Nicolo Ferrari was born on 31 January 1959 and is a British conservative radio host, television presenter and broadcast journalist.
21 Facts About Nick Ferrari
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Nick Ferrari is best known as the host of the weekday breakfast show on the London-based radio station LBC.
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Nick Ferrari has a regular column in the Sunday Express and was previously a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarsh Show.
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Nick Ferrari regularly appears on ITV's programme This Morning and has presented the Sky News debate show The Pledge since 2016.
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Nick Ferrari was educated at Eltham College, a private school for boys in Mottingham in southeast London.
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Nick Ferrari became a news reporter on the Sunday Mirror in 1981 and subsequently a show business reporter at The Sun and editor of the paper's "Bizarre" gossip page.
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Subsequently, Nick Ferrari became features editor of the News of the Worlds Sunday magazine and assistant editor of the Daily Mirror.
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Nick Ferrari joined Talk Radio in 1999 as co-presenter of the Big Boys' Breakfast show with David Banks, shortly after the station was purchased by former colleague Kelvin MacKenzie in 1998.
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In 2001, Nick Ferrari presented his first breakfast programme on LBC, taking on the role officially in 2004.
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Nick Ferrari frequently asks first-time callers which station they previously listened to, rejoicing when they have left BBC Radio 4 or BBC London 94.9.
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Nick Ferrari is known for deliberately not mentioning the phone number to call the programme while presenting, as he believes it is an unnatural way to speak to listeners.
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Nick Ferrari was awarded the 2018 IRN Best Interview award for his role in interviewing Abbott.
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Nick Ferrari presented the discussion programme Forum on Press TV, an Iranian news channel.
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Nick Ferrari quit his show on the station on 30 June 2009 in protest at the reporting of the Iranian presidential election on 12 June 2009.
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Nick Ferrari's LBC show received the Sony Breakfast Show of the Year award in 2006, as well as the Arqiva Breakfast Show of the year in 2010.
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Nick Ferrari was awarded the Sony Speech Broadcaster of the year in 2009.
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Nick Ferrari indicated that he would not stand, as he "did not want to leave the listeners".
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Nick Ferrari voted to Leave in the 2016 EU membership referendum, but did not agree with the government's settled status fee.
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In September 2019, Nick Ferrari said, after a visit to Israel, "I'd been given an insight into a country that I've always admired and I now revered".
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In 2003, the Broadcasting Standards Commission upheld a complaint against Nick Ferrari, finding that his programme's "active reinforcement of prejudiced views about asylum seekers had exceeded acceptable boundaries for transmission".
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In 2015, Nick Ferrari was investigated by Ofcom after he said on his radio programme that the November 2015 Paris attacks were "a Muslim problem" and told a Muslim caller to "go some place else" if the caller did not agree with UK foreign policy.