Christian O'Connell
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Christian Liam O'Connell (born 7 April 1973 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British radio DJ, TV presenter, and comedian who performs The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne.
He appeared on Virgin Radio on weekday mornings from March 2006, which became Absolute Radio in September 2008, to May 2018. He has received a record breaking number of radio awards, including 11 Sony Radio Academy Gold awards, the Radio Academy Gold Award in May 2018, and runner-up in the Crabbie's Ginger Wine Grand National in 2014.
He was the youngest radio host to be inducted into the UK Radio Academy Hall of Fame in 2014.
In 2013, he appeared at three sold-out tours of the International Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival.
Both 2014 and 2015.
He published a book The Men Commandments in September 2008 (Harper Collins), and in 2017 he published a children's book "Radio Boy." (Harper Collins) He has appeared on European, Australian, and American radio shows and has appeared on television shows.
At the London Palladium 2016 and the Stand Up to Cancer exhibition, he hosted the MacMillan Cancer comedy performance.
Between 2013 and 2017, he has hosted the Q Awards. O'Connell revealed in February 2018 that he would leave Absolute Radio and emigrating to Australia to host the Gold 104.3 breakfast program in Melbourne.
On 18 May 2018, he appeared at The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show before unveiling the new breakfast show on Gold 104.3 on June 4, 2018, which included his long-running quiz 'Yay or Neigh'.
Personal life
O'Connell was born in Winchester, England, where he was raised on a council estate. His father, who was of Irish descent, was a Ford foreman in Southampton, and his mother was a NHS nurse. His maternal grandmother, who served with the Gurkhas in Burma, was Indian, and she knew her husband, who competed with the Gurkhas in Burma, India. Both O'Connell and his wife have two children.
O'Connell attended Henry Beaufort School and Peter Symonds College before arriving at Nottingham Trent University. He supports Premier League football team Southampton F.C. Melbourne Demons, an Australian Football League team, are looking for a new challenge.
Career
O'Connell's first job was as a dustman in Winchester at the age of 16 to earn some cash in the Christmas holidays. Christian started out on 2CR Radio in Bournemouth in 1998. He later moved to Juice FM in Liverpool in 2000. He commented "It was a budget, tin-pot station. They didn't have a lot of money." He formerly hosted BBC Radio 5 Live's weekend sports game show Fighting Talk from 2004-2006 and the 2013–14 season, the other presenters being BBC Football Commentator Jonathan Pearce and This Morning presenter Matt Johnson.
He previously hosted the Breakfast Show on indie music station XFM London (January 2001 to October 2005) where he was particularly fond of The Sugarcubes. O'Connell joined the Virgin Radio team making his first broadcast on 23 January 2006. He celebrated his 10th year at Virgin (changed in September 2008 to Absolute) by giving his listeners free tins of food.
Television career
O'Connell has appeared as a guest on a BBC2 sports show with Dickie Davies as one of the fellow guests. In 2003, Christian replaced Chris Moyles on Channel 5's Live With... show and went on to present trivia show "Pub Ammo" in 2004 on the same channel. In 2005 he also appeared on BBC2's Eggheads quiz show with Chris Smith, Roque Segade-Vieito and an Xfm listener as the other panelists on his (losing) team. He has also narrated Channel 4's Rock School.
In May 2006, O'Connell fronted Sunday Service; a Chris Evans style Sunday evening show on Sky One. In June 2006, O'Connell started his own world cup show, World Cuppa on ITV4.
In November 2006, he appeared on the BBC TV gameshow The Weakest Link. The show, recorded in early November, was shown at Christmas 2006. O'Connell admitted on his breakfast show that he went out in the 3rd round after being voted off by his fellow contestants. He blames this on his ridiculous answer to the question "Which has more legs than the other? A dog or a duck?" O'Connell answered "Neither, it's a trick question, they have the same". O'Connell appeared as a guest in a September 2008 episode of Loose Women and Ready Steady Cook to promote his book, and was reminded of his previous Weakest Link ordeal by Zoe Tyler. He later appeared a second time on a Radio DJ special in mid-2009, but fared much better, being voted off in Round 7. In February 2010, O'Connell appeared as a presenter, commentator and interviewer for the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA), in a similar role to the UFC's Joe Rogan. He then went on to host BT Sports Beyond the Octagon.
He has appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcoks, 5th Gear, MTV Countdown, Pointless, Win Lose or Draw. and Channel 4 Racing.
O'Connell was the inspiration behind the character Jed Maxwell, the crazed fan in an episode of I'm Alan Partridge.
On 18 January 2015, O'Connell hosted An Evening with Top Gear live on the official Top Gear YouTube channel where he interviewed James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson about their then-upcoming 22nd series of the show.
On 17 October 2017, O'Connell took part on The Chase, but failed to make it past the first round before being eliminated from the game.
In May 2019, he made a brief cameo in the long running Australian Sitcom- Neighbours as 'Englishman at a Wedding Fayre'.