Bruno Brookes was CEO of in-store radio company Immedia from 2000 to 2020.
18 Facts About Bruno Brookes
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Bruno Brookes became a disc jockey through youth club discos in his home town before he sent a successful audition tape created for him by George Wood to his local station, BBC Radio Stoke.
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Bruno Brookes used to wash cars to raise money for buying equipment.
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Bruno Brookes spent three years there before being recruited by BBC Radio 1, the national pop network, where he worked as a stand-in presenter for Steve Wright before taking over the teatime show from Peter Powell in September 1984.
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Bruno Brookes was an early supporter of the fledgling acid house scene by championing Stakker Humanoid, a November 1988 hit for Humanoid.
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Bruno Brookes was not made aware of the language in the track and, as a new entry, included it in the broadcast.
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Bruno Brookes was the last of the show's three presenters, following Howard Stableford and ex-Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones.
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Bruno Brookes hosted the dating show Love at First Sight and the angling show Tight Lines on Sky.
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Bruno Brookes appeared in the Brass Eye series, in which he read an appeal against the fictitious drug "cake".
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Bruno Brookes founded the corporate communications company Immedia in 2000, a provider of in-store radio stations including to HSBC, Ikea, and Topshop.
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Bruno Brookes was founded as Storm Radio, initially providing internet radio services, and was floated on the Alternative Investment Market in 2003.
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In January 2023, Bruno Brookes returned to the airwaves to host on 45 radio.
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Bruno Brookes appeared on the quiz show Through the Keyhole in the late 1990s as one of the celebrities whose homes were visited by Loyd Grossman.
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Bruno Brookes was in a relationship for eight years with TV presenter Anthea Turner until the early 1990s, when she left him for fellow DJ Peter Powell.
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Bruno Brookes later said he was abusive, which he said was an exaggeration.
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Bruno Brookes married model Debbie Brooker in 1994, they resided in Newbury, but they separated in January 2002 and were divorced.
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Bruno Brookes received a 12-month driving ban in 1999 for drink driving.
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In May 2006, Bruno Brookes suffered a heart attack and was treated at St Thomas' Hospital, London where he was interviewed by Nadia Sawalha as a patient on BBC One's City Hospital.