1. Peter Lloyd Price was born on 25 January 1946 and is a British radio presenter best known for his work in Liverpool.
23 Facts About Pete Price
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Pete Price hosted the Sunday night talk radio show Pete Price: Unzipped, which was broadcast across Liverpool sister stations Radio City and Radio City Talk.
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Pete Price is an author, patron, and artist for Claire House Children's Hospice and a columnist for the Liverpool Echo.
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Pete Price is openly gay, which is often the subject of prank calls to his radio show, as is the fact that he is dyslexic and has trouble reading text messages or emails on air.
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Peter Lloyd Price was born in Wrexham on 25 January 1946.
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Pete Price was adopted at approximately three months old, in April 1946, by Hilda Sandra Price and David William Lloyd.
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Pete Price was notably closer to his mother than his father, who repeatedly was violent towards Price's mother.
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At the age of 15, Pete Price was working as a hairdresser at the weekend while studying cookery at Birkenhead Technical College.
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Pete Price began working for a wealthy local family, catering for their dinner parties, and became a close family friend.
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Pete Price soon got a professional catering job, a summer at the Cavendish Hotel in Eastbourne and went on to manage a Fullers Tea Shop in Worthing.
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Pete Price was sent to an institution in Chester to receive aversion therapy when he came out to his mother at the age of 18.
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Pete Price left after one day after being exposed to people being "treated" using electrodes.
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Pete Price continues to star in pantomimes in Liverpool and Merseyside, as well as working for national newspapers including The Independent and The Times.
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Pete Price presented a live phone-in programme which was broadcast on Radio City Talk.
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Pete Price reacted by saying he was "devastated" by the news.
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Pete Price was praised for abandoning his midweek show on one occasion in February 2004 to go to the aid of a 13-year-old caller who was threatening to kill himself.
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In January 2006, Pete Price's show on sister station Magic 1548 hit the headlines in Liverpool when a regular caller known as "Terry" stopped responding live on air during a debate.
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Unfortunately, as he arrived, Pete Price saw an ambulance outside the house.
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Also in September 2007, an extract from his autobiography was published in the Liverpool Echo, which revealed that Pete Price had abused cocaine, although he "handed himself in" to the police shortly after through shame.
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In October 2007, it was reported by the Liverpool Echo that Pete Price had received a "homophobic" death threat via text live on air.
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In January 2008 Pete Price tried to find his natural father by using the networking skills of an imprisoned Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano in the hope that "The Don" can help him trace his dad.
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Pete Price himself said that the Mafia "must have the best information network in the world".
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In September 2007, Price released an autobiography, Pete Price: Namedropper topped Liverpool best seller charts within its first few days of sale, and was serialised in the Liverpool Echo.