Johnny Vaughan Biography
Johnny Vaughan is an English cinema critic, as well as a television and radio personality. From 2004 to 2011, he and Lisa Snowdon co-hosted Capital Breakfast on 95.8 Capital FM. He currently hosts the Radio X drivetime show, The 4til7 Thang, which airs weekdays from 4 to 7 p.m., and The Kickabout every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
How old is Johnny Vaughan? – Age
He is 57 years old as of 16 July 2023. He was born in 1966 in Barnet, United Kingdom.
Johnny Vaughan Family – Education
Vaughan was born in Barnet, Greater London, to engineer Randal and psychologist Fay. Vaughan attended St Andrew’s Primary School in Totteridge, Barnet, as well as two private boarding schools: Bramcote School in Gamston, Nottinghamshire, and Uppingham School in Rutland. Throughout his scholastic years, he demonstrated an aptitude for comedy, violin, and singing.
Johnny Vaughan Wife – Children
Vaughan married his long-time partner, costume designer Antonia Davies, in August 1999. The pair met while he was working in a video store as a teenager. Elvis Costello performed at their wedding. In 2003, they resided in Wandsworth Common, South London. Vaughan’s father-in-law was Nick Davies, the former international editor of the Daily Mirror. They have two children and a bulldog before divorcing in 2014.
Johnny Vaughan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $7 million.
Johnny Vaughan The Big Breakfast
Channel 4 producers believed he was a natural in front of the camera, and in light of declining viewership, he was picked to host The Big Breakfast from 1997 to 2001, creating a successful combination with former programme weather girl and actress Denise van Outen in 1998.
Van Outen’s cheeky “Essex girl” image contrasted well with Vaughan’s quick wit, and the two worked together to boost audience numbers to new heights. Vaughan’s presentation was notable for his frequent interaction with the many cameramen and technical personnel in the studio, which helped some of them become well-known personalities in their own right.
His ability to connect with regulars from various backgrounds, such as Trevor Baylis, Mark Bright, and Drusilla Beyfus, as well as the amount of knowledge he disclosed in his Shed interviews, cemented his status as a polymath. It’s also worth noting that each episode ended with a crazy situational challenge in which Johnny demonstrated significant flair as a character actor. Parallel to The Big Breakfast, Vaughan aired The Johnny Vaughan Film Show.
Van Outen departed to pursue her acting career at the end of 1998. The collaboration with substitute model Kelly Brook failed to replicate the chemistry between Vaughan and Van Outen, and audience counts “plummeted”.
Johnny Vaughan Arrest
Vaughan was arrested in 1988, at the age of 21, for attempting to sell £15,000 worth of cocaine to undercover police agents in a motel on the M1 near Northampton. Following his first success with Moviewatch, Vaughan revealed in interviews, including one with Mayfair magazine, that he was imprisoned for distributing pornographic videotapes.
He received a four-year prison sentence for trafficking cocaine and served it at Stocken Prison in Rutland. After being released from prison, Vaughan began working as a journalist for the Peterborough Herald, where he wrote a column called Johnny Vaughan in the Courts on court issues.
Johnny Vaughan Capital FM
Vaughan returned to the “zoo” style on radio in April 2004, when he replaced Chris Tarrant as the presenter of Capital Breakfast on 95.8 Capital FM, resulting in a decline in listening figures from almost 1.3 million to 980,000 listeners, according to RAJAR statistics.
Vaughan was reunited with van Outen in January 2008, when she joined him on the breakfast show to increase listenership, but she departed the show in June 2008, halfway through her contract. In August 2008, van Outen was replaced by model Lisa Snowdon. The show grew in popularity, reclaiming the top spot on London’s breakfast radio chart in October 2008, with an average weekly audience of 862,000 listeners. In 2010-11, his breakfast show had a regular audience of more over a million people. On November 18, 2011, Vaughan left Capital Breakfast and was replaced by Dave Berry.
Johnny Vaughan Career
In 2001, the BBC purportedly paid Vaughan £2.5 million to leave Channel 4. He moved to the BBC to introduce a late-night syndicated program, Johnny Vaughan This evening along these lines of American shows by Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Seeing figures were great (the show routinely got 2.5 – 3 million watchers every evening) and observers recommended that the configuration was the most appropriate to the free-wheeling Vaughan. In any case, an exceptionally advanced BBC Two sitcom vehicle ‘Orrible, which Vaughan composed and acted in, was inadequately gotten by the pundits. The show lost 40% of its crowd over its initial three episodes and was not recharged briefly series.
In October 2003 he concocted and created and was the principal moderator of BBC Radio Five Live’s Battling Talk, a game related satire show. Further TV appearances resulted, when Vaughan gave a restoration of his a shot screen relationship with Van Switch off in 2004 in the BBC’s Saturday night family show Visa to Heaven, which went on for one series. During this period at the BBC, Vaughan likewise co-facilitated 12 episodes of Whizzes (English television program), a recovery of the gigantically well known sports rivalry which ran on English television from 1973 to 1985.
In August 2013, it was reported Vaughan had finished paperwork for talkSPORT facilitating another show for Saturday morning from 11 am to 1 pm hit the Warm Up close by companions James Brown and Gavin Woods. The show looked forward to the end of the week’s football activity and clashed with Vaughan’s previous show Battling Chat on BBC Radio 5 Live. Close by this job, he additionally canvassed for Colin Murray in his 10 am – 1 pm space when he was inaccessible. His keep going show on talkSPORT was on 19 September 2015 passing on talkSPORT to have the new drivetime show from 4 pm to 7 pm as a component of the new work day daytime setup on Radio X.
Other work
Vaughan composed the UK’s first “dope show”, Top Bell, which circulated in 2004 on MTV and later on Five. Vaughan has likewise been vigorously engaged with fundraiser noble cause drives like Kids Out of luck, Entertainment and Game Help. In 2004 the BBC ran “a hunt to track down the country’s best-cherished sitcom” with an organization that aped that of the 100 Biggest Britons. One superstar supported every one of the main ten sitcoms, introducing an extended extraordinary on why their most loved was awesome. Vaughan was the moderator of the section on jail based sitcom Porridge.
In 2005, Vaughan turned into the host of the American reality/game show My Sort of Town on ABC. The show was dropped after four episodes. He was additionally highlighted in the 2005 film Deuce Bigalow: European Escort, playing an honors service have.
Vaughan introduced the disputable deception “reality” show Space Recruits for Channel 4. In June 2006, Vaughan showed up as a visitor on television Paradise, TV Damnation. He was a group skipper on the Channel 4 parody board show Best of the Most terrible that likewise includes group commander David Mitchell (Peep Show) and executive Alexander Armstrong.
In December 2006, Vaughan made a visitor appearance on the BBC parody board game QI (Series D, Episode 10, “Divination”). Vaughan has his own TV creation organization, “World’s End”. In 2009, he introduced a Chief Association Football DVD named Johnny Vaughan’s Own Objectives and Gaffs III.
In 2011, Vaughan showed up in the Network program Mud Men on History Channel. Joined by Steve Brooker, he branched out into the Thames coastline looking for buried antiquities and fortunes.
During the London 2012 Olympics, Vaughan joined Outright Radio to introduce the Olympic Drivetime show. As Outright Radio was likewise the authority station of the BT London Live shows in Hyde Park, which were additionally held during the Games, Vaughan additionally partook in the dramatic introducing of the demonstrations and meetings with Group GB competitors and medalists.
Vaughan took part in a 2018 episode of test show Futile Big names, arriving at the last round close by individual Radio X DJ Toby Tarrant. In 2023 Vaughan rejoined with his previous partner Denise Van Switch off to introduce an episode of Steph’s Pressed Lunch.
