Downtown Julie Brown Biography, Net Worth, Ethnicity, Age

Who is Downtown Julie Brown?

Julie Dorne Brown was born on August 27, 1963 in Bedfordshire, England, of Jamaican descent on her father’s side, and British through her mother. She is a radio personality, television personality and actress, best known for her work as a video jockey (VJ) and disc jockey (DJ) under the name Downtown Julie Brown. She has worked for the radio station SiriusXM and also had a long stint with MTV.

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Julie Brown’s Center Net Worth

As of early 2020, Downtown Julie Brown’s net worth is estimated to be over $5 million, earned through a successful career in the entertainment industry, working on television and radio programs since the early 1980s.

She has made guest appearances on several popular television and reality shows during her career.

Early life and the beginning of a career

While Julie was born in Bedfordshire, she and her family did not stay there long due to her father’s work with the Royal Air Force (RAF), not only in the UK but also in various locations around the world such as Singapore and the island nation of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. Eventually the family returned to the UK and settled in Bridgend, Wales.

At a young age, Julie developed a love for dancing and she was so skilled that she took part in several competitions.

Her biggest competition was the World Disco Dancing Championship in 1979, for which she qualified after winning the UK Championship. After that, her fame rose to the point that she was offered work on television, so she began her career as a children’s program presenter. One of her earliest projects was the “Crackerjack” show, which stayed with the program through the latter part of the show in the 1980s.

dance and music

Meanwhile, Brown also continued her dance career and became a member of the group Zoo, which appeared consistently on the program “Top of the Pops”, a music program in the UK with the best-selling songs every week.

This would somehow be her introduction to music show hosting because after her run in “Crackerjack” ended, she was then hired by the Music Box broadcaster as a host. The show is considered the pioneer of music television in the UK and was the equivalent of the British’s MTV.

After Music Box quit, she moved to the US in search of better opportunities, and her experience led to her being hired as a VJ for MTV. She started hosting the program “Club MTV”, which ran from the late 1980s to early 1990s. The show featured mostly dance music and was an attempt by MTV to introduce new VJs to the network, who carried over from their original five.

When she developed her name in the UK, many people mistook her for comedian Julie Brown, which basically led to MTV taking advantage of the situation and casting them in shows and live events together for an extra bit of humor.

During her time at MTV, she developed a catchphrase called “Wubba Wubba Wubba,” which she accidentally blurted out because it was the shirt worn by the man holding her cue cards. The tagline stuck and her time as a VJ for MTV was always identified with it.

Life after MTV

Following the end of her contract with MTV, Julie was then hired by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), where there was a shift from her usual work in music to more sports-oriented work, with one of the most recognized sports programming networks around the world. With ESPN she mainly did off-field interviews with athletes in American Football, and after a while she moved to Los Angeles and returned to the entertainment industry to be part of a gossip show for “E-entertainment”.

While working with E, she also ventured into radio work and became the host of the show “American Dance Traxx” for a year. The show was at one point one of the most well-known dance music radio programs in Los Angeles, featuring the most popular songs and some up and coming songs. The program was discontinued, although the international editions were still running for some time.

Acting, reality television and recent projects

While working on these projects, Julie also took on a few acting projects, mostly in small or cameo roles. One of her first professional acting projects was the movie “Spy Hard”, starring Leslie Nielsen and a parody of several popular spy movies of the time, mainly from the “James Bond” series.

She also made appearances on “Spring Break ’83” and “The Weird Al Show”. In the late 1990s, she had a supporting role in the comedy film “Ride”, then made a guest appearance in “Walker, Texas Ranger”, played Chuck Norris, following his character’s life as a member of the said force. Other projects she worked on over the next few years included “The Dog Whisperer,” “Hey Arnold!” and ‘The Eric Andre Show’.

At the same time, she also accepted an invitation to pose nude for a 1998 edition of “Playboy”, and was featured on the cover.

In recent years she returned to radio, working for the satellite radio network SiriusXM and hosting the shows “90s on 9” and “The Back in the Day Replay Countdown,” which focus on hits from the 1990s and decades, respectively. She also appeared on the “Wife Swap” program in the celebrity version, swapping with Lisa Leslie for the episode.

Private life

Julie met businessman and film producer Martin Schuemann in the late 1990s and they married in 2001. He is known as the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company Intermedia. The couple have a child together and the family lives in Marina del Rey, California.