1. Jonny Gould is a British media presenter, sports journalist, and political commentator.
23 Facts About Jonny Gould
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Jonny Gould has formerly broadcast on Sky News, Smooth Radio, and Talksport among others.
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From 1990 to 1993, Jonny Gould presented BBC World Service's Sports Roundup and Sports World.
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Between 1992 and 1995 Jonny Gould provided sports news for Independent Radio News as sports editor.
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Jonny Gould co-presented the Thursday Night Sports Phone-In with Robbie Vincent between 1990 and 1994.
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Jonny Gould founded Sportsmedia in 1992 to provide sports news and business news to the independent and BBC radio sector.
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From 2000 to 2002, Jonny Gould presented ITV Sport's Football First, a live four-hour football scores and reports show, and Euro Fever, a live studio show with an audience and guests.
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Jonny Gould presented ITV's The Goal Rush and was Premiership Plus' first ever touchline reporter, covering the channel's first eleven games.
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Jonny Gould appeared as a guest on Between The Lines on ESPN with Ray Stubbs.
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From 2008 Jonny Gould was a regular newspaper and sports pundit on Sky News providing comment and analysis alongside Eamonn Holmes, Sarah-Jane Mee and Tanya Bryer.
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In 2010 Jonny Gould started to appear regularly on Al Jazeera English as a football expert to discuss a wide variety of football-related stories.
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Jonny Gould presented breakfast show sport for Smooth Radio between 2012 and 2014.
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Jonny Gould briefly joined BBC Radio 2, deputising for Vassos Alexander as sports presenter on the Breakfast Show for two weeks in September 2014.
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Jonny Gould returned to working for the Wireless Group presenting the evening show on the newly launched DAB station talkRADIO.
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Jonny Gould moved to late afternoon on Sundays from November 2016.
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Jonny Gould left the station in July 2017 and returned after a summer at GB News in July 2021.
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Jonny Gould has written of how he "stood up to Jeremy Corbyn and the assorted ideologies his supporters espouse", regarding antiracism and antisemitism in the Labour party.
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Jonny Gould is a fan of his home city football club Aston Villa and has been a patron and later director of the Aston Villa Supporters' Trust.
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Jonny Gould is a follower of Scottish semi-professional club Nairn County.
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Jonny Gould resigned his position as a director of the Aston Villa Supporters' Trust in April 2021, alleging that he had been subject to antisemitic abuse which the Trust had not acted against.
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The Trust acknowledged the abuse Gould was receiving and responded with "any allegations made are groundless".
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Jonny Gould's family are Jewish, and his brother Ash is a former producer and long-term co-presenter of James Whale.
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Jonny Gould is an ambassador for Action Duchenne a national charity supporting people living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Striker Boy, a mental health awareness campaign for children and young adults with the charity MIND.