Johnny Vaughan
| Johnny Vaughan | |
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Johnny Vaughan at Live 8 in July 2005
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| Born |
Jonathan Randal Vaughan 16 July 1966 Barnet, London, England |
| Years active | 1993 – present |
| Known for |
The Big Breakfast, Capital Breakfast with Johnny Vaughan |
| Spouse(s) | Antonia Davies (m. 1999; div. 2013) |
| Children | 2 |
Jonathan Randal Vaughan (born 16 July 1966) is an English broadcaster and journalist. Vaughan has become well known as a television and radio personality who has also built a reputation as a film critic. He co-presented Capital Breakfast alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011. He currently presents drivetime from 4pm-7pm on Radio X and writes a weekly column in the Sun newspaper reviewing recent film releases.
Vaughan was born in Barnet, London, to an engineer father, Randall, and a psychotherapist mother, Fay.
Vaughan was educated at a state school, St Andrew's Primary School in Totteridge, Barnet and later at two independent boarding schools, Bramcote School, Gamston Nottinghamshire and Uppingham School, Rutland. During his school years he showed a talent for comedy, playing the violin and singing.
On leaving school, Vaughan moved to London and originally wanted to become a writer. He ended up with a variety of jobs ranging from a grill chef to even starting his own business selling boxer shorts.
In 1988, aged 21, Vaughan was arrested for trying to sell £15,000 of cocaine to undercover police officers in a hotel on the M1 motorway near Northampton. In the immediate aftermath of his initial success with Moviewatch, Vaughan claimed in interviews, including one with Mayfair magazine, that he had been incarcerated for the distribution of pornographic videotapes.
Latterly, Vaughan recalled the event in an interview with the Daily Telegraph:
One night, an old schoolfriend, a student, called and asked him if he had any drug connections; the friend had met somebody who wanted to know. (The somebody, it turned out, was a drug dealer who had been arrested and was now working for the police.) No, said Vaughan, he didn't.
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