45 Facts About Alexander Armstrong

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Alexander Armstrong is the host of the BBC One game show Pointless, as well as the morning show on Classic FM.

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Alexander Armstrong is one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller.

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Alexander Armstrong is known as the voice of Mr Smith, Sarah Jane Smith's alien supercomputer in The Sarah Jane Adventures and the series 4 two-part finale of Doctor Who.

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Alexander Armstrong is a bass-baritone and has released three studio albums.

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Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, on 2 March 1970, the youngest of three children, to physician Henry Angus Armstrong and Emma Virginia Peronnet.

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Alexander Armstrong was educated at Mowden Hall School in Stocksfield, Northumberland, and St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh, where he was a chorister at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral from the ages of 11 to 13.

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Alexander Armstrong attended Durham School and Trinity College, Cambridge, on music scholarships.

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8.

At Cambridge, Alexander Armstrong studied English, receiving a third-class degree, and sang bass baritone as a choral scholar with the college choir.

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Alexander Armstrong joined the Footlights in his final year as part of the writing team for the 1992 revue and was Spooks creator David Wolstencroft's comedy partner.

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Alexander Armstrong was eventually introduced to Ben Miller, who had moved to London, through Jez Butterworth.

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Alexander Armstrong renewed his partnership with Miller for the award-winning The Alexander Armstrong and Miller Show in 2007.

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Alexander Armstrong appeared in BBC Radio 4's The Very World of Milton Jones, broadcast between 1998 and 2001.

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Alexander Armstrong narrated the animated cartoon series The Big Knights in 1999; it first appeared on BBC1 that Christmas.

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Between early 2000 and early 2001, Alexander Armstrong starred as a misanthropic, animal-hating vet in the BBC One sitcom Beast, and he has been the star of a series of TV commercials for Pimm's.

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On BBC Radio 4, Alexander Armstrong played John Weak in the office sitcom Weak at the Top.

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Alexander Armstrong played Martin Baine-Jones for the Times Online's Timeghost podcast.

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Between September and November 2010, Alexander Armstrong took The Alexander Armstrong and Miller Show on tour in the UK, completing 62 dates.

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On 1 September 2006, Alexander Armstrong was chairman of the short-lived Channel 4 panel show Best of the Worst which featured team captains David Mitchell and Johnny Vaughan.

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Alexander Armstrong has been a frequent guest host on the BBC's satirical Have I Got News for You, having appeared 32 times; he has, to date, made the most appearances of any guest, whether as host or panelist.

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Alexander Armstrong has been the presenter of the BBC One game show Pointless with former university friend Richard Osman since it began in 2009.

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Alexander Armstrong presented a documentary, Alexander Armstrong's Very British Holiday, for the BBC on 8 November 2009 about the history of the "great British summer holiday" and his attempts to explore its modern version.

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On 30 May 2011, Armstrong hosted the pilot for a new panel show, Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask for Dave with Dave Lamb, Katy Brand, Griff Rhys Jones and Robert Webb.

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In July 2011, Alexander Armstrong became a co-presenter on BBC One's The Great British Weather.

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In September of 2014, it was announced that Alexander Armstrong would succeed David Jason as the voice of Danger Mouse in the 2015 revival of the 1980s animated series.

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On 1 June 2015, Alexander Armstrong presented a documentary, Rome's Invisible City, which used 3D scanning technology to discover the underground spaces below the city.

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26.

Subsequently, it was announced that Alexander Armstrong would be making a three-part series exploring the lost and hidden sites of Florence, Naples, and Venice.

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In 2015, Alexander Armstrong presented a three-part factual series for ITV, called Land of the Midnight Sun, in which he travelled half-way round the Arctic Circle meeting its inhabitants and exploring their ways of life.

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Alexander Armstrong has done other voiceover work, including Mr Wolf and Captain Dog in Peppa Pig and he is the narrator of Hey Duggee.

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Alexander Armstrong mainly sang at his local parish church services or at weddings, away from the public eye.

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Alexander Armstrong impersonated Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" in the show Your Face Sounds Familiar and surprised the judges by singing in falsetto.

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Since September 2014, Alexander Armstrong has presented the Saturday afternoon programme on the classical radio station Classic FM.

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Alexander Armstrong participated in VE Day 70: A Party to Remember on 9 May 2015, a televised commemorative concert from Horse Guards Parade in London, where he sang "We Must All Stick Together" by Ralph Butler and Raymond Wallace, and "London Pride", a patriotic song by Noel Coward.

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Alexander Armstrong sang in Songs of Praise: The Big Sing, broadcast on 20 September 2015, a special programme from the Royal Albert Hall to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II becoming the world's longest-serving monarch.

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On 6 November 2015, Alexander Armstrong released his debut solo vocal album, A Year of Songs, on Warner Music Group's East West Records label.

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Alexander Armstrong's version was recorded under the Warner Classics label with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

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From 2002 to 2009, Alexander Armstrong appeared in a series of British television adverts for the drink Pimm's.

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In 2002, Alexander Armstrong provided the voice for the character Horse in the English dub of the series A Town Called Panic.

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Also, in 2012, Alexander Armstrong was the voice of Professor M for the animation breaks for the McLaren F1 team, with the animations called Tooned broadcast on Sky Sports F1.

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In 2014, Alexander Armstrong provided the narrator's voice for CBeebies animation Hey Duggee.

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In 2019, Alexander Armstrong cameoed in the Horrible Histories:The Movie as Procurator Catus Decianus.

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In December 2015, Alexander Armstrong was awarded an honorary doctorate from Northumbria University.

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On 27 August 2003, Alexander Armstrong married Hannah Bronwen Snow, a stay-at-home mother; they have four sons.

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In February 2011, Alexander Armstrong became President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne and launched their million pound appeal at a special gala event.

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Alexander Armstrong is a patron of several charities, including Family Links, the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust and Just A Drop.

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Alexander Armstrong said that his family had traditionally voted for the Liberal Democrats.

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