Noel Fielding is best known for his work with The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and more recently as a co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off since 2017.
33 Facts About Noel Fielding
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Noel Fielding is known for his dark and surreal comedic style.
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Noel Fielding appeared as himself as a team captain on the BBC Two comedy panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks from 2009 to 2015 and as a guest on Richard Ayoade's Travel Man series.
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Noel Fielding is the founder of the band Loose Tapestries, which he formed with Kasabian guitarist Sergio Pizzorno.
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Noel Fielding was born in the Westminster area of London on 21 May 1973, the son of Royal Mail manager Ray Noel Fielding was born on 1953 and and Yvonne Fagan, and grew up in Pollards Hill near Croydon.
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Noel Fielding's parents separated some time after he was born.
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When Noel Fielding was three years old, his father remarried, and Noel 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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Ray Noel Fielding had several cameos as a Chris de Burgh on The Mighty Boosh.
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Noel Fielding was educated at Croydon School of Art, then studied for a BA in Graphic Design and Advertising at Buckinghamshire New University, then called Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in High Wycombe, where he lived with friends and future collaborators Dave Brown and Nigel Coan.
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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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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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Noel Fielding participated twice with Russell Brand in 2006 and 2007 on the annual quiz show The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
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Noel Fielding participated again in 2010,2013,2017,2018 and 2019, with Richard Ayoade.
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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, entitled Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox, at Maison Bertaux, a patisserie in Greek Street, Soho in early 2008.
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Noel Fielding has stated that he has been heavily influenced by the works of Salvador Dali.
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On 6 September 2011, Noel Fielding received an honorary master's degree from Buckinghamshire New University for his ongoing interest in the graphics area and support for many art organisations.
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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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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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In 2009, a Sunday Times article revealed that Noel Fielding developed alcohol induced hepatitis during his college years; he said that he was helped through this time by his friend and collaborator Nigel Coan.
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Noel Fielding was named one of GQs 50 best dressed British men in 2015.