Hamish Blake Biography
Hamish Blake is a comedian, television, and radio host, actor, and author from Australia who collaborated with Andy Lee as part of the comic duo Hamish and Andy since 2003. He has also been on several Australian television shows, including the 2008 Great Debate, and is frequent on Spicks & Specks, Rove, and Thank God You’re Here.
How old is Hamish Blake? – Age
He is 41 years old as of 11 December 2022. He was born in 1981 in Melbourne, Australia. His real name is Hamish Donald Blake.
Hamish Blake Family – Education
He is the middle child; his older brother, Lachlan, is an attorney, and his sister, Sophie, has a bachelor’s degree in arts. Blake’s parents, Noel and Kerry, divorced when he was 17, and his father later remarried. Blake claims he grew up watching Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and Blackadder, and as a youngster, he “worshipped” comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy.
Blake was a member of Australia’s National Boys Choir in the late 1980s. He went to Glen Waverley South Elementary School for elementary school, Caulfield Grammar School for high school, and St Leonard’s College for college, where he graduated in 1999. Blake enrolled in a Science/Commerce double degree at the University of Melbourne after taking a gap year.
Hamish Blake Wife
In 2012, Hamish married Zo Foster Blake. Sonny and Rudy are their two children.
Hamish Blake Height
He stands at a height of 6 feet 4 inches(1.93 m).
What is the Net Worth of Hamish Blake?
He has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
Hamish Blake Bodybuilding
Andy entered Hamish in the Mr. New York State bodybuilding competition in the Heavyweight class as part of a prank for the TV show Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year. Blake was given the title of Mr. New York State 2011 in the Heavyweight class due to a technicality in which he was the only participant weighing more than 200 pounds (the minimum threshold for a Heavyweight contender).
Hamish Blake House
The reimagining of the four-bedroom home in Vaucluse happened in just nine months, despite the pandemic-ridden backdrop of a turbo-charged life upheaval—purchasing the property in 2020, moving to Sydney from Melbourne on New Year’s Day 2021, designs put into motion in February, moving out in May, then moving back in a few days before Christmas.
Hamish Blake Lego Masters Australia
Blake is a two-time Gold Logie accolade winner for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, having won the accolade in 2012 for Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year and again in 2022 for Lego Masters.
Hamish Blake Podcast
Hamish embarked on various new side ventures after reducing his daily radio program to a weekly radio broadcast and podcast. Blake appeared in the ABC sitcom Twentysomething in 2011, with real-life best friends Jess Harris and Josh Schmidt. He also co-starred in his debut feature picture, Two Little Boys, alongside Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie. Blake created a podcast called How Other Dads Dad with Hamish Blake in October 2022.
Hamish Blake Tattoos
Blake has revealed the amusing origins of his DIY tattoos. The TV celebrity was a guest on Andy Lee’s quiz program The Hundred when he was asked to explain the meaning of one rather dubious tattoo. The Lego Masters presenter emphasized that this was not what was written on his arm. Stick-figure pictures of Andy and Jack were displayed next to the drumsticks. However, the comedian said that he had no remorse about the simple tattoos on his arm. Blake previously pulled up his sleeve for the Covid vaccination and invited supporters to do the same. Hamish went to Instagram earlier this month with a heartfelt and hilarious plea to his fans to be vaccinated, coupled with a snapshot of himself leading by example at Homebush’s vaccination center.
‘Jabba Dabba Done,’ the Hamish & Andy star began his caption. I tried to obtain my immunization via the Olympic Rings, but accurate needle insertion won out over a symbolic picture op.’Hamish was seen with his sleeve turned up, revealing a variety of tattoos, including one of the Olympic rings.
Hamish Blake Career
Since 2003, when they performed their breakout show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, a stage production about a trip they had taken to North Queensland in Blake’s old car, Blake has collaborated with fellow comedian Andy Lee as the duo Hamish and Andy. Soon after that, they trained with SYN Radio, got a drive-time shift, and made a show called Radio Karate for RMITV on Channel 31, a community access television station, with Ryan Shelton and a few other friends from school. At the first National Community Television Awards in February 2004, Radio Karate won the Antenna Award for best comedy program. A month later, they were offered a national comedy show on Australia’s Seven Network.
In March 2005, The Hamish and Andy Show debuted on the Seven Network, but it did not do well in the ratings and was pulled after just two weeks. Despite acknowledging the duo’s talent, reviewers criticized the show for being “poorly executed.” Although working on the show was a fun experience, Blake claims that they had little control over what transpired and how the story developed. They made a short mockumentary titled The Greystone 2800 after The Hamish and Andy Show was cancelled. It was about a couple who bought an open display home without reading the fine print on the purchase. The film won the Melbourne Satire Celebration Short Film rivalry and pulled in the consideration of jokester Meander McManus. This resulted in a few brief appearances on McManus’ Rove Live show on Network Ten.
Additionally, McManus’s Roving Enterprises provided assistance to the duo in the creation of Real Stories, a mock current affairs program that debuted on Network Ten in 2006. Blake claims that making Real Stories was a much more enjoyable experience than making The Hamish and Andy Show because they had more control over the show. The show was written, performed, directed, filmed, and produced by Blake and Lee with assistance from Tim Bartley and Ryan Shelton.
Hamish & Andy, Blake and Lee’s national drive-time radio show, debuted in 2006 on the Today Network. The show quickly gained popularity, surpassing 3AW’s well-known radio host Derryn Hinch in 2006 with nearly one million listeners in Melbourne. In four of Australia’s five major capital cities, Blake and Lee’s show was rated number one as of August 2008. The show has been shown in all of the nation’s capitals and many regional centers since the beginning of 2009.
They made the announcement in September 2008 that they would appear as a guest on Ten’s “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” which Rove McManus is the host of. They also appeared as guests on the Australian soap opera Neighbours that same year.
Hamish and Andy aired their own one-time episode on November 19 at 7.30 p.m., brought to you by Rove: Re-Gifted Andy and Hamish: A Christmas Special Very Early on. This was to show Rove everything they had done in 2008 again.
Additionally, Hamish and Andy have made numerous appearances on Channel Ten’s Good News Week and The 7PM Project. Along with Andy Lee and Jack Post, he is a founding member of the “rock-insult” band Coolboys and the Frontman.