27 Facts About Jamie Theakston

Jamie Theakston co-hosted BBC One's former music programme Top of the Pops between 1998 and 2003.

Jamie Theakston narrated the BBC documentary series Traffic Cops from 2003 to 2015, and on Channel 5 from 2016 onwards.

Jamie Theakston has hosted several television programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

Jamie Theakston then presented numerous shows for Radio 5 Live including Sportscall, The Jamie Theakston Cricket Show and Sport on Wednesday.

Jamie Theakston joined Radio 1 in April 1999 to present the Sunday Lunch show.

Jamie Theakston fronted the 'One Big Sunday' events during 2000.

Jamie Theakston moved to a Saturday morning slot in 2001.

Jamie Theakston left Radio 1 in 2002 to pursue an acting career, his last show being broadcast on 28 September.

Jamie Theakston joined London radio station Heart 106.2 in May 2005, replacing Jonathan Coleman on Heart Breakfast with Harriet Scott, which won Gold for Best Music Personality Show at the New York Festivals and the Silver Entertainment Award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, both in 2007.

Jamie Theakston won the Radio Presenter of the Year award at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards in June 2009.

Jamie Theakston featured beside Zoe Ball in Channel 5's Britain's Best Brain series, which aired in October 2009.

Jamie Theakston has hosted a number of other shows, including the Channel 4 reality TV show The Games alongside Kirsty Gallacher; game show, Beg Borrow or Steal ; prime-time Saturday night show The People's Quiz; Channel 4's The Search; and ITV Saturday night show With A Little Help From My Friends.

Jamie Theakston's other presenting work includes fronting the Glastonbury Festival coverage for the BBC, the Oscars, the Grammys, A Question of Pop, UK Music Hall of Fame and Guinness World Records.

Jamie Theakston narrated all episodes of Traffic Cops and its spin-off show Motorway Cops, and since 2015 has narrated episodes of Caught on Camera.

Jamie Theakston played himself in the mock-interview series Rock Profile in which he interviewed "celebrities" impersonated by Matt Lucas and David Walliams, and in the episode "Video Killed the Radio Star" of the TV series FM in March 2009.

Jamie Theakston has acted with Amanda Holden in Mad About Alice and worked with Adam Faith on the series Murder in Mind in 2003, shortly before Faith's death.

Jamie Theakston has starred in the West End in the plays Art and Home and Beauty at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

Jamie Theakston lived for about ten years in Wings Place, a Tudor mansion in Ditchling, East Sussex.

Jamie Theakston married Sophie Siegle in Ditchling on 15 September 2007, and they live in west London.

Jamie Theakston was previously romantically linked to socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, actor Joely Richardson, and models Erin O'Connor and Sophie Dahl.

Jamie Theakston is a keen fencer and competed for Sussex in 1985.

Jamie Theakston took a break in 2003 to travel to Uganda to meet with former child soldiers.

Jamie Theakston is a patron for Cancervive, a charity established to address the needs of anyone whose family or friends are cancer-sufferers.

Jamie Theakston played in his fifth successive Soccer Aid match at Old Trafford in June 2014.

On 4 October 2019, Jamie Theakston took a break from Heart Breakfast to set off on his Bike Britain Challenge, a cycling event for Global's charity Make Some Noise.

In June 2022, Jamie Theakston gave his wicket to the bustling medium pace of Ricky Boardman from Kew Cricket Club's 3rd XI, an event Jamie Theakston defined as 'pure theatre'.

In 2002, Jamie Theakston's visit to a Mayfair brothel was exposed by British newspaper The People.