Adil Ray
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Adil Ray, OBE (born 26 April 1974) is a British actor, comedian and radio and television presenter. He stars in the BBC One comedy Citizen Khan, which he created and co-writes, as well as presenting on various BBC radio stations.
Adil Ray was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, England to his Pakistani father and Kenyan mother, brought up in the suburb of Yardley. Ray's father Abdul was a bus driver for almost 40 years and his mother worked for the Civil Service Immigration Appeals Department. Ray's parents (both now retired) divorced when he was in his mid-teens.
Ray attended Yardley Junior and Infant School and Handsworth Grammar School, his first day being the day after the Handsworth Riots in 1985. Ray was a keen cricketer and represented Birmingham League side West Bromwich Dartmouth from during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Ray later graduated from the University of Huddersfield with a 2:1 in BA (Hons) Marketing.
Ray began his career as a radio host on a pirate radio station in Huddersfield while studying at the University of Huddersfield, and DJing at the university venue Eden (1992). Later, during his placement year, he landed a job with a new small Asian radio station in Birmingham where he spent the first half of the year, before moving on to Choice FM (1995). In 1997, Ray landed a spot with Galaxy 105, a job that made him the first full-time British South Asian presenter to host a mainstream commercial radio show in the UK. He then joined Century Radio in Manchester, Radio Aire Leeds and Ministry of Sound Radio.
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