1. Noel Fielding is an English comedian, artist, and actor.
39 Facts About Noel Fielding
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Noel Fielding was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off since 2017.
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Noel Fielding is known for his dark and surreal comedic style.
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Noel Fielding has appeared as a team captain on the BBC Two comedy panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, originally from 2009 to 2015, and again since 2021, and as a guest on Richard Ayoade's Travel Man series.
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Noel Fielding was born in the Westminster area of London in 1973, the son of Royal Mail manager Ray Noel Fielding and Yvonne Fagan.
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Noel Fielding grew up in Mitcham, Southwest London When Fielding was three years old, his father remarried, and Fielding was mostly raised by his grandmother.
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Noel Fielding's mother had two more children before dying in 1990 aged 37 years old, from complications caused by liver damage.
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At the age of 13 Noel Fielding began writing comedy sketches.
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At the age of 15, Noel Fielding became a goth and had goth girlfriends.
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Whilst studying at Croydon Art College Noel Fielding met Mighty Boosh collaborator Dave Brown.
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From 1992 to 1995 Noel Fielding studied for a BA in graphic design and advertising at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education in High Wycombe, graduating in 1995.
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Noel Fielding began performing comedy while at university and he began performing stand up when he graduated in 1995.
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In 2010, Noel Fielding was supposed to perform a solo tour across the country.
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Noel Fielding announced via Twitter that he was too busy to do the tour.
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From 2014 to 2015 Fielding toured the UK and Australia with a new comedy show An Evening With Noel Fielding that included both stand-up comedy and sketch comedy and along with Fielding included performances from his brother Michael Fielding and long-term collaborator Tom Meeten.
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Noel Fielding said about their first live show in 1998 that they had worked on their ideas together, and played "zookeepers [who] got sucked through our bosses' eyes and into a magic forest".
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The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Noel Fielding's to describe the hair that Michael had as a child.
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Noel Fielding said that for the first three weeks of the TV show, he did all of the paintings for the animations, but this led to lack of sleep, so Ivana Zorn, Nigel Coan's partner, started doing most of the painting, with Noel Fielding just designing the main characters.
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Noel Fielding has said several times that he talked about writing a film with Barratt, and he would have loved to do so, but they never got around to it.
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At Bill Bailey's request, Noel Fielding stood in as a team captain for three episodes during series 21 of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
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Noel Fielding achieved a record for the highest team score ever on the show.
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In 2009, Bailey left the show and Noel Fielding became one of the regular team captains.
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Between 2006 and 2017 Noel Fielding appeared thirteen times on the quiz show The Big Fat Quiz of the Year as well as its spin-off shows The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz, The Big Fat Quiz of the Decade and The Big Fat Quiz of Everything.
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Noel Fielding appeared on the quiz show three times with Russell Brand, nine times with Richard Ayoade and once with Eddie Izzard.
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Also in 2011, Noel Fielding performed Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" dance routine for Series 3 of Let's Dance for Comic Relief, and reached the grand final.
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Noel Fielding appeared as a contestant on Series 4 of the Dave comedy panel game Taskmaster in 2017, hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne: he was the overall series winner.
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In November 2007, Noel Fielding starred in five episodes of BBC Radio 2 show Vic Reeves' House Arrest as a local vagrant who knocks on Reeves' door once a week to ask for work.
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Noel Fielding has appeared in several music videos, including Mint Royale's "Blue Song", alongside Julian Barratt, Nick Frost and Michael Smiley.
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Noel Fielding made a brief appearance in the video for Razorlight's "In the Morning".
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In 2009, Noel Fielding was involved in the Kasabian video "Vlad the Impaler", in which he plays the titular character, and reprised the role at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival.
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Noel Fielding makes a brief appearance as Vlad in the video for another Kasabian song, "Re-Wired", riding a five-seater bicycle with the band, and appears as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in "You're In Love With a Psycho", in which he re-enacts the broken mirror routine from the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup with Pizzorno and Tom Meighan.
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Noel Fielding has appeared in Kate Bush's music video "Deeper Understanding" as a means of thanks for the Let's Dance For Comic Relief performance.
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Noel Fielding held his first exhibition of his paintings, entitled Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox, in a gallery above the patisserie Maison Bertaux, in Greek Street, Soho in December 2007.
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In October 2011, Noel Fielding released an art book called Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton, which he produced along with The Mighty Boosh cast member Dave Brown.
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On 6 September 2011, Noel Fielding received an honorary master's degree from his alma mater, now called Buckinghamshire New University, for his ongoing interest in the graphics area and support for many art organisations.
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In 2015, Noel Fielding was named one of GQ magazine's 50 best-dressed British men.
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Noel Fielding was formerly in a relationship with Robots in Disguise lead vocalist Dee Plume, who made minor appearances in The Mighty Boosh and in its live adaptations.
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Noel Fielding began dating radio DJ Lliana Bird sometime around 2010.
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Noel Fielding was ill and exhausted for a year, and was unable to consume alcohol for five years afterwards.