Shona Kathryn Fraser (born 9 July 1975 in Newcastle, England) is a music journalist in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, having worked for the BBC, MTV, and WDR.^[1] She was a judge on Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol,^[1][2] and also represented Germany as a judge on World Idol.^{[citation needed]}