Donal Skehan
| Donal Skehan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 June 1986 Howth, Dublin, Ireland |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation |
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| Years active | 2006—present |
| Spouse(s) | Sofie Larsson (m. 2015) |
| Website | www |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Pop |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2006–2010 |
| Labels | MIG Live |
| Associated acts | Streetwize, Industry |
Donal Skehan (born 3 June 1986) is an Irish television personality, presenter (specialising in food programmes), food writer, cook, photographer and former singer. He is known for his television series, cookbooks, and popular YouTube channel. Skehan was also a member of the boy band Streetwize and vocalist with Industry, earning two #1s on the Irish Singles Chart in 2009.
His parents are in the food industry, running their own food distribution company and having grown up in Howth, County Dublin. Skehan attended Sutton Park School and went on to study media at Dublin Business School.
Skehan worked as an announcer on the Irish entertainment speciality channel Bubble Hits, broadcasting music and entertainment news and celebrity gossip segments. This also created good contacts to take part in Irish preliminaries for Eurovision and in launching the band Industry which he was a member of at this time.
An avid food enthusiast, Skehan started a blog in 2007 called Good Mood Food that evolved into a cookbook. After many appearances on television, and giving of live demonstrations at social events and shows, he was featured in his own weekly food programme, Kitchen Hero, on RTÉ One that was launched on 16 May 2011. In 2011, he published a cookbook based on the television series, Home Kitchen Hero – Bringing Cooking Back Home. A second series and a Christmas special were aired in 2012. UKTV network Good Food began airing the show in April 2012. The show is now in its sixth year of production.
Skehan became a co-presenter and judge on Junior MasterChef on the BBC in 2012, appearing alongside John Torode.
In 2013, after appearing on Jamie Oliver's YouTube channel, Foodtube, Skehan launched his own dedicated YouTube channel which has since grown to over 400,000 subscribers.
Skehan presented a new series for Food Network, Follow Donal, which saw him explore Vietnam in a four-part series and then went on to visit ten European cities in the second installment of the series which aired in the autumn of 2015. Skehan is also appearing in the Swedish food programme Mitt kök on TV4 where he speaks Swedish. Skehan is currently one of a number of rotating guest presenters for Saturday Kitchen on BBC One and has hosted six editions of the show to date.
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