Russell worked for an insurance company and Coca-Cola among other roles before beginning her broadcasting career at York Hospital Radio.
In September 2008, she joined Absolute Radio[1] as the host of a weekend mid-morning show, which ran for around thirteen months.
During 2011, Russell also presented Back to the 80s, a weekly Saturday night show for the East Midlands regional radio station Gem 106.
[5] The pair joined sister station Gem 106 in 2016 to present a Saturday morning show.
In September 2017, it was announced Russell and Colerangle would leave Free Radio and join Gem full-time as presenters of the station's weekday breakfast show on Monday 16 October 2017, replacing Sam Pinkham and Amy Voce.