletes. Brown then moved to Los Angeles to host the E Entertainment channel's gossip show. She also became the host of the syndicated radio program American Dance Traxx in March 1992 until its final broadcast in December 1993.