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Dominic Byrne

Dominic Byrne
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Dominic Byrne outside BBC Radio 1, September 2010
Birth name Dominic Anthony Byrne
Born (1972-11-10) 10 November 1972 (age 44)
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Show The Chris Moyles Show
Station(s) Radio X
Time slot 6.30am - 10am
Style Newscaster
Country United Kingdom
Spouse(s) Nicola Byrne
Children Finton James Byrne
Xanthe Rose Byrne
Tilda Ruby Star Byrne
Website Radio X website

Dominic Anthony Byrne (born 10 November 1972) is a newsreader and presenter. He currently works on the Chris Moyles Breakfast show on Radio X, having previously worked as the newsreader for Capital FM on the Capital FM Breakfast Show. Prior to this he had worked with the BBC from 1997-2012, most notably as part of the on-air team on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 from 2004-2012, working as the newsreader and contributing to the show's zoo format. He also worked as a newsreader elsewhere on Radio 1, and presented on the BBC News Channel. He also runs his own voice training business called Open Mouth Productions. He returned to the new format of The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X in 2015, reading the news.

Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Byrne attended St Ivo School before attending Bournemouth University. Byrne's career began at Kiss 102 in Manchester, reading the breakfast show news. After moving to London he freelanced at Independent Radio News and Virgin Radio.

He joined BBC Radio 1 in 1997, and became part of the team in the zoo format Chris Moyles Show. As well as reading news, Byrne interviewed many celebrities for the breakfast show including Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Alan Sugar, David Schwimmer, Uma Thurman, Goldie Lookin' Chain, and more recently Reese Witherspoon, William Shatner, Al Gore, Richard E. Grant, Daniel Craig, Bruce Willis, Bono, Adam Clayton, Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Downey Jr, Jennifer Aniston, Jedward, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jennifer Lopez, Elton John, Cameron Diaz and Peppa Pig. He also contributed to multiple features, and parody songs, some of which featured on The Parody Album released by Chris Moyles.


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