Nick Ferrari
| Nick Ferrari | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Nicolo Ferrari 31 January 1959 Sidcup, Kent, England |
| Residence | Lewisham, London |
| Style | Talk radio |
Nick Ferrari (born 31 January 1959) is a British radio presenter who hosts the weekday breakfast show from 7.00-10.00am on the London-based talk and phone-in radio station LBC. He also has a regular column in the Sunday Express and is a regular guest on television shows such as The Alan Titchmarsh Show and This Morning, both on ITV.
Formerly, he presented the discussion programme Forum on Press TV, an Iranian news channel. He quit his show on the station on 30 June 2009 in protest at the Iranian regime's crushing of dissent after the country's presidential election of 12 June 2009.
His father Lino 'Dan' Ferrari, ran a news agency, Ferrari Press Agency, and Ferrari was keen to work in the media himself. Ferrari was educated at Eltham College an independent school for boys in Mottingham in southeast London.
Ferrari became a news reporter on the Sunday Mirror in 1981 and subsequently a show business reporter at The Sun and editor of the paper's "Bizarre" gossip page. During this period, he interviewed Roger Moore on the set of the James Bond film Octopussy for The Sun and "our young Jack the Lad" appeared as an extra in the movie. Subsequently he became features editor of the News of the World's Sunday magazine and assistant editor of the Daily Mirror. A friend of former The Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie, Ferrari joined him at L!VE TV where he devised such programmes as Topless Darts, the News Bunny and the weather presented by a dwarf on a trampoline.
...
Wikipedia