Riyadh Khalaf Biography
Riyadh Khalaf is an Irish broadcaster, author, activist, and YouTube personality with experience in the media industries of Ireland, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
How old is Riyadh Khalaf? – Age
He is 33 years old as of 7 February 2024. He was born in 1991 in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Riyadh Khalaf Family – Education
Khalaf hails from Bray, County Wicklow, and was born to an Irish mother Lorraine and an Iraqi father, Sam. He attended the Newpark Comprehensive School in Blackrock. He opted to pursue a career in media after not performing well in his Leaving Certificate. He founded his own pirate radio station at the age of sixteen. He graduated from Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute and Ballyfermot College of Further Education with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Production Management.
Riyadh Khalaf Wife
Khalaf relocated to London in 2016. He owns a cat named Claire.
Riyadh Khalaf Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $ 2 million.
Riyadh Khalaf Career
Khalaf started his YouTube direct while still in school, despite the fact that his recordings before 2013 are presently not accessible. During his investigations at Ballyfermot, Khalaf landed radio gigs at Dublin’s 98FM and Twist 1038. Khalaf highlighted in the 2010 RTÉ One narrative series Growing Up Gay in which he talked about emerging to his at the time Catholic mother and Muslim dad.
That very year he participated in the Irish adaptation of Youthful, Stupid and Living Off Mum that was communicated on TV3. He likewise introduced for Ireland’s most memorable transitory LGBT+ radio broadcast, Open FM. He revealed for RTÉ’s Two Cylinder in 2012 and in 2013 for KIIS 106.5 in Sydney and KIIS 101.1 in Melbourne. Khalaf openly lobbied for marriage correspondence (the “Yes vote”) in the 2015 Irish established mandates. His family’s vehicles were gone after with corrosive accordingly.
After moving to London in 2016, Khalaf momentarily filled in as a video maker for MailOnline. In 2017, Khalaf introduced the six-section BBC Three narrative series Strange England and was a questioner for Pride in London’s Adoration Occurs Here YouTube series. He created and introduced a short narrative I Am… in 2017. In May 2018, he started facilitating a NSFW visit digital broadcast Startling Liquids for BBC Radio 1 with Alix Fox. Khalaf made and transferred Battling for Pride: Swaziland, a narrative to his YouTube channel as a component of #CreatorsForChange in 2018. Since November 2018, Khalaf has been a help moderator on BBC Radio 1.
In 2019, Khalaf distributed his presentation novel Yahoo! You’re Gay! What’s going on? A Gay Kid’s Manual for Life. That December, he partook in Superstar Driving force. Khalaf’s other introducing work incorporates the YouTube Red occasion Transfer #WithMe to fund-raise for the NHS during the Coronavirus pandemic and a BBC Sounds digital broadcast, Fixated on… Typical Individuals, with Evanna Lynch. He has intermittently taken care of business with BBC Radio 1 and visitor introduced The One Show. Khalaf won the fifteenth series of BBC One’s VIP MasterChef in 2020. He devoted his semi-last dishes to his dad.
Riyadh Khalaf Movies and TV Shows
♦ 2020 – Celebrity MasterChef
♦ 2020 – The One Show
♦ 2019 – Celebrity Mastermind
♦ 2017 – Queer Britain
♦ 2012 – Two Tube
♦ 2010 – Growing Up Gay
♦ 2010 – Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum