1. Jon Holmes was born on 24 April 1973 and is a British comedian, writer, presenter and broadcaster.
39 Facts About Jon Holmes
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Jon Holmes's work includes The Skewer, The Now Show, Listen Against, along with both music and spoken word radio.
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Jon Holmes attended Canterbury Christ Church College, where he graduated with a joint degree in English with radio, film and television.
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Jon Holmes became involved with university radio station C4 Radio and wrote, directed and performed in various student revue shows; he became a presenter on Canterbury's local radio station KMFM Canterbury.
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Jon Holmes had a show on Power FM on Sunday nights.
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In 2001 Jon Holmes co-created the Radio 4 show Dead Ringers, for which he jointly won his second gold Sony, and the show transferred to BBC Two television.
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Meanwhile, on BBC Radio 4, Jon Holmes was writing and appearing on The Now Show and The 99p Challenge, where he first worked with Armando Iannucci.
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Jon Holmes hosted a spin-off BBC Radio 7 radio series and official podcast of the American drama series Heroes, featuring on BBC Two in the UK.
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Jon Holmes co-wrote and co-presented The Day the Music Died alongside Andrew Collins.
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Jon Holmes has fronted his own BBC Radio 1 show and from 2006 to 2012 had his own weekend show on BBC Radio 6 Music.
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Jon Holmes was a regular contributor to the Radio 4 programme Loose Ends.
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On 19 December 2012, it was announced that Jon Holmes would be taking over from Danny Wallace as presenter of the XFM London breakfast show from 7 January 2013.
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Jon Holmes made the headlines again after a controversial joke about the Irish at the Winter Olympics.
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Jon Holmes was nominated for 'Presenter of the Year' at the 2015 Commercial Radio Awards.
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In March 2016 it was announced that Jon Holmes would move to the new-to-launch speech station Talkradio to present the weekday afternoon slot.
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Jon Holmes left the station, and his final show was on 12 January 2018.
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Between 2006 until 2012 Jon Holmes presented a BBC Radio 6 Music show every Saturday at 10am, where he "plays some music and messes around in the gaps" alongside his friend and sidekick David Whitehead and producer Adam Hudson.
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In 2018 Jon Holmes was back on Radio 2 with Jeremy Vine: Agony Uncle, which he wrote and appeared in as 'Tim the producer'.
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Jon Holmes hosted The XFM London Daily Breakfast Show, alongside Matt Dyson, Dave Masterman and a series of interns from 7 January 2013.
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On 7 September 2015, after a summer of press rumours that he was being axed from XFM in favour of former Radio 1 Breakfast DJ Chris Moyles it was announced that Holmes would be moving from the daily breakfast show to its weekend counterpart, as part of the relaunch of the station as Radio X It was confirmed that Moyles would run the new station's breakfast show in direct competition with his Radio 1 successor Nick Grimshaw.
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Jon Holmes left the station in 2016, in order to host a show on Talkradio.
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On Monday 7 March 2016, Jon Holmes was revealed to be the afternoon presenter on the newly launched Talkradio.
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In January 2018, Jon Holmes joined digital radio station Virgin Radio UK presenting the Sunday drivetime show.
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Jon Holmes has regularly covered the breakfast and drivetime shows on weekdays since the station re-launched in 2016.
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Jon Holmes appeared in Crackanory on the Dave Channel as well as 'Nick Tesla' in the controversial Channel 4 drama Ukip: The First 100 Days which imagined what it would be like if Ukip won the 2016 UK general election.
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Jon Holmes co-wrote BBC1's The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson.
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Apart from the transfer of Radio 4's Dead Ringers, in 2002 Jon Holmes co-presented the fifth series of The Eleven O'Clock Show on Channel 4 television with Sarah Alexander.
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Jon Holmes wrote for Graham Norton on his award-winning Channel 4 show V Graham Norton and co-presented BBC3's The State We're In, in which he was beaten up by the SAS.
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Jon Holmes wrote and appeared in Gash, a nightly politics programme which was broadcast to coincide with the 2003 local elections and presented by Armando Iannucci.
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Jon Holmes is the voice of BBC Three's 7 Days and Crash Test Danny for the Discovery Channel.
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Jon Holmes regularly appears on Sky News to preview the following morning's newspapers.
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Jon Holmes co-wrote The History of the World Through Twitter.
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Jon Holmes has been a Sunday Times columnist and has written for The Guardian, The Times and the Radio Times, among others.
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Jon Holmes is a travel writer for the Sunday Times.
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Jon Holmes co-wrote Stephen Fry's script for the BAFTA Film Awards and has hosted the MOJO Awards and the Radio Production Awards.
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Jon Holmes has produced the series and has co-written it with Gareth Ceredig.
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Jon Holmes has won two BAFTAs, nine Gold Sony Radio Awards, two British Comedy Awards, a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Radio Show and was a nominee, for The Now Show, for a Channel 4 Political Award.
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Jon Holmes was nominated for a Rose D'or for his work on The Impressionable Jon Culshaw, for ITV1.
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Jon Holmes has been nominated for two more BAFTAS, a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award and was made a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK.