Mike Parry
| Mike Parry | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Michael Alan Newton-Parry |
| Born |
29 December 1954 Chester, England |
Michael Alan "Mike" Newton-Parry (born 29 December 1954) is a British journalist and radio presenter.
Born in Chester, Parry attended The King's School, Chester, and later Trent Polytechnic.
After graduating, Parry became "a Fleet Street reporter" and contributed to tabloid newspapers, most notably with The Sun. Parry then had a spell in the late 1990s as news editor of the Press Association in its Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, HQ before becoming a press officer with the Football Association
Parry has written Rooney Tunes a 2006 book based on Wayne Rooney and he also co-wrote There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil (2007) with his fellow talkSPORT presenter Alan Brazil.
In 1999, Parry joined Talk Radio (later known as talkSPORT). Parry originally co-presented the Sports Breakfast with Alan Brazil, but after the onset of health problems in 2004, he was replaced by Graham Beecroft and subsequently Ronnie Irani.
Due to the improvement in his health, Parry returned to co-host The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on Monday and Friday mornings, and sometimes stood in for Ronnie Irani if he was unavailable. Changes in talkSPORT's schedule for 2009 meant that Parry presented the 10:00–13:00 slot with Andy Townsend from Mondays to Fridays.
From June 2010 to February 2011 he co-hosted with Mike Graham in the same slot. He seemed to get on with Townsend much more harmoniously than with Graham, which led to the breakup of their show and was replaced by Richard Keys and Andy Gray from 14 February 2011. Parry then left the station.
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