Chris Evans

Radio personality, TV Personality

1966 –

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Who is Chris Evans?

Christopher James "Chris" Evans is an English presenter, businessman and producer for radio and television.

He started his broadcasting career working for Piccadilly Radio, Manchester as a teenager, before moving to London as a presenter for the BBC's Greater London Radio and then Channel 4 television, where The Big Breakfast made him a star. Soon he was able to dictate highly favourable terms, allowing him to broadcast on competing radio and TV stations. Slots like Radio 1 Breakfast Show and TFI Friday provided an appealing mix of celebrity interviews, music and comic games, delivered in an irreverent style that attracted complaints and higher ratings in equal measure. By 2000 he was the UK's highest paid entertainer, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

In 2005, he started a new career on Radio 2, involving the long-running Drivetime programme, as well as a new breakfast show. More recent work for BBC1 and Channel 4 has not achieved the success of his earlier ventures.

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Born
Apr 1, 1966
Warrington
Also known as
  • Christopher Evans
  • chris_evans
  • Christopher Robert Evans
  • Christopher James Evans
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • St Margaret's Church of England Infants and Junior School
  • Junior school, Orford
Employment
  • Ginger Productions
  • Virgin Radio
    ( - 2001)
  • Ginger Media Group
  • T. J. & B. McLoughlin's
  • Ambassador, The Scout Association
Lived in
  • Warrington

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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