[3] She was educated at Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow.
In recent years, Sarpong has presented other series, including Your Face or Mine?, a game show co-hosted with Jimmy Carr for E4; Dirty Laundry, an urban talk-show that was an original idea of Sarpong's; Playing It Straight, a dating game-show filmed in Mexico for Channel 4, and Sarpong has presented the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party and the Party In The Park.
Sarpong worked as an interviewer on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory show broadcast on TruTV.
Journalist Peter Hadfield criticized this claim as being unsupported by seismological records and scientific papers.
[6] In late 2013, Elton John performed a variation of his 1970 hit "Your Song" with the amended lyrics "You can tell everybody 'You're June Sarpong'" as an apparent reference to an in-joke between the pair from a charity event earlier that year.
On 7 January 2016, June made an emotional speech live on Loose Women, following the death of her brother.
In August 2014, Sarpong was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.
[8] In October 2015, she joined the board of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, lobbying for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union.
[10] Sarpong was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting and to charity[11] and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.