Alan Carr
Alan Carr was born in Weymouth, England, United Kingdom on June 14th, 1976 and is the Comedian. At the age of 47, Alan Carr biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian and television personality. Carr was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and spent most of his childhood in Northampton before moving to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, where he began his comedy career.
Carr's breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards.
In the ensuing years, his career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became well known for hosting The Friday Night Project with Justin Lee Collins.
This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong in 2008 and, eventually, his popular comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which aired on Channel 4 between 2009 and 2016.
Carr often stands in as a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Carr also hosted a radio show, Going Out with Alan Carr, on BBC Radio 2 for three years as well as releasing his autobiography Look Who It Is! (2008) and going on three arena tours: Tooth Fairy Live (2007), Spexy Beast Live (2011) and Yap, Yap, Yap! (2015).
In 2019, Carr became a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Carr has won two British Comedy Awards, two National Television Awards and a BAFTA TV Award.
Early life
Alan Graham Carr was born on 14 June 1976 in Weymouth, Dorset, oldest son of Christine and Graham Carr, and spent the majority of his childhood in Northampton. His father, whose family comes from the North East of England, is a former Northampton Town manager and Newcastle United chief scout. Carr has a younger brother, Gary.
Carr went to Weston Favel High School in Northampton and graduated from Middlesex University with a 2:1 BA (Hons) degree in Drama and Theatre Studies.
After completing his degree in his early 20s, Carr moved to Manchester, seeking a better life and aspiring to be a comedian. He lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy after which he moved to Stretford, which he cites as an inspiration for his comedic work. Carr worked in a call centre for five years and performed on the comedy circuit in his spare time, before moving into comedy as a full-time career.
Personal life
Carr is openly gay, but does not consider his sexuality to be a focal part of his act, once saying, "I just think gay people need to get over themselves. Just because you're gay and on the telly doesn't mean you're a role model. I'm just a comedian. That's all I am. What am I meant to do? Do I go down the Julian Clary route and talk about fisting and poppers? I don't talk about being gay and I think what better equality for gays than that?" According to Carr, he has been comfortable with his sexuality from a very young age. When Eddie Izzard was a guest on Chatty Man and asked Carr when he came out of the closet, he replied that he was "never really in" and other children were already making fun of his camp behaviour when he was eight or nine years old.
In January 2018, Carr married his partner of ten years, Paul Drayton, in Los Angeles. The wedding was officiated by his best friend Adele. The couple announced their separation in January 2022 following Drayton's conviction for drink-driving.
Career
In 2005 and 2006, Carr's early television career included guest appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats and The Law of the Playground. The Friday Night Project, hosted by He and Justin Lee Collins from 2006 to 2009, was canceled after the end of series eight in February 2009. Carr continued to host two series of Channel 4's game show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong from 2007-2009, as well as the chat show Alan Carr's Chatty Man, which aired for 16 series between 2009 and 2017.
On Christmas Day 2007, Carr made his radio presenting debut on BBC Radio 2 as part of their Festive Highlights from Alan Carr's Christmas Box. On February and June 8, 2008, Adam and Joe performed on BBC Radio 6 Music, and co-presented The Russell Brand Show on October 4, 2008. In 2008, Alan Carr's Comedian Outings appeared on BBC Radio 2 for the first time.
Carr began hosting Going Out with Alan Carr, a new show for BBC Radio 2, in association with Emma Forbes (later replaced by Melanie Sykes). Every Saturday evening, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., the program was broadcast every Saturday evening. On March 6, 2012, it was announced that he had made the decision to leave to concentrate on his Chatty Man show. His last performance was on March 31, 2012. Carr was replaced by Liza Tarbuck after she was spotted on the bus. On Boxing Day 2015, he returned for a one-off display on the station.
Carr was back to BBC Radio 2 in January/February 2017 to appear on Paul O'Grady on his Sunday show for four weeks. On BBC Radio 2's yearly calendar from 2017 to 2020, Carr reunited with Sykes to host Summer Escapes, from July to September, from 2017 to its final run in 2020 following Norton's departure from the station in 2020. It contained information based around the British Seaside Survey, as well as the British Seaside Survey.
Carr performs stand-up regularly, on tour and on television. In his 20s, he performed with comedy legends Jason Manford, Justin Moorhouse, and John Bishop, and held his own monthly comedy and cabaret show Alan Carr's Ice Cream on Sunday at the Manchester Comedy Store.
Carr received the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2001.
He has appeared in three Edinburgh shows and has appeared on televisions as a pioneer, as well as a DVD entitled Tooth Fairy Live in 2007. He appeared at the Apollo Theatre in London, which was televised for the BBC One's Live at the Apollo, and was included in the Royal Variety Performance.
He has appeared and appeared at many festivals, including the Reading and Leeds Festivals, the Latitude Festival, and Kilkenny's Comedy Festival. He has appeared at comedy festivals around the world, including an appearance at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.
Carr appeared in Channel 4's Comedy Gala in March 2010, a charity benefit concert held at the 02 Arena in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.