Alison Curtis

The Last Splash and, later, The Alison Curtis Show, earned Curtis her three Best DJ Meteor nominations, though she narrowly lost out on the first two occasions to her Today FM colleague Ray D'Arcy and lost again in 2009, this time to her Today FM colleague Ray Foley. Curtis has written for Hot Press.

She is married to Anton Hegarty, the former bassist for Future Kings of Spain with whom she has a daughter.

Early life Curtis was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, but spent her formative years in Toronto. She graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours BA in Anthropology. She also served as the M.C./ master of ceremonies for the main awards ceremony for the Choice Music Prize before she was replaced by fellow Today FM colleague, Paul McLoone who from March 2012 to March or November 2016 served as M.C. for the prize ceremony of the Choice Music Prize with the Choice Music Prize later moving to be broadcast on RTE 2FM from 2017 onwards.

She also presented and produced The Last Splash on Sunday nights, which initially had 7,000 listeners; this increased over time to 40,000. On 22 December 2008, based upon listener suggestions from the previous three weeks, they compiled a "time capsule" for 2008, containing the top ten items representing the twelve months of the year. A Valentine's Day special of the show took place at Whelan's Upstairs on 12 February 2009, featuring music from Duke Special, One Day International and Ann Scott.

Personal life Curtis has one sibling, her twin sister Karen, a social worker in Canada. Her favourite Irish bands include Fight Like Apes, who she describes as "really talented... kind of rocky and metallic and their front girl is extremely watchable, almost going into Debbie Harry territory" and Hooray for Humans from Cork, who, according to Curtis, "are really cute, very poppy, almost Arcade Fire in the way they shout lyrics". Curtis was nominated in the Best National DJ category again in 2009. She lost to another Today FM colleague, Ray Foley, on this occasion.