Justin Lee Collins Biography
Justin Lee Collins is a Bristol-born former actor and radio and television host. He conducted his own radio show on XFM from 2003 until 2005.
How old is Justin Lee Collins? – Age
He is 48 years old as of 28 July 2022. He was born in 1974 in Bristol, United Kingdom. His real name is Justin Lee Collins.
Justin Lee Collins Family
Collins is the son of Anita and Danny Collins. His father worked for himself as an electrician. Collins is the only child in the family. He dropped out of Speedwell Secondary School at the age of 15 and began working as a warehouseman for Marks & Spencer.
Justin Lee Collins Husband
Collins married Karen Lee in 2003. In May 2005, she gave birth to their first child, a son. Collins stated in January 2008 that his wife had recently given birth to their second son. Collins divorced his wife in late 2010.
Justin Lee Collins Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Justin Lee Collins Good Times
Collins’ autobiography, Good Times!, was published by Ebury Press in September 2009. Then came an audiobook.
Justin Lee Collins Stand-Up
Collins began his entertainment career as a stand-up comic while also working part-time as a double-glazing window demonstrator. In 1997, he won the Best New Comedy Act award at the Glastonbury Festival and made the finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Collins retired from stand-up comedy in 2002 to focus on TV and radio hosting, declaring that he would never return to the business.
Collins won the category Funniest Man at Loaded’s Lafta awards in 2007 and 2010. Collins practiced at the Cambridge Theatre for his role as Amos Hart in the blockbuster play Chicago in 2008. Collins played Dennis Dupree in the West End version of Rock of Ages from August 2011 to September 2012. Collins made a one-night-only comeback to stand-up comedy in 2013 when he performed at Helen Lederer’s “What’s the Fuss?” event.
Justin Lee Collins BBC Radio 2
Collins began hosting a radio show on XFM in 2003, first on Sundays from 1 to 3 a.m., then on Saturday afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m. He left in December 2005 and returned in April 2011 to host the Saturday 2 to 6 p.m. slot. Collins filled in on Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday show on BBC Radio 2 on September 17, that year. Collins was heard impersonating Tom Jones on BBC Radio 1’s Chris Moyles show in January 2008.
Collins returned to radio in 2014 with his own weekly show on Fubar Radio, an uncensored station co-hosted by Andy Parsons and Mark Dolan. The show is also available as a podcast on iTunes.
Justin Lee Collins Channel 4
Collins hosted The Games: Live At Trackside on E4 with Caroline Flack in 2005 and 2006. The series ran with Channel 4’s sports-themed reality show The Games. He was a Flipside TV presenter for Channel 4 and Paramount. He starred in The Convention-Crasher, a Channel 4 show that aired in late 2007 and early 2008, in which he mastered clowning and ventriloquism in order to win prizes at professional conventions.
When Paul O’Grady went on leave on May 7, 2007, he appeared as a guest on The New Paul O’Grady Show on Channel 4. On 22 June 2008, Collins went on Top Gear alongside Alan Carr for the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segment.
Justin Lee Collins Career
In June 2008, a show was broadcasted on Sky One entitled Justin Lee Collins: 180, which came about as a result of his pursuit of professional darts playing. He worked out with Keith Deller on the show, and on June 15, 2008, he participated in the BDO International Open. He lost in the first cycle 3-0 in quite a while to district player Stuart Bousfield, who was in the main 100 in the BDO rankings at that point.
The Justin Lee Collins Show, which aired on ITV2 from March to May 2009 and cost £3 million to produce, was a show about contemporary issues with a comedic twist. He took over as host of the Sky 1 show Oops tv that same year, which features home videos of people doing stupid things and things going horribly wrong. That August he showed up on JLC Is, a six-section series on Sky 1 HD portraying the comic taking on difficulties to turn into a Mexican grappler, a surfer, a formal dancer, a ten-pin bowler, a high jumper and a West End star.
The next month on 11 September, while being consulted on BBC Radio 1’s Chris Moyles Show it was declared Collins had marked an elite arrangement with Channel 5, and he affirmed he would consequently not be making one more series of The Justin Lee Collins Show for ITV2. On joining Five he facilitated the game show Heads Or Tails, where players could win up to £1m by accurately calling coin flips, and a talk show called Great Times which was dropped because of unfortunate review figures.
Justin Lee Collins writes: The Grappler, Collins trains for 10 days in Mexico with a Mexican drag queen Luchador (Mexican grappler) who battles under the name Cassandro, as an exotico. With his own wrestling mask, Justin transforms into El Glorioso, or the Glorious Lee One, a rudo (bad guy) Luchador. His persona is given the gift of El Hijo del Santo (The Child of Holy person). Justin fights Cassan Dro in a Lucha Libre event at the Roundhouse when he returns to London. He loses and is unmasked.
Collins was cast as Stan in the 2014 British movie The Hatching. Michael Anderson directed it. Collins stars close by Andrew Potts and Thomas Turgoose. He had a small role in the Stephen Hyams-directed time travel comedy Time Slips the following year. Four years after his conviction, Collins returned to television in August 2016, becoming a regular presenter on FanTV. A few months later, the show was canceled because it only attracted a small audience.