Jack Whitehall

At 35 years old, Jack Whitehall has this physical status:

Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall (born 7 July 1988) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, and writer.

He is best known for his comedic act in the television series Fresh Meat (2011–2016), and for his role in Alfie Wickers in the TV series Bad Education (2012–2014) and the spin-off film The Bad Education Movie (2015), both of which he co-wrote. Whitehall appeared on the game show A League of Their Own from 2012 to 2018.

In 2017, Whitehall appeared alongside his father, Michael, in the Netflix comedy film Travelers with My Father, and in the television series Decline and Fall.

Since 2018, Whitehall has been the host of the BRIT Awards.

Early life

Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall was born in West End, London, on July 7, 1988, the son of actress Hilary Jane Whitehall (née Isbister; stage name Hilary Gish) and television producer Michael John Whitehall. He has a younger sister and a brother. His father was also an agent for Judi Dench, Colin Firth, and Richard Griffiths. Whitehall is a descendant of Welsh lawyer Thomas Phillips, who was a leading proponent of the Newport Rising of 1839. Nigel Havers and Richard Griffiths were two of his godfathers: actors Nigel Havers and Richard Griffiths. He attended Tower House School in London's East Sheen district, where he was a schoolmate of actor Robert Pattinson. He has often resentmentled Pattinson for playing all of the best acting roles in the school plays. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Whitehall auditioned for the title role, but the casting director was unimpressed with him because he hadn't read the script. At the age of eight, his parents took him to boarding school. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then Marlborough College, two independent colleges. He spent a year in which he decided to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. He went to the University of Manchester to study History of Art, but he was forced to withdraw after two terms.

Personal life

Gemma Chan appeared on his film Fresh Meat in 2011. They didn't appear until December 2017. He has been in a relationship with model Roxy Horner since 2020.

Arsenal F.C.'s Whitehall is a long fan of the club. Tony Khan is a friend of Tony Khan and has attended Jacksonville Jaguars games.

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Career

Whitehall (then age nine) appeared in the series Noah's Ark in 1997. Whitehall appeared on the first week of Big Brother's Big Mouth in June 2008. The twelfth week in August saw him for the first week. Whitehall's 8 out of ten Cats took home in September and November.

He appeared on The Sunday Night Project in January 2009 and named Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth. He appeared on 8 Out of ten Cats for his third appearance on June 5th. Holly Walsh, a writer on Channel 4, co-presented the TNT Show, a satire film that appeared in June 2009. He appeared on Charlie Brooker's channel 4 panel show You Have Been Watching in August and then in September on Will I lie to You? He made his first appearance on BBC Two's satirical panel show Mock the Week this week, and in October, he co-presented an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Whitehall made his fourth appearance in 8 out of 10 Cats in January, his second appearance on Mock the Week and his first appearance on Argumentation on Dave. In April, he appeared on Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, which had been filmed live at The O2 Arena in London. He appeared on James Corden's sport show A League of Their Own in April, and on June 11, he made his fifth appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats, and his third appearance on Mock the Week in June. Whitehall appeared on the first series of Channel 4's Stand Up for the Week in June and July 2010, alongside Andi Osho, Kevin Bridges, Rich Hall, and host Patrick Kielty. In September, he made his sixth appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats, and in September and October, his fourth and fifth appearances on Mock the Week. He appeared on a second episode of Argumentation in October and paid tribute to Big Brother host Davina McCall on Channel 4's A Comedy Roast. He headlined the second episode of Dave's One Night Stand in October, then appeared on A League of Their Own in second, and on Monday, he appeared on Ask Rhod Gilbert. In December, he appeared on the Royal Variety Performance 2010 in December, and in December he appeared on the sixth series of Live at the Apollo, which had been shot on the 27th of September.

In February 2011, Whitehall appeared on Comedy Central Presents Jack Whitehall in the United States. He appeared on BBC football programme Final Score in March, covering Arsenal's 0–0 draw with Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium. From March to May, Whitehall appeared on Channel 4's Stand Up for the Week as a regular performer, with Andi Osho, Kevin Bridges, and Rich Hall. The Comic Relief show ran into the early hours of the morning in March with a collection of the best comedy clips of the last few years. He made his debut on a U.S. chat show, interviewed by Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May 2011. Whitehall appeared in June on Channel 4's second annual Comedy Gala, which had been shot in May. He made his seventh appearance on 8 Out of ten Cats in June.

Whitehall appeared on Channel 4's King Of... with Lorraine Kelly, presented by Claudia Winkleman. He appeared on Mock the Week for the sixth week in a row, and he appeared on the British version of The Marriage Ref with Jack Dee and Katherine Kelly. In September, Chris Moyles' Quiz Night, hosted by BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles, made his second appearance on If I Lie to You? Whitehall made his acting debut in the Channel 4 comedy drama Fresh Meat, the Peep Show's creators. In the series, Whitehall plays J.P., a public school student who was unable to attend a "proper" university. The first series, in which he co-stars with Joe Thomas, ran until November 2011 and received critical acclaim. On Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, a second, third, and fourth series aired. Michael and his father Michael appeared on Davina McCall's The Million Pound Drop Live in September. It was revealed on Sunday that he would write and star in new BBC Three comedy Bad Education, which will be released on October 30.

Following Whitehall on a comedy tour of the country, he landed Hit The Road Jack, a six-part entertainment series on Channel 4, which began on January 20, 2012. In 2012, he became a regular panelist on SkyOne's fifth series A League of Their Own.

On BBC Three, Whitehall starred in a self-penned comedy drama series Bad Education, in which he plays Alfie, the "poorest teacher ever to grace the British education system and is a bigger boy than the ones he teaches." Mathew Horne, the headmaster, Sarah Solemani as Miss Gulliver, the biology instructor, and Michelle Gomez as Miss Pickwell, deputy head. In 2015, Whitehall appeared in a film adaptation of Bad Education about a school trip to Cornwall. The film was supposed to be titled The Bad Education Movie.

Whitehall was guest chairman of Have I Got News for You on November 30, 2012 (season 44, broadcast 7). In an interview with Mark Lawson of BBC Radio 4's Front Row, he promoted his first DVD on January 3, 2013. He appeared in the Old Vic's charity gala '24 Hour Plays,' where a string of ten-minute plays were developed, rehearsed, and performed within 24 hours on November 24. Also in 2013, Whitehall lent his voice to the Disney animated film Frozen as a troll priest named Gothi. Jack Whitehall claims he was deleted from the film during his stand-up routine, but his lines are included in the finished film.

In February 2014, a Whitehall guest appeared on Top Gear for the first time and drove on the Top Gear Test Track. In December 2014, he appeared in the second series of The Life of Rock with Brian Pern, which was broadcast on BBC Two. Hugo appeared in "La Couchette," the first episode of the second series of anthology drama Inside No. 4. 9.

Whitehall, the host of the Feeling Nuts Movement's inaugural event on Channel 4, raising the threat of testicular cancer.

Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father, a travel documentary/road trip film in which he and his father Michael Whitehall spent five weeks in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, appeared in 2017. The show was first seen on Netflix. Whitehall was proclaimed as the next host of the BRIT Awards on December 8, 2017, taking over from 2017's hosts, Dermot O'Leary and Emma Willis.

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At the Pleasance Theatre's Comedy Reserve showcase, Whitehall performed stand-up comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Comic Abuse had previously performed a sketch show at the Fringe. Whitehall won the Amused Moose Laugh Off 2007 and was runner-up in the Laughing Horse New Act of The Year competition, a finalist in So You Think You're Funny? and the winner of the Charlie Harthill Special Reserve in the same year. He was also selected for 'Best Newcomer' in the 2008 Chortle Awards, and he was also selected for the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year.

Nearly Rebellious, Whitehall's first solo stand-up performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2009. He had been nominated for 'Best Newcomer' at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards earlier this year. For his critically acclaimed Nearly Rebellious exhibition in September 2009, Whitehall was accused of stealing one of Stewart Lee's stand-up routines. After walking in space, Lee performed the parody, which concerns the life of an explorer, at the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival in the 1990s, and the Comedy Network broadcasted it on television. By an otherwise positive review for Metro, Whitehall characterized Lee's sketch as "repeating" his version of the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009.

Robbie Williams was accused of stealing one of Whitehall's parody jokes in his much-publicized "comeback" appearance at the Camden Roundhouse on October 20th. In a poll conducted by TV channel Dave, Whitehall first performed the one-liner, which plays on the phrasal verb "to look down on someone," it was voted the fifth best joke of the year's Edinburgh Fringe.

A photograph of Whitehall appeared in the News of the World on June 20, 2010, reportedly showing him in possession of cocaine in Manchester. He quickly apologised for his conduct, but did not confirm or deny charges. Whitehall appeared on the first episode of Stand Up for the Week with fellow comedian Patrick Kielty, who had the opportunity to casually refer to the article.

Whitehall appeared on Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a charity benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, and was broadcast on 5 April at The O2 Arena in London. Whitehall appeared at the Montreal Just for Laughs comedy festival in July and returned to Edinburgh in August with his second solo display, Learning Difficulties. Whitehall appeared at the Apollo, Hammersmith, in front of a full audience on a recording of the sixth series of Live at the Apollo, which aired on December 17th. He was also chosen by Variety as one of the top ten actors of the future in 2010.

The British Comedy Awards had nominated Whitehall for 'Best Comedy Breakthrough' in January 2011. On a British Airways flight in aid of Comic Relief, he launched a new Guinness World Records title together with Dara Briain and Jon Richardson on March 12 for presenting the world's biggest stand-up comedy festival.' On May 24, Whitehall appeared in the second annual Channel 4's Comedian Gala, which aired on June 10th.

Whitehall performed two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2011. Let's Not Speak of This Again, his third solo stand-up performance in succession. Backchat, Michael Whitehall's father, was also sold out, on a series of four stand-up shows. Both authors received very favorable feedback.

He appeared in Dave's first series of Dave's One Night Standouts. The Haymarket Theatre in London is hosting a stand-up performance. Special guests appeared as support on the program.

Whitehall presented two sell-out solo shows at the Hammersmith Apollo in November 2011. These shows were part of his debut national tour Let's Not Speak of This Again. Both shows have received high praise once more.

On the 30th of December 2012, Whitehall appeared on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, in which he made a quip about Queen Elizabeth II. Ofcom received complaints about the joke on the next day. Following widespread media rumors, the National Television Awards announced publicly that Whitehall would not be compelled to resign from presenting the awards a short time later.

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Awards

• Winner: King of Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2012, 2013, 2014
• Winner: Best TV Comedy Actor, British Comedy Awards 2013