Nick Grimshaw Biography
Nick Grimshaw is an English television and radio host, podcaster, and author who rose to prominence as the host of several BBC Radio 1 broadcasts. He is also a TV presenter, having appeared on Channel 4’s T4 and The Album Chart Show. In 2015, he served as a judge on The X Factor’s twelveth season.
How old is Nick Grimshaw? – Age
He is 39 years old as of 14 August 2023. He was born in 1984 in Oldham, United Kingdom. His real name is Nicholas Peter Andrew Grimshaw.
Nick Grimshaw Family – Education
He studied Communication and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool from 2002 to 2005, but failed his final year and received a DipHE rather than a bachelor’s degree. Grimshaw was a member of the University of Liverpool’s student radio station, ICON Radio (now Liverpool Guild Student Media).
Nick Grimshaw Spouse
Grimshaw opened up about his sexual orientation on August 17, 2012. Grimshaw and Meshach ‘Mesh’ Henry, a dancer and model, got engaged in March 2022. He ranked eighth on The Independent on Sunday’s list of Britain’s 101 most influential LGBT persons in 2012. In 2014, GQ Magazine’s British version named Nick Grimshaw its Best-Dressed Man of the Year. Grimshaw has been an ambassador for The Albert Kennedy Trust, or Akt, a charity that helps homeless LGBT kids, since 2018.
Nick Grimshaw Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Nick Grimshaw Podcast
Grimshaw and Michelin-star chef Angela Hartnett have been co-hosting a weekly podcast called “Dish” with Waitrose since June 2022. Waitrose Limited, business as Waitrose & Partners, is a British supermarket brand formed in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, which was later shortened to Waitrose. It was purchased in 1937 by employee-owned store John Lewis Partnership, which continues to sell groceries under the brand. Its headquarters are in Bracknell, Berkshire.
As of April 2023, Waitrose & Partners operated 329 stores in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, including 65 “little Waitrose” convenience stores. They also export to 52 countries and have operations in the Middle East.
Nick Grimshaw Art
Grimshaw has demonstrated an interest in contemporary art and set design. During the Frieze Art Fair in 2016, he held a covert charity auction and sold one of his works.
He is an ambassador for the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2017, he was commissioned to design a Christmas tree to commemorate the Academy’s 250th anniversary. Grimshaw was interested in live music production and interned with stage designer Es Devlin in 2017.
Nick Grimshaw Radio
Grimshaw joined BBC Radio 1 in September 2007, introducing the BBC’s childhood strand Switch with dear companion and individual DJ Annie Macintosh. He facilitated the show for quite some time solo while Macintosh facilitated an end of the week noon space.
From October 2008 to May 2009, Grimshaw facilitated Radio 1’s End of the week Breakfast Show. Grimshaw then proceeded to introduce the 10 pm – 12 PM space on BBC Radio 1 on 1 June 2009, following the flight of Colin Murray. He routinely kidded about how long his situation at BBC Radio 1 would endure and whether he would really have the option to finish his extensive rundown of “1000 Collections Everybody Says You Ought to Pay attention To Yet We Have opportunity and energy To Play One Track So It Is right here” which was a daily component on his show. He figured out how to arrive at number 369, preceding he left for the morning meal show.
On 11 July 2012 it was reported that Grimshaw would supplant the well established Chris Moyles as host of Radio 1 Breakfast. The last live show was communicated on 12 September 2012, albeit the last show broadcast under the show’s name was a pre-recorded episode named “The 1000 Collections Show”. His most memorable breakfast show program was on 24 September 2012.
In November 2012, Grimshaw pulled in analysis from Wizardry Radio breakfast moderator Neil Fox for remarks he went with about Radio 1’s choice to preclude Robbie Williams’ “Sweets” from its Top notch playlist – allegedly due to being “excessively old” for the station’s objective segment. Occasionally later, Grimshaw was in newspaper titles when the papers being referred to guaranteed he would not advance Rihanna’s most recent collection since she dropped a meeting with him – a case which Grimshaw denied, taking note of that his censure was expected to be “facetious”.
On 24 October 2013, it was accounted for that Grimshaw’s Morning meal Show had 1,000,000 less audience members than Moyles’ and that its crowd adds were the most horrendously terrible for the station up north of 10 years, with BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 all beating it in the evaluations. At that point, Grimshaw’s show was near the record low of 5.5 million audience members, set by Sara Cox in 2003, around the finish of her three-year residency facilitating the show. In February 2014, the Morning meal Show recorded an upgrade of in excess of 700,000 audience members, which set the normal number of audience members each week to 6.3 million. In any case, on 15 Walk 2014, it was accounted for that Grimshaw had lost one more 510,000 audience members, for a week by week all out of 5.78 million. The BBC guaranteed that this was essential for the objective to draw in more youthful audience members, while shedding the over-25s.
In Walk 2014, he finished a twelve-hour bike ride for Game Alleviation. The occasion raised more than £115,000. Soon thereafter, he additionally partook in the Epic battle occasion as a feature of John Minister’s Group Priest.
In May 2015, Grimshaw’s Morning meal Show tumbled to 5.5 million audience members seven days, becoming attached with Sara Cox’s show for the most reduced number of audience members in Radio 1’s set of experiences. The station regulator Ben Cooper praised Grimshaw saying, “I’m satisfied that Grimmy doing I’ve requested from him by keeping his young crowd cheerful and driving away the over-30s.”. In August 2016, audience figures were accounted for to have dropped to 5.4 million, down long term on-year, and making it the most minimal stood by listening to breakfast show in the station’s set of experiences. In July 2017 the BBC affirmed that Grimshaw’s compensation was in the £350,000 – £399,999 section.
In October 2017, Grimshaw’s Morning meal Show tumbled to 4.93 million audience members seven days, the least listening figures for BBC Radio 1’s morning meal show since records started. Regulator Ben Cooper safeguarded the details and said it was still “the most important youth brand in the UK today”.
On 31 May 2018, it was reported that Grimshaw would leave the morning meal show and actually trading shows with Greg James. The move implied Grimshaw assumed control over the 4-7pm drivetime space. On 30 June 2021, Grimshaw declared he would leave Radio 1 following 14 years on air. His last show on the station was on 12 August 2021. On 29 May 2023 Grimshaw began facilitating The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio UK, for seven days, while Chris was on vacation.