1. Bradley Walsh has presented various television game shows, including Wheel of Fortune, The Chase, Odd One In, Keep It in the Family, Cash Trapped, and Blankety Blank.
49 Facts About Bradley Walsh
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Bradley Walsh hosted the ITV variety show Tonight at the London Palladium and was a team captain on the sports-themed panel show Play to the Whistle.
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Bradley Walsh appeared as the coach in the 2001 comedy film Mike Bassett: England Manager.
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Bradley John Walsh was born in Watford on 4 June 1960, the son of Scottish mother Margaret and English father Daniel.
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Bradley Walsh grew up in Leavesden and has a sister named Kerri.
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Bradley Walsh was educated at Francis Combe School, a state comprehensive school in the suburban village of Garston, in Hertfordshire, where he was voted most likely to become a TV host.
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In 1979, at the age of 18, Bradley Walsh became a professional football player for Brentford, although he failed to make the first team, and was regularly a member of the reserves.
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Bradley Walsh played for Tring Town, Boreham Wood and Chalfont St Peter.
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Bradley Walsh has participated in Soccer Aid, a charity football match in which England takes on The Rest of the World, with teams made up of celebrities and professional footballers.
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Bradley Walsh helped England win the 2006 events as a player and the 2012 and 2016 events as a coach.
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Bradley Walsh was recruited by television channel ITV, who offered him the role as presenter on one of the network's new game shows, Midas Touch.
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In 1997, Bradley Walsh was asked to front the British adaptation of the popular US game show Wheel of Fortune, following the decision of long-time presenter Nicky Campbell to leave the show after more than eight years.
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Bradley Walsh's first acting job was a minor role in the Channel 4 series, Lock, Stock.
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Bradley Walsh appeared as Dave Dodds in the 2001 Channel 4 TV film Mike Bassett: England Manager.
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Bradley Walsh returned to ITV in 2002 after landing a regular role in the short lived British soap opera Night and Day.
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In December 2006, Bradley Walsh was written out of Coronation Street at his own request.
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Bradley Walsh played the character of DS Ronnie Brooks, a recovering alcoholic who has been in the police force for more than twenty years.
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From 2009 until 2014, Bradley Walsh starred in a total of 53 episodes.
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Bradley Walsh said he would "like the opportunity to pursue other drama projects which ITV are developing".
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In May 2014, Bradley Walsh was cast as Brutus in a BBC One comedy series, SunTrap, starring alongside Kayvan Novak and Keith Allen.
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In October 2017, the BBC announced that Bradley Walsh had been cast as a companion to Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, in the eleventh series of Doctor Who.
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Bradley Walsh reprised the role for the twelfth series in 2020 and departed the programme in the 2021 New Year's Day special "Revolution of the Daleks".
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Bradley Walsh appears in the 2022 special "The Power of the Doctor".
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In December 2020, it was announced that Bradley Walsh had been cast as Pop Larkin in The Larkins, a new six-part adaptation of The Darling Buds of May He started appearing on The Larkins in October 2021.
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On 9 September 2007, Bradley Walsh hosted the countdown TV's 50 Greatest Stars on ITV, in which people had to vote for their favourite television personalities.
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Later that year, on 29 December 2007, Bradley Walsh hosted the quiz show No 1 Soap Fan on ITV.
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In November and December 2008, Bradley Walsh hosted another game show for ITV, Spin Star.
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In June 2009, Bradley Walsh became the presenter of ITV game show The Chase, as well as the celebrity editions of the programme.
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Bradley Walsh hosted a pilot for an American version of The Chase in 2012.
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Between 2010 and 2011, Bradley Walsh was the presenter of the Saturday panel show Odd One In, with regular panellists Peter Andre and Jason Manford.
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Since 2012, Bradley Walsh has hosted the Crime Thriller Awards on ITV3.
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Bradley Walsh hosted the Crime Thriller Club on ITV3 in 2013.
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Bradley Walsh narrated a one-off documentary for ITV called The Circus.
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On 26 October 2014, after two successful pilots, Bradley Walsh began hosting the first series of Keep It in the Family.
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Bradley Walsh returned to host a second series in 2015.
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In 2014, Bradley Walsh presented an episode of Sunday Night at the Palladium.
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Bradley Walsh returned to the show to present another episode in 2015.
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On 26 December 2014, Bradley Walsh hosted an entertainment special called A Christmas Cracker, filmed at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
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In 2016, Bradley Walsh began presenting Cash Trapped, a daytime game show for ITV.
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In 2017, Bradley Walsh guest-hosted five episodes of The Nightly Show on ITV, which aired from 3 to 7 April.
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In 2020, Bradley Walsh was announced as the host of a one-off festive revival of the game show Blankety Blank for the BBC.
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In December 2023, Bradley Walsh hosted the Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall.
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In 1997, Bradley Walsh had a spot in the Royal Gala celebrating 21 years of the Prince's Trust.
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In 2007, Bradley Walsh took part in Northern Rock's All Star Golf Tournament on ITV, in which his team, Team Europe, won.
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Since 2015, Bradley Walsh has been a team captain on the sports-based panel show Play to the Whistle.
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In May 2022, Bradley Walsh appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs; his chosen favourite record, book, and luxury item were "Always and Forever" by Heatwave, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, and a set of golf clubs and balls respectively.
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Bradley Walsh approached rival game show host Alexander Armstrong to ask him for singing advice in 2016.
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Bradley Walsh has a daughter born in 1982 from a previous relationship.
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Bradley Walsh attends church and has described himself as "very spiritual".