Jonathan Wilkes
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Jonathan Wilkes (born 1 August 1978) is an English entertainer, who is famous due to being a close friend of Robbie Williams.
Personal life
Wilkes attended City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College. He is a boyhood fan of Port Vale like his friend Robbie Williams.
While working for the BBC, he lived in London with his friend Robbie Williams in Williams' mansion. Also while at the BBC, he met his wife Nikki. The couple live in Royal Wootton Bassett.
In September 2013, Wilkes opened his own full-time performing arts college called Wilkes Academy. The patrons of the academy include Ant and Dec, Arlene Phillips and his friend Robbie Williams. The college is based in Swindon.
Early life and career
Jonathan Wilkes was born in Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent, to Eileen Wilkes and Graham Wilkes, and spent the majority of his childhood in Packmoor, an outlying village of Chell, with his companion Robbie Williams. Kay is his older sister. He signed for Port Vale FC as a youth and played for Everton FC as a youth. Due to his inability to 'eat, sleep, and breathe football, he was kicked from the team.'
Hans Christian Andersen's debut on stage was his first appearance in a Stoke Amateur Operatic Society production, starring Robbie Williams.
He received the Cameron Mackintosh Young Entertainer of the Year Award in 1996. He went on to work in Blackpool under the alias 'Jonathan and the Space Girls,' before being hired by BBC News' Kevin Bishop, who worked with him as a host for the precursor channel to BBC3. He has since worked in West End Musicals and has performed the film You've Been Framed!
Wilkes had a short stint as a pop-music artist, like his buddy Robbie Williams, before he signed a Virgin Records deal. His single "Just Another Day" debuted at No. 1. The United Kingdom Singles Chart has a 24th place. The single ranked in 18 countries around the world. During his brief singing career, he appeared with his buddy Robbie Williams at the Royal Albert Hall and performed Me and My Shadow together, which received raves. Wilkes later decided against making music in order to return to television and stage work, the former being his greatest passion.
Wilkes has performed panto for over twenty years, as a regular at the Regent Theatre Stoke since 2005.