1. Nicholas Simon Augustine Knowles was born on 21 September 1962 and is an English television presenter, writer and musician.
24 Facts About Nick Knowles
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Nick Knowles has hosted several television programmes including Real Rescues, Who Dares Wins, Break the Safe, 5-Star Family Reunion, and DIY SOS.
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At the age of 11, Nick Knowles moved to Mildenhall in Suffolk, attending St Louis Middle School in Bury St Edmunds, and moved again, attending Gunnersbury Catholic School for Boys.
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Nick Knowles played in bands from the age of 14 and was constantly writing music, poetry and comedy, until he submitted a script to a BBC2 programme that invited children to make a video.
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Nick Knowles began as a runner in television production, before moving into presenting.
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Nick Knowles was a reporter for TVS in the South East, reporting on the nightly news programme Coast To Coast.
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Nick Knowles is principally known as the main host of DIY SOS, a home renovation series broadcast on BBC One since 1999, and has presented the BBC factual show Real Rescues since 2007.
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Nick Knowles has hosted several entertainment programmes for the BBC since signing an exclusive contract with them, including Who Dares Wins, Last Choir Standing, Guesstimation, Secret Fortune, and Perfection.
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Nick Knowles flew back to the UK to receive emergency treatment.
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In 2009, Nick Knowles co-presented the BBC reality TV series Wildest Dreams with James Honeyborne, in which novice candidates had to complete a set of challenging tasks filming wild animals in Africa.
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From 2011 to 2015, Nick Knowles was the presenter of the BBC game show Perfection, in which the candidates must achieve absolute perfection to win the jackpot, aired weekdays on BBC One.
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In 2015, Nick Knowles began presenting a new BBC One National Lottery game show 5-Star Family Reunion, which returned for a second series in 2016.
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In May 2016, Nick Knowles presented Invictus: The Road to the Games, a one-off programme for the BBC.
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In May 2021, it was reported that Nick Knowles was holding talks with the BBC regarding his role as the main host of DIY SOS due to his appearance in a Shreddies TV advert which violated BBC's commercial agreements and guidelines.
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In September 2024 Nick Knowles was a contestant on the twenty-second series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional dancer Luba Mushtuk.
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Nick Knowles did not perform in the third week due to injury and as a result, his Charleston to "Rain on the Roof" was postponed to the following week.
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Nick Knowles was a co-writer on the film Golden Years, which stars Simon Callow, Virginia McKenna and Una Stubbs.
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Nick Knowles released his first and last music album, Every Kind Of People, on 3 November 2017.
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Nick Knowles was married to his first wife Gillian Nick Knowles from 1996 to 2000 and share a son and daughter.
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Nick Knowles dated his second wife Jessica Rose Moor from 2009; they married in September 2012 but divorced in 2017.
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Nick Knowles's brother has a record company and his three sisters all became dancers.
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Nick Knowles plays rugby and adheres to a dietary regime that is vegan "80 per cent of the time".
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Nick Knowles has been a regular supporter of the children's anti-bullying charity Act Against Bullying.
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Nick Knowles sang "Addicted to Love" for Children in Need 2008.