Hardeep Singh Kohli Biography
Hardeep Singh Kohli is a Scottish radio and television presenter of Sikh heritage who has appeared on a variety of radio and television shows.
How old is Hardeep Singh Kohli? -Age
He is 54 years old as of 21 January 2023. He was born in 1969 in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom.
Hardeep Singh Kohli Family
In the 1960s, his parents immigrated to the United Kingdom from India. The Punjabi language is used in the Punjabi language. His mother was a social worker, and his father was a teacher who became a wealthy Bishopbriggs property landlord. Sanjeev Kohli, his younger brother, is an actor and writer. His first school was Hillhead Primary School in Glasgow’s West End, followed by Meadowburn Primary School in Bishopbriggs.
At age eight, he moved to John Ogilvie Hall, the primary school of St Aloysius’ College, a private Roman Catholic school in central Glasgow. Kohli earned a law degree from the University of Glasgow in 1990. He worked as an usher at the Citizens Theatre and in a vegetarian restaurant while at university.
Hardeep Singh Kohli Wife
Kohli is a father of two kids. In 2009, he divorced.
Hardeep Singh Kohli Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 Million.
Hardeep Singh Kohli Politics
Writing and speaking in favor of a “Yes” vote in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, Kohli attended the pro-independence rallies in Edinburgh on September 22, 2012, and September 21, 2013. Prior to the vote, Kohli traveled back to Scotland to play a key part in the Yes Scotland movement. In November 2014, after the “Yes” campaign lost the independence referendum, Kohli became a member of the SNP.
Hardeep Singh Kohli Celebrity Big Brother
Kohli debuted as a celebrity housemate on the UK television show Celebrity Big Brother on August 16, 2018. Kohli was nominated for eviction four times while in the Celebrity Big Brother house before being eliminated on September 7, 2018. Kohli was the fifth housemate to be booted out.
Hardeep Singh Kohli Landlord
Kohli is also a Glasgow landlord. This was widely discussed after officials condemned his properties as “grubby and dirty” and substandard. He was warned about his landlording behavior.
Hardeep Singh Kohli MasterChef
Kohli appeared in the first series of BBC One’s Celebrity MasterChef in September 2006, reaching the final with Roger Black and finishing second to eventual winner Matt Dawson.
Hardeep Singh Kohli BBC Radio
“He patently had no real interest in the European and American hippies who trekked overland to India in the 1960s,” writes Gillian Reynolds of the Telegraph. He seemed positively contemptuous at times, as if he was wondering why he was bothering.” He also hosted “Where Scotland Meets England” and “Where England Meets Wales” for BBC Radio 4.
In 2010, Radio 2 aired “Great British Faith,” a city-based series that examined the spiritual lives and histories of six British cities. The depth and scope of their portraits impressed Kohli’s friend Elisabeth Mahoney, who described them as “terrific” in The Guardian. Kohli brought a genuine sense of the spiritual textures of these urban landscapes to the programs.”
Under the direction of producer Adam Fowler, he presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary titled “The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper,” which won the Third Coast Directors’ Choice Award in Illinois in 2010.
Kohli won Silver at the New York Radio Festival in 2011 for his “15 by 15” series about words and language. Hardeep’s Sunday Lunch, a program that explores people’s lives while Kohli cooks lunch, premiered in 2012. The sixth season aired in the fall of 2017 and early 2018. Kohli presented his third edition of The Food Programme on Radio 4 in August 2013, titled “Ode to a Bacon Roll,” about his love of bacon.
Hardeep Singh Kohli Career
Following his participation in the BBC Scotland graduate production trainee program, Kohli directed children’s programming for the BBC Television Centre in London. It’ll Never Work, directed by him, was the first children’s television show to win a Royal Television Society and BAFTA award in its first season. In 2004, he wrote, directed, and starred in Channel 4’s Meet the Magoons, which flopped. He participated in the first season of BBC One’s Celebrity MasterChef in September 2006. He and Roger Black made it to the final, where they finished second to Matt Dawson, the eventual winner. He did a three-part series on Channel 4 called “£50 Says You’ll Watch This” in January 2007 that looked at all kinds of gambling.
He presented Newsnight Review, Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 and Loose Ends, as well as the political panel show Question Time on the BBC. In 2008, Kohli presented “Chefs and the City,” “New British Kitchen,” and “Gordon Ramsay: “Sport Relief Does The Apprentice” and “Cook Along Live” He was the first “fired” Celebrity Apprentice. In addition, he made an appearance in the Scottish portion of the BBC’s Children in Need appeal in 2008, filmed a documentary about Scientology, and he presented the documentary In Search of the Tartan Turban, which looked into cultural identity as a Briton and a Scot from an ethnic minority. He hosted the second season of the CBBC game show Get 100 and was one of five volunteers who participated in a BBC series of three programs about living paycheck to paycheck on the streets of London called Famous, Rich, and Homeless.
He worked as a reporter for The One Show. In 2009, he was fired after being accused of “inappropriate behavior” toward a researcher. Kohli joined Celebrity Big Brother in the UK on August 16 as a celebrity housemate. He was nominated for eviction four times before being eliminated on September 7.