Jon Gaunt
| Jon Gaunt | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Jonathan Charles Gaunt |
| Born |
3 March 1961 Coventry, England |
| Country | England |
| Previous show(s) | Sun Talk talkSPORT BBC London BBC WM BBC Three Counties Radio BBC CWR |
| Website | Jon Gaunt |
Jonathan Charles "Jon" Gaunt (born 3 March 1961 in Coventry), is an English radio talk show presenter, TV personality, newspaper columnist, social commentator and spokesman.
Gaunt describes himself as a "working-class, educated guy with, in broad strokes, a rightwing agenda". He appears every Wednesday as a newspaper reviewer on Sky News Sunrise. He also appears as a contributor to television programmes such as Question Time, Countdown, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Daily Politics and BBC News. On radio, Gaunt is a regular contributor on BBC Radio 2's The Jeremy Vine Show.
He studied Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. On graduation he founded a theatre co-operative in Coventry called Tic Toc, and wrote over 15 political plays. The company eventually received funding from West Midlands Arts and the Arts Council of Britain. It was also funded by the company becoming a major promoter at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, promoting and hosting acts such as Julian Clary, Harry Enfield and Mike Myers.
His most successful play was Hooligans which won a Fringe First at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It also won the Perrier Pick of The Fringe. This play was subsequently adapted by Yorkshire Television, and Gaunt began writing for television, becoming a member of the Emmerdale script writing team for two years. In 1989, Gaunt and the company raised over one million pounds from the private sector and West Midlands Enterprise Board to buy and renovate an old cinema, The Orchid, into a multi-purpose arts centre and nightclub called The TicToc Club. This venture went into administration in 1992.
Gaunt then ran the Livingston Forum in West Lothian, Scotland for a year, before returning to Coventry where a chance meeting with Moz Dee, who later became the programme director at Talksport, led to his being persuaded to audition for the local radio station for which Dee worked, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
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