1. Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan was born on 27 March 1978 and is a British actor, comedian, and presenter.
20 Facts About Romesh Ranganathan
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Romesh Ranganathan completed his first major tour, Irrational Live, in 2016; he performed in large venues such as the Hammersmith Apollo.
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Romesh Ranganathan has presented comedy programmes Judge Romesh and The Ranganation, as well as starring in the travel programme The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan.
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Romesh Ranganathan began hosting the revival of The Weakest Link in 2021.
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Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan was born in Crawley, West Sussex on 27 March 1978, the son of Sri Lankan Tamil parents Ranga and Sivashanthini Ranganathan.
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Romesh Ranganathan had an eye infection as a child that left him with a drooping eyelid and lazy eye on his right side.
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Romesh Ranganathan then attended Crawley's state sector Hazelwick School, before studying mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Romesh Ranganathan engaged in freestyle rap under the stage name Ranga, once reaching the finals of the UK freestyle competition.
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Romesh Ranganathan began performing comedy while still employed as a teacher.
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Romesh Ranganathan co-presented It's Not Rocket Science alongside Rachel Riley and Ben Miller in October 2013.
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Romesh Ranganathan started presenting Newsjack on Radio 4 Extra in March 2014.
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Romesh Ranganathan appeared on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice in 2014, during which he presented his home-made vegan chocolate brownies.
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Romesh Ranganathan performed at the Royal Variety Performance in 2015, and from September 2015 presented the BBC Three series Asian Provocateur, in which he travelled to Sri Lanka to explore his ancestry.
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In 2018, Romesh Ranganathan joined Season 13 of A League of Their Own and starred in his own ten-episode docu-comedy called Just Another Immigrant that premiered on Showtime 8 June 2018.
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Romesh Ranganathan was a contestant on the first series of Taskmaster and appeared in the third episode of Jon Richardson Grows Up.
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Romesh Ranganathan was the guest in the 185th episode of Cariod Lloyd's podcast, Griefcast.
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Romesh Ranganathan met his wife, Leesa, while working at Hazelwick School, where she was a drama teacher and he was a mathematics teacher.
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Romesh Ranganathan was a vegetarian, before going vegan in 2013.
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Romesh Ranganathan has discussed his "obsession" with tattoos, and is tattooed with the names of his sons alongside images of Richard Pryor, Nas, the Roots, the flag of Albania, and the Autobot logo.
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Romesh Ranganathan was still living in Crawley at the time.