1. Nick Grimshaw became known for having hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1.
35 Facts About Nick Grimshaw
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Nick Grimshaw is known as a television presenter for his Channel 4 roles in T4 and The Album Chart Show.
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Nick Grimshaw was educated at Our Lady's Roman Catholic High School, a state voluntary aided school in the town of Royton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in North West England, followed by the University of Liverpool between 2002 and 2005, studying Communication and Media Studies.
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Nick Grimshaw failed his final year, graduating with a DipHE rather than a bachelor's degree.
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Nick Grimshaw joined BBC Radio 1 in September 2007, presenting the BBC's youth strand Switch with close friend and fellow DJ Annie Mac.
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Nick Grimshaw hosted the show for 9 months solo while Mac hosted a weekend lunchtime slot.
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From October 2008 to May 2009, Nick Grimshaw hosted Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show.
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Nick Grimshaw regularly joked about how long his position at BBC Radio 1 would last and whether he would actually be able to complete his long list of "1000 Albums Everyone Says You Should Listen To But We Only Have Time To Play One Track So Here It Is" which was a nightly feature on his show.
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Nick Grimshaw managed to reach number 369, before he left for the breakfast show.
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On 11 July 2012 it was announced that Nick Grimshaw would replace the long-standing Chris Moyles as host of Radio 1 Breakfast.
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On 24 October 2013, it was reported that Nick Grimshaw's Breakfast Show had one million fewer listeners than Moyles' and that its audience figures were the worst for the station in over a decade, with BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 all beating it in the ratings.
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On 31 May 2018, it was announced that Nick Grimshaw would be leaving the breakfast show and effectively swapping shows with Greg James.
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On 30 June 2021, Nick Grimshaw announced he would be leaving Radio 1 after 14 years on air.
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Nick Grimshaw's final show on the station was on 12 August 2021.
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On 9 January 2025, it was announced by the BBC that Nick Grimshaw would take over from Lauren Laverne as the new presenter of BBC Radio 6 Music's breakfast show, which he has covered for since August 2024.
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Nick Grimshaw's career started on UK entertainment channel E4, hosting daily shows.
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Nick Grimshaw presented the first ever BBC Switch Awards show with Kimberley Walsh of Girls Aloud on BBC One.
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In summer 2011, Nick Grimshaw hosted a live 6-part series for Channel 4 on Saturdays entitled New Look Style the Nation, in which hopeful fashion designers competed for a job at New Look.
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On 2 August 2013, Nick Grimshaw hosted a one-off panel show on Channel 4 called That Music Show.
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In late 2013, Nick Grimshaw appeared in as many soap operas he could, filming cameo roles in EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Home and Away.
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In 2014 Nick Grimshaw presented The Brits Are Coming, the show that revealed some of the nominees at the 2014 Brit Awards.
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On 16 June 2015, it was revealed that Nick Grimshaw would join the twelfth series of The X Factor as a judge to replace Louis Walsh.
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Nick Grimshaw was selected to mentor the "Boys" category and chose Mason Noise, Che Chesterman and Seann Miley Moore for the live shows.
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On 19 February 2016, Nick Grimshaw announced he would not be returning to the show for its thirteenth series and was replaced by Walsh.
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In spring 2021, Nick Grimshaw appeared as a contestant on The Great British Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer.
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Nick Grimshaw has expressed his interest in contemporary art and set design.
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Nick Grimshaw is an ambassador for the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Interested in live music production, Nick Grimshaw interned with the stage designer Es Devlin in 2017.
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Nick Grimshaw launched and judged Column Idol 2014, an annual competition set up by charity Media Trust with The Sun newspaper to find new writing talent.
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Nick Grimshaw makes a cameo appearance as himself in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.
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Since June 2022 Nick Grimshaw embarked on a weekly podcast "Dish" with Waitrose alongside Michelin-star chef Angela Hartnett.
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Nick Grimshaw appeared at number 8 on The Independent on Sundays list of the 101 most influential LGBT people in Britain 2012.
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Nick Grimshaw was awarded the title of GQ Best-Dressed Man of the Year in 2014 by the British edition of the magazine.
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Since 2018 Nick Grimshaw has been an ambassador for The Albert Kennedy Trust, known as Akt, a charity helping homeless LGBT youth.
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In March 2022 Nick Grimshaw became engaged to dancer and model Meshach 'Mesh' Henry.