Jonny Gould
| Jonny Gould | |
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Jonny Gould at Smooth Radio & Talksport
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| Born | Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | Jewish |
| Occupation | Radio & Television sports broadcaster, Broadcast and content sponsorship expert |
| Website | jonnygould |
Jonny Gould is an English radio and TV presenter who broadcasts on Sky News on Sunrise and previously as a sports presenter at Smooth Radio and BBC Radio 2. Gould is Jewish and was born and raised in Birmingham where his Orthodox Jewish family were members of Singers Hill Synagogue. His maternal family had came from Vienna.
Jonny presented breakfast show sport for Smooth Radio between 2012 and 2014. Initially he joined to anchor the station's extended breakfast sports bulletins during the 2012 Summer Olympics, but stayed for two more years.
Group Programme Director John Simons said, "Jonny’s a great talent and I’m delighted he will be joining Simon in the studio for breakfast”
After the Olympics, Smooth Radio then retained Jonny to be reunited with breakfast presenter Simon Bates to present the morning sports news, more than 15 years after they first broadcast together on Talksport.
When Jonny left Smooth Radio, he joined BBC Radio 2, deputising for Vassos Alexander as sports presenter on the Breakfast Show. His first appearance was around the Easter Holidays.
In addition to the weekday shows on Smooth Radio, Jonny presented the weekend sports show Extra Time on Talksport He also presented the Sports Bar and Kickoff alongside Stan Collymore, Bobby Gould and Tony Cascarino.
Jonny has now returned to working for the Wireless Group (TalkSPORT's then-owner) filling the 7 to 10pm section on their newly launched DAB station talkRADIO - which is actually TalkSPORT's original name. Jonny chose to leave the evening show and presented his final show with Ash on 3 November 2016. His first Sunday show aired on 13 November 2016.
Since 2008 Jonny has been a regular newspaper and sports pundit on Sky News providing comment and analysis. From February 2014, he became a regular contributor on Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes. Jonny also appeared on Between The Lines on ESPN with Ray Stubbs.
In 2010 Jonny Gould started to appear regularly on Al Jazeera English as a football expert to discuss a wide variety of football-related stories including the FIFA World Cup host country announcements for 2018 and 2022 and the many political controversies involving FIFA's Sepp Blatter.
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