33 Facts About Johnny Vaughan

Jonathan Randal Vaughan was born on 16 July 1966 and is an English television and radio presenter and a film critic.

Johnny Vaughan was the main presenter of Capital Breakfast alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011.

Johnny Vaughan writes a weekly column in The Sun newspaper reviewing recent film releases.

Johnny Vaughan was born in Barnet, Greater London, to an engineer father, Randal, and a psychotherapist mother, Fay.

Johnny Vaughan went to St Andrew's Primary School in Totteridge, Barnet and private boarding schools, Bramcote School, Gamston, Nottinghamshire and Uppingham School, Rutland.

On leaving school, Johnny Vaughan moved back to London and originally wanted to become a writer.

Johnny Vaughan ended up with a variety of jobs ranging from a grill chef to even starting his own business selling boxer shorts.

Latterly, Johnny Vaughan recalled the event in an interview with the Daily Telegraph,.

Johnny Vaughan was slammed against a wall by a policeman who asked him how old he was.

Johnny Vaughan was given a four-year jail sentence for dealing cocaine, served at Stocken Prison in Rutland.

Johnny Vaughan started his television career presenting the movie review show Moviewatch, as well as the music show Naked City and his own chat show Here's Johnny.

Johnny Vaughan hosted a late night show, Fabulous, on the old BBC Radio Five in 1993.

One feature of Johnny Vaughan's presentation was the way in which he frequently interacted with the various cameramen and technical people in the studio, turning some of them into popular characters in their own right.

Also notable was that each programme finished with a zany situational competition in which Johnny Vaughan revealed considerable talent as a character actor.

Johnny Vaughan transferred to the BBC to present a late-night talk show, Johnny Vaughan Tonight in the same vein of American shows by Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

However, a highly promoted BBC Two sitcom vehicle 'Orrible, which Johnny Vaughan wrote and acted in, was poorly received by the critics.

On 2 April 2004, Johnny Vaughan moved to radio and returned to the "zoo" format, when he replaced Chris Tarrant as the presenter of Capital Breakfast on 95.8 Capital FM, which saw the listening figures for his show drop from over 1.3 million to 980,000 listeners, according to RAJAR statistics.

In January 2008, Johnny Vaughan was reunited with van Outen when she joined him on the breakfast show in a move to boost listening figures, but she left the show halfway through her contract in June 2008.

On 18 November 2011, Johnny Vaughan left Capital Breakfast, and was replaced by Dave Berry.

Johnny Vaughan wrote the UK's first "dope opera", Top Buzzer, which aired in 2004 on MTV and later on Five.

Johnny Vaughan has been heavily involved with telethon charity drives such as Children in Need, Comic Relief and Sport Relief.

Johnny Vaughan was the presenter of the segment on prison-based sitcom Porridge.

Johnny Vaughan was featured in the 2005 film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, playing an awards ceremony host.

Johnny Vaughan presented the controversial hoax "reality" show Space Cadets for Channel 4.

In June 2006, Johnny Vaughan appeared as a guest on TV Heaven, Telly Hell.

Johnny Vaughan was a team captain on the Channel 4 comedy panel show Best of the Worst that features team captain David Mitchell and chairman Alexander Armstrong.

In December 2006, Johnny Vaughan made a guest appearance on the BBC comedy panel game QI.

In 2011, Johnny Vaughan appeared in the TV show Mud Men on History Channel.

Johnny Vaughan participated in a 2018 episode of quiz show Pointless Celebrities, reaching the final round alongside fellow Radio X DJ Toby Tarrant.

In 2023 Johnny Vaughan reunited with his former colleague Denise Van Outen to present an episode of Steph's Packed Lunch.

Johnny Vaughan married his long-term partner costume designer Antonia Davies in August 1999.

Johnny Vaughan's father-in-law was Nick Davies, once foreign editor of the Daily Mirror.

In March 1999, as a result of his experience of prison Catholic chaplains, Johnny Vaughan was received into the Catholic Church at Westminster Cathedral.