Jamie Theakston
| Jamie Theakston | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jamie Barker Theakston 20 December 1970 Cuckfield, Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Presenter, producer, actor |
| Spouse(s) | Sophie Siegle (m. 2007) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | Official website |
Jamie Barker Theakston (born 20 December 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, and actor. He is best known for hosting Top of the Pops, co-hosting the breakfast show with Emma Bunton on Heart FM and also for narrating the BBC documentary series Traffic Cops and Motorway Cops. He has also hosted several television programmes for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
Born in Cuckfield, Essex, Theakston was educated at two independent schools: the preparatory school of Hurstpierpoint College near the village of Hurstpierpoint in West Essex, followed by Lancing College in the village of Lancing, and Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College in Hove. He joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of 13 where he appeared in plays including Murder in the Cathedral and Marat/Sade alongside contemporaries such as Daniel Craig, but was put off from pursuing a full-time acting career by the financial hardships that he encountered. After leaving college with nine O-Levels and one GCSE in Maths, he joined the North London Polytechnic, from which he graduated with a first class degree in business studies. Whilst at university, he read traffic bulletins on BBC GLR as he wanted to get into sports reporting.
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