Jon Holmes Biography
Jon Holmes is a British comedian, writer, presenter, and broadcaster who has been on shows such as The Skewer, The Now Show, Listen Against (BBC Radio 4), as well as music and spoken word radio. He has been on a number of television shows.
How old is Jon Holmes? – Age
He is 50 years old as of 24 April 2023. He was born in 1973 in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.
Jon Holmes Family – Education
Holmes grew up in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Holmes was adopted when he was one month old. He attended Canterbury Christ Church College and graduated with a dual degree in English, radio, film, and TV. He became associated with the university radio station C4 Radio, as well as writing, directing, and performing in different student revue productions; he later became a broadcaster for Canterbury’s local radio station KMFM Canterbury (formerly CTFM).
Jon Holmes Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $57 million.
Jon Holmes Radio X
On September 7, 2015, following a summer of press speculation that he might be replaced by veteran Radio 1 Breakfast DJ Chris Moyles, it was confirmed that Holmes would be moving from the daily breakfast show to its weekend counterpart as part of the station’s relaunch as Radio X. It was also reported that Moyles would host the new station’s breakfast program, directly competing with his Radio 1 replacement, Nick Grimshaw.
Jon Holmes BBC Radio 2
Holmes occasionally fills absent Radio 2 presenters with co-host Miranda Hart. In October 2011, he received flak for co-hosting The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Hart while Chris Evans was on vacation. According to Digital Spy, some listeners were dissatisfied with the programme’s quality. In response, the BBC made the following statement: “Miranda Hart is one of the UK’s best-loved comedians, and BBC Radio 2 considered it fitting to bring her warmth to its audience for a week. Holmes is a highly experienced presenter for BBC Radio 6 Music […] BBC Radio 2 realizes that their presentation was not to everyone’s preference, but believes it is crucial to be able to add new talent to its output and hopes its audience understands the need of having a diverse range of material on the network.”
In 2018, Holmes returned to Radio 2 with Jeremy Vine: Agony Uncle, which he created and appeared in as ‘Tim the producer’. It was a ‘behind the scenes look at what happens during The Jeremy Vine Show while the recordings are on’, with Lewis MacLeod playing Jeremy Vine. The premise had ‘Jeremy’ accepting phone calls and giving advise to various celebrities, performed by impressionists Terry Mynott and Jess Robinson. The show returned for a 2018 holiday special.
Jon Holmes Books
Holmes’ debut book, Status Quo and the Kangaroo, was released in hardback by Penguin in May 2007. It has since been published in Australia, Canada, the United States, and India, and has been translated into Russian. The paperback edition of Rock Star Babylon was released in the United Kingdom in September 2008. The Now Show Book of World Records, co-written by Holmes, Steve Punt, and Hugh Dennis, was published in 2009. He also co-authored (with Mitch Benn) The History of the World Through Twitter. Both novels were published in October 2009. He toured the UK in 2008/2009, reading from his book Rock Star Babylon (with footnotes narrated by Stephen Fry), and performed at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in August 2009.
Jon Holmes Career
After graduation, Holmes’ initial introduction to BBC radio parody was for BBC Radio 4 with his presentation satire series Shocking Substantially Radio in 1997. He likewise had a show on Power FM on Sunday evenings. The Jon and Andy Show (with Andy Hurst), which Holmes introduced during 1998-2000, won him a gold Sony Radio Foundation Grant for diversion. In 2001 Holmes co-made the Radio 4 show Carbon copies, for which he mutually won his second gold Sony, and the show moved to BBC Two TV.
Following this, the late-night Jon Holmes show on Virgin Radio ran from 2001 to 2002, yet Holmes was terminated after a few questionable tricks. Virgin was fined a record £75,000 for Holmes’ element “Swearing Radio Executioner for the Under-12s”, in which he convinced a nine-year-old young lady to explain and afterward rehash the expression “foamy tit wank”.
In the interim, on BBC Radio 4, Holmes was composing and showing up on The Now Show and The 99p Test, where he originally worked with Armando Iannucci. From that point forward he has worked with Iannucci on Slice (Channel 4, 2003) and Time Trumpet (BBC2, 2006), and in 2006 he accepted his 6th Sony Grant for his work on Radio 4’s Armando Iannucci’s Appeal Hostile.
He likewise facilitated a side project BBC Radio 7 radio series and official webcast of the American show series Legends, highlighting on BBC Two in the UK.
All through 2007, Holmes introduced the Friday evening drivetime show on London talk station LBC, leaving in January 2008 when the station’s new proprietors made the station more news-based. In November 2007 he started another Radio 4 series, Tune in Against, which he co-gave newsreader Alice Arnold. Series 2 started on Radio 4 in November 2008 and Series 3 was communicated in the mid year of 2010.
A BBC Radio 2 film board show, I’m Spartacus, broadcasted on the organization in April 2009 while likewise on Radio 2. Holmes co-composed and co-introduced The Day the Music Passed on close by Andrew Collins. He has likewise fronted his own BBC Radio 1 show and from 2006 to 2012 had his own end of the week show on BBC Radio 6 Music. Holmes was a customary supporter of the Radio 4 program Remaining details.
On 19 December 2012, it was declared that Holmes would be taking over from Danny Wallace as moderator of the XFM London breakfast show from 7 January 2013. A webcast to go with the show was delivered on 11 January 2013, diagramming at number 13 in the UK iTunes Web recording graph. The show ran on work days somewhere in the range of 6am and 10am. Holmes stood out as truly newsworthy again after a questionable kid about the Irish at the Colder time of year Olympics. Holmes was named for ‘Moderator of the Year’ at the 2015 Business Radio Honors.
In Walk 2016 it was declared that Holmes would move to the new-to-send off discourse station Talkradio to introduce the work day evening opening. Holmes left the station, and his last show was on 12 January 2018.
Following a pilot in 2019, since January 2020 Holmes has delivered his BBC Radio 4 soundscape dim parody The Stick. Between 2006 until 2012 Holmes introduced a BBC Radio 6 Music show each Saturday at 10am, where he “plays a few music and plays in the holes” close by his companion and companion David Whitehead and maker Adam Hudson. The organization of the show was like comedian Chris Morris’ public broadcasts from the last part of the 1980s and mid 1990s.
On Monday 7 Walk 2016, Holmes was uncovered to be the midday moderator on the recently sent off Talkradio. The show reached a conclusion on Friday 12 January 2018 because of a significant timetable change. In January 2018, Holmes joined computerized radio broadcast Virgin Radio UK introducing the Sunday drivetime show. He has routinely covered the morning meal and drivetime shows on work days since the station re-sent off in 2016. He left the station on Sunday 6 May 2018.
In August 2017, Holmes rejoined BBC Radio and joined BBC Radio Kent supplanting James Whale on Saturday mornings from 10am until 2pm, highlighting unrecorded music from a meeting studio. From January 2019 the show broadcast from 10am until 12pm.
Holmes is an eminent TV essayist and columnist, known for his work on different stages. He co-composed Opened up, a BBC Two survey of the year, Crackanory, and Ukip: The Initial 100 Days. He likewise co-composed BBC1’s The Impressions Show and Horrendous Accounts, winning two BAFTAs in 2010. Holmes has likewise co-introduced The Eleven O’Clock Show, V Graham Norton, and Cut, a daily legislative issues program.
In 2005, Holmes co-composed and script altered ITV1’s The Receptive Jon Culshaw, which was named for the Brilliant Rose of Montreux television Grant. He is likewise the voice of BBC Three’s 7 Days and Crash Test Danny for the Revelation Channel. Holmes has composed for different distributions, including The Gatekeeper, The Times, and the Radio Times. He has additionally co-composed Stephen Fry’s content for the BAFTA Film Grants and facilitated the Magic Honors and the Radio Creation Grants.
In 2021, various Hero Babylon stories were adjusted into a radio satire show called Rockanory, broadcast by Outright Radio. The series highlights Shaun Keaveny, Jon Culshaw, and Jake Yapp, with Holmes delivering and co-composing it with Gareth Ceredig. Holmes has likewise been a Sunday Times reporter and travel essayist.