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He has formerly hosted BBC Radio Five Live's weekend sports game show Fighting Talk alongside the weekday breakfast show on indie music station Xfm London. O'Connell joined the Virgin Radio team making his first broadcast on January 23, 2006. BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... Fighting Talk is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live during the English football season. ... In popular music, indie music (from independent) is any of a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by perceived independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach. ... Xfm London is a commercial radio station in the United Kingdom. ... Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. ... is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

O'Connell has an ironic style and sense of humour that some have found occasionally offensive, making use of irreverent features and sometimes mocking the music that he plays. “Ironic” redirects here. ... Offensive may relate to In sports or combat, the team which is attacking, pitching or moving forwards In language or morals, terms and concepts which are unacceptable to some people, such as swearing and profanity. ...

Radio career

Christian has presented shows on stations in Liverpool, Bournemouth and London, and whilst still at Xfm replaced Johnny Vaughan as presenter of Radio Five Live's Saturday morning sports show Fighting Talk after Vaughan left to present the Capital FM breakfast show. Christian presented his last regular show for Radio Five Live on the 31st of December 2005. Johnny Vaughan (born July 16, 1967) is an English writer and broadcaster. ... BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... Fighting Talk is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live during the English football season. ... The Capital Radio building in Leicester Square, London. ... is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Xfm London

When starting on Xfm, O'Connell ironically promoted his show as the "18th most listened to breakfast show in London" though by the time he left was proudly touting it as the 11th most popular, with 349,000 Londoners tuning in every week (399,000 nationally) - the station's best ever figures up to that point. In 2004 O'Connell won the DJ of the year award, and in 2005 best breakfast show and best entertainer at the Sony Awards. He and his team (Chris Smith, sidekick and news reader; Roque Segade-Vieito, producer and; Head of Audio Comedy Brian Murphy) were subsequently poached by Virgin Radio to present their weekday national breakfast show. The Sony Radio Academy Awards (the Sonys), started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. ... Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. ...

The show yielded a top 10 single in June 2004, with the infectious football anthem 'Born in England', written by listeners the Wheatley brothers, and featuring such luminaries as the Delays and Bernard Butler. It also provided UK radio with its first ever live radio vasectomy, when Roque had the snip live on air. O'Connell also got ordained as a priest in Las Vegas and presided over the marriage of Roque to his glamourous Spanish bride. Vasectomy is a permanent birth control method for men. ...

On one memorable occasion in 2003, O'Connell interviewed a lady who had been attacked in Weymouth by a fierce seagull. The interview proceeded with O'Connell playing various bird-related sound effects in the background, at increasing volume, and to the increasing irritation of the interviewee. Smith suggested that it was possibly the most puerile interview that they had ever featured.

When O'Connell had a family feud with his own grandmother, he enlisted a surrogate gran in the form of Nana Jean, a genial old biddy from Herne Bay, who frequently appeared on the phone to offer her views on some of the news stories of the week, as well as dispensing her wise advice. She also won a mobility scooter from O'Connell, and appeared on his short-lived TV show by way of gratitude. Her appearances would be heralded by the backing track from The Jean Genie by David Bowie. Nana Jean was also a regular helper at the Herne Bay Blind Club, which formed the basis of some regular juvenile comedy banter from O'Connell. She departed the show in controversial circumstances after her outspoken husband John made some comments on air about a family feud of their own, but O'Connell has occasionally suggested that she may be revived on occasion on his new Virgin breakfast show. The Jean Genie was a single by David Bowie. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ...

A range of light-entertainment personalities guested on the show during its five-year run, including glamour model Jordan, putanesca sauce entrepreneur Loyd Grossman, now-deceased psycopath teacher Mr Bronson (played by Michael Sheard) from Grange Hill, and tap-dancing raconteur Lionel Blair, who not only taught O'Connell how to tap-dance on his desk, but also introduced Christopher Biggins as a surprise guest. What blossomed into a strong mutual respect and admiration between Blair and O'Connell had started inauspiciously some months previously, when Blair had been the subject of a wind-up call, and exclaimed live on air "Is this a piss-take?" Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA (born September 16, 1950) is an English-American television presenter and chef who mainly works in the United Kingdom. ... Michael Sheard Michael Sheard (born 18 June 1940 in Aberdeen, died 31 August 2005) was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and television programmes. ... Grange Hill is a British childrens television drama series which is shown on BBC One. ... Lionel Blair (born Lionel Ogus on 12 December 1931 in Montreal, Canada) is a British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter. ... Christopher Biggins (born 16 December 1948 in Oldham, Lancashire) is a British actor well recognised on British television. ...

O'Connell also frequently introduced Australian guests by playing clips of Meryl Streep in the 1980s film A Cry in the Dark, screeching 'The dingo's got my baby'. The most well-known Australian guest became Damon Green, a frequently exasperated caller from the Oval in south London, who called O'Connell a 'spazmoid' on his final show. Mary Louise Streep, mostly known as Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an Academy Award-winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ... A Cry in the Dark (US and Europe title) or Evil Angels (Australian title) is a film (1988 release) based on the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain, a ten-week-old baby girl who went missing from a campground near Uluru (Ayers Rock) on 17 August 1980. ... This oval, with only one axis of symmetry, resembles a chicken egg. ...

O'Connell presented his final Xfm breakfast show on the 21st of October 2005, after which Shaun Keaveny deputised until the 31st of October when former singer with indie band Kenickie and Xfm drivetime presenter Lauren Laverne took up the position on a full time basis. is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Shaun Keaveny (born June 14, 1972) is a British radio DJ from Leigh in Greater Manchester. ... is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Kenickie were a four-piece punk-indie band from Sunderland, England. ... Xfm logo Xfm is a brand of commercial radio stations focused on current and unsigned alternative music and owned by GCap Media in the United Kingdom. ... Drivetime Automotive Group, Inc. ... Lauren Laverne in 2007 Lauren Laverne (born Lauren Gofton on 28 April 1978 in Sunderland, England) is a disc jockey, television presenter and former singer. ...

Virgin Radio

O'Connell's departure from Xfm in October 2005 triggered a clause in his contract that prevented him from beginning another breakfast show within 3 months. His period of 'gardening leave' ended in mid January 2006, when he then succeeded Pete & Geoff on the Virgin Radio breakfast show, alongside his Xfm team of Chris Smith, Brian Murphy and Roque Segade-Vieito, the show producer. The duo of Pete and Geoff were DJs Pete Mitchell and Geoff Lloyd, who from January 2003 to December 2005 hosted the breakfast show on Virgin Radio. ... Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. ...

This was his first high-profile national radio show, beginning on the 23rd of January 2006. At the start of his first show O'Connell made light of the fact he had previously made fun of Virgin Radio while working for London rival Xfm (in an interview he had claimed he wouldn't want to switch because he couldn't bear to play Phil Collins) - before deciding to switch stations - but made no derogatory comments about his former station or replacement host, Lauren Laverne. In fact, Laverne is said to have made a brief but polite reference to O'Connell's return to radio during her show. In a May 2006 interview in "The Independent", O'Connell referred in complimentary terms to Xfm and his successor, adding that the reason he left was that Virgin were offering him more resources to develop show ideas, but praising Laverne as being genuinely talented and creative. is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Phil Collins (disambiguation). ... The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...

To launch the Virgin breakfast show, O'Connell imported the old Bounty Hunter feature from his Xfm show as 'Who's Calling Christian' - in which a bounty of £20,000 was offered to the listener who managed to attract the best celebrity to call into the show. It was won by former James Bond and charity ambassador Sir Roger Moore, who struck up such a rapport with Christian that he was invited to call him 'Rog'. Previous winners of the similar contest on Xfm had been 24 (TV series) star Kiefer Sutherland, saucy actress Kate Winslet, and television heroes Richard & Judy. Madeley clinched the prize for the duo by informing male listeners to the show how they could make their manhoods appear larger. For other persons named Roger Moore, see Roger Moore (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see 24 (disambiguation). ... Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian television and film actor, well known for his role of Jack Bauer on the series 24. ... Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five time Academy Award-nominated Emmy Award-nominated BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. ... Richard & Judy is an afternoon magazine/talk-show in the UK presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. ...

Another popular feature of the show, which was carried over from Xfm is the 'Begging Emails', in which listeners write or email in pleas to win Breakfast Show bounty, including Roberts Digital Radios. Despite producer Roque's attempts to control the number of radios being awarded, newsman Chris Smith can regularly be heard encouraging O'Connell to give away more than he is allowed.

In April 2006, Head of Audio Comedy Brian Murphy raised over £700 for charity by running the London Marathon in just over 4 and a half hours. This was seen by many as a penance for several lame comedy features that he had been responsible for. Currently, Murphy (who has a fridge in his bedroom) provides a daily update from Big Brother, which O'Connell professes to find tiresome, as his preference is for Springwatch with Bill Oddie, whom he has interviewed on occasions. For the current series, see Big Brother 2007 (UK). ... Springwatch with Bill Oddie is a live BBC TV show, broadcast nightly, Monday - Thursday, from 30 May - 16 June 2005. ... William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire), is a British comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ...

Another popular strand within the show, also brought over from Xfm is titled 'No Sex Please, I'm Christian' (formerly 'Sexline Rodeo'), in which listeners are invited to guess how long O'Connell can keep a sex chatline worker talking about nonsense before she inevitably initiates lewd conversation.

The links to the show were provided by the actor Brian Blessed, and frequently featured innendo regarding his chipolata. Brian Blessed (pronounced //, or in the tradition of English poetry, Blessèd, born near Doncaster,October 9, 1937) is an English actor, who came to fame as PC Fancy Smith in the BBC TV police drama series Z Cars. ...

O'Connell's sidekick and newsreader Chris Smith is a talented impressionist - sometimes known as the man of a thousand voices. His most notable impersonation is an uncanny Loyd Grossman, whom he once encountered on air whilst in character, discussing beef tomatoes, putanesca sauce and a raspberry coulis. O'Connell also does impressions of Sir Alan Sugar and Marlon Brando. He also impersonated the former star of 1980s drama The A-Team, Mr T, in a highly shabby, short-lived radio soap, 'At Home with Mr T', but the idea was dropped after just three episodes, and is generally regarded as one of the shabbier moments in an otherwise promising and upwardly mobile radio career. Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA (born September 16, 1950) is an English-American television presenter and chef who mainly works in the United Kingdom. ... For the 2008 movie, see The A-Team (film). ... Laurence Tureaud (born May 21, 1952), better known as Mr. ...

Other features of the show include, on Wednesdays, 'Would You Rathers' - in which listeners are invited to text in dilemmas beginning with the phrase 'would you rather...' and then presenting a difficult choice that O'Connell and Smith are obliged to pick from. Examples have included 'Would you rather be locked inside a cupboard with a wounded badger or a clown?' and 'Would you rather have foot-long nasal hair or eyeballs made of hard-boiled eggs?'.

Daily, in the 'Stairway to Seven' section of the show (between 6am and 7am), O'Connell or one of his team open a 'Can of Worms' in which a contentious point is put to listeners, who are invited to offer their views. Examples have included whether it is right for men to be seen in sandals, or the ideal sandwich filling.

The show also features a cast of peripheral characters, which over the years at both Virgin and Xfm have included Nana Jean (the genial old biddy from Herne Bay enlisted as a surrogate grandmother whilst Christian wasn't on speaking terms with his own, as described in the section above on Xfm), eccentric Japanese film reviewer Kimiko, Australian psychopath Damon Green from The Oval in south London, a listener who goes by the name 'Campino' who regularly texts in bizarre and strange comments, the Irish father of Head of Audio Comedy Brian Murphy, fortune telling mystic Victoria Bullis, (who informed a startled nation in April 2006 that Geoff Capes was Freddie Mercury's choice of replacement in the rock band Queen) and former A-Team star Mr T. Thirtysomething pin-ups Gaby Logan and Sarah Beeny are also frequently invited to be interviewed by Christian, purely because he admires their work as presenters, and for no other reason. Geoff Capes (born 23 August 1949 in Spalding, Lincolnshire) is a former British shot put champion, and former two-time winner of the Worlds Strongest Man title. ... Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Queen (inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001). ... Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, with bassist John Deacon joining the following year. ... The A-Team (1983 - 1987) was a television show about a group of fictional ex-US Army commandos on the run from the military. ... Laurence Tureaud (born May 21, 1952), better known as Mr. ... Gabby Logan Gabby Logan (born Gabrielle Nicole Yorath on April 24, 1974) is a British television presenter and former international gymnast. ... Sarah Beeny (born 1972) is a British television presenter who is best known for presenting the Channel 4 property shows Property Ladder, Streets Ahead and Britain’s Best Homes. ...

As in 2004, Christian and the team released a single for the 2006 World Cup. Following voting by the Virgin Radio listeners, Hurry Up England, a reworking of Sham 69's 1978 hit Hurry Up Harry was released on 12 June 2006 and entering the charts at #10. All proceeds from the single went to the Teenage Cancer Trust. However during the making of the single and the aftermath it was reported that O'Connell had a serious fall out with singer Jimmy Pursey and he has publicly expressed strong words towards him. Other entries of note included 'Win it for the Queen' by Cornelius Chapman and 'All Go Mad' by Howling at the Moon, the latter appearing on Side B of the single. “2006 World Cup” redirects here. ... Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. ... Hurry Up England - The Peoples Anthem is a charity single by British punk rock band Sham 69, featuring Graham Coxon on guitar. ... Sham 69 are an English punk rock band from Hersham, Surrey. ... Teenage Cancer Trust is a charity that focuses on the needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer, leukaemia, Hodgkin’s and related diseases by providing specialist teenage units in NHS hospitals. ... Jimmy Pursey (born February 9, 1955) is a singer and former member of English punk rock group Sham 69 between 1976-1980 and then from 1987-1993. ... Mr Cornelius Chapman Cornelius Album Biscuits at Balmoral Mr Cornelius Chapman is a cult poet, songsmith, writer and performer who found fame through the much celebrated The Gentlemans Club radio show on Londons Resonance FM and later via his numerous recordings for Xfm and Virgin Radio DJ Christian...

Virgin Radio also makes podcasts available of his programme, and the Breakfast Blog, a daily round-up of the show written by Chris Smith has recently exploded in popularity, usually with over 100 postings by Breakfast Show listeners each day. The contributor named Jo has been informally adopted by fellow blog contributors as their 'Queen of the Blog'. Podcasting is a way of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. ...

Unfortunately, in February 2007, Chris Smith departed on paternity leave and for reasons unknown to the public he has not returned. Brian and Roque now fill the roles Smith previously held, except that of newsreader. Parental leave is the right to take time off work, paid or unpaid, to care for your child or make arrangements for your childs welfare. ...

On 30 April 2007, he won a Gold award at the 25th Sony Radio Academy Awards for his competition "Who's calling Christian" where members of the public get celebrities to phone the studio and talk to O'Connell on air. The two times this has been held it has been won by actor Sir Roger Moore and former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The 25th Sony Radio Academy Awards were held on 30 April 2007 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane in London. ...

Notable Radio guests

Steven Seagal

O'Connell has long been a fan of Hollywood action man Steven Seagal, who he had mentioned several times on radio, and remarked that he would love to meet. However when Seagal rang Christian the relationship and understanding between the two was quite difficult and left O'Connell feeling disappointed. Seagal did not understand O'Connell's ironic personality and sense of humour and much of the recorded interview had to be removed from the radio broadcast because of such uneasiness. ... Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1951) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, martial artist, singer-songwriter, and activist. ... Look up humor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Liam Gallagher

On October 27, 2006 Liam Gallagher reportedly attempted to ring Virgin Radio on the Who's calling Christian where there is the chance to win £10,000 for charity. Liam was apparently in a drunken state and it took him 3 hours after an aggressive protest to convince Virgin bosses that it was indeed him and not an imposter. A great deal of swearing occurred off air between the managers and Gallagher who swore that he would come down to Virgin Radio and "Rip Christian O'Connell's fucking head off". After further phone calls from Polydor records and from Nicole Appleton begging for him to be let on, Gallagher was eventually allowed on and swore live on air on a morning breakfast show which may result in a fine. However he did not complete the conversation, leaving his friend Scully to speak for him, saying that he had to take his kids to see Harry Potter. However after an interview with his brother Noel Gallagher in February 2007, O' Connell expressed his liking to Noel and regarded that he was one of the funniest men he had every met in his life. is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. ... An Impostor (or Imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else. ... Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ... Nicole Appleton Nicole Marie Appleton (born December 7, 1974) is a pop singer and a member of Appleton and a former member of All Saints. ... This article is about the Harry Potter series of novels. ... Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Burnage, Manchester, England) is an English songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the Manchester rock band Oasis. ...

Tony Blair

Mr Tony Blair called Virgin Radio's Who's Calling Christian? hotline, after charity campaigner Graham Marsh contacted his Sedgefield constituency. If he won, Mr Marsh, from North Shields and who received a heart transplant in 1999, said he planned to donate his £10,000 to the two charities he supports - the Freemans Heart and Lung Transplant Association and the Tyne Youth and Community Centre, both in Newcastle upon Tyne. For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...

A nervous Mr Blair began by telling the programme: "Probably nothing in my career has prepared me for this." When O'Connell asked if he should be referred to as The Right Honourable Tony Blair, the Prime Minister replied: "Refer to me any way you like as long as it's reasonably polite! Tony will do fine." He explained: "Someone from my constituency phoned me and said 'Why don't we do this?' and I said yes because they are really, really good causes." The exchange ended with O'Connell asking Mr Blair to choose his favourite song from the 1980s. He chose Street With No Name by U2 - actually called Where the Streets Have No Name. U2 (IPA: /ju. ... The Joshua Tree track listing N/A Where the Streets Have No Name (1) I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For (2) The Best of 1980-1990 track listing Bad (6) Where the Streets Have No Name (7) I Will Follow (8) U218 Singles track listing Stuck...

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David Tennant

Doctor Who actor David Tennant who with a notable sense of humour is a regular on the show and a close friend of O'Connell and has been involved in some of the shows and O'Connell's professed "shabbiest" moments including the 2006 Chistmas play with Thandie Newton and the axed Mr T escapade. In late March 2007 he appeared on the Breakfast show again and took part in another escapade "1 Golden Square" (the address of Virgin Radio). Later that week when he appeared on a rival show on BBC Radio 1 on the Saturday, Virgin Radio producer Roque Segade-Vieito contacted the station for a practical joke texting a question to Tennant as "I hear you have been signed up for a new programme called 1 Golden Square". Ironically the question was taken seriously and addressed to Tennant live on Radio 1 leaving Virgin Radio including O'Connell rather pleased with the gag. For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation). ... David Tennant is the stage name of David John McDonald (born 18 April 1971), a Scottish actor from Bathgate, West Lothian, best known for portraying the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who. ... Thandiwe Adjewa Thandie Newton (born 6 November 1972, is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress[1]. // Newton was born in Zambia, to a white English lab technician and artist, Nick Newton, and a Zimbabwean health-care worker, Nyasha. ... This page redirects from Radio 1. See Radio 1 (disambiguation). ...

BBC Radio Five Live

On 07 August 2004, O'Connell became the second person to host the BBC Radio Five Live show Fighting Talk, following the departure of Johnny Vaughan. It was his first outing on national radio (his Xfm show was broadcast only in London) and he completed 16 months presenting the show before leaving to focus on his new breakfast show at Virgin Radio. The show won a Gold award at the 24th Sony Radio Academy Awards, with O'Connell accredited as the presenter. The 24th Sony Radio Academy Awards were held on 8 May 2006 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane in London. ...

Awards

• 2004 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for DJ of the Year.^[1]
• 2004 Sony Radio Academy Silver Award for Breakfast Show of the Year.^[2]
• 2005 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for Entertainment.^[3]
• 2005 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for Breakfast Show of the Year.^[4]
• 2006 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for Sports Programme (Fighting Talk).^[5]
• 2007 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for a Competition (Who’s Calling Christian?).^[6]

Television career

Christian 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. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... Dickie Davies in the World of Sport studio in 1973/4 Dickie Davies (born 30 April 1933) is a British television presenter, best known for presenting World of Sport from 1968 until 1985. ... Christopher David Moyles (born February 22, 1974 in Leeds) is an English disc jockey. ... Five (often referred as five, as per the logo), formerly, and more commonly known as Channel 5, is the British fifth and final national analogue terrestrial TV channel. ... Eggheads is a BBC quiz game show presented by Dermot Murnaghan. ... This article is about the British television station. ... Rock School (also known as Gene Simmons Rock School) is a British reality TV series starring Gene Simmons (from the band KISS), in which he has a short time to turn a class of school children into a fully fledged rock band, at the end of which they must perform...

In May 2006, it was announced that O'Connell will shortly front '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. World Cuppa was a one-hour ITV4 show, which launched on June 9, 2006, and ran for the duration of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. ... ITV4 is a UK television station which launched on November 1, 2005. ...

He was tipped to replace Des Lynam as the host of channel 4's Countdown but he admitted he was too fond of his radio career to accept the role ^{[citation needed]}. Desmond Michael Lynam (born 17 September 1942) is an Irish sports presenter and game show host on British television and radio, born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. ... A countdown is the backward counting to indicate the seconds, days, etc. ...

Personal & Family

Christian originally came from Winchester and has an Irish father. He attended Nottingham Trent University He supports Championship football side Southampton FC, but claims he doesn't follow them so much since they were relegated from the top flight. Winchester is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre. ... Arkwright Building Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a university in Nottingham, England. ... The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short, the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League. ... Southampton F.C. (originally St. ...

Facts & Oddities

Before becoming a radio presenter, Christian O'Connell had a Saturday job at M & S, and was briefly a stand-up comedian, performing at various comedy clubs around the UK. Although he no longer does stand-up, there's still a strong comedy element to his music radio shows, although his recent feature, 'At Home with Mr T' was an exception to this rule. Marks & Spencer plc (known also as M&S, Your M&S and sometimes colloquially as Marks and Sparks, Marks or Markss) is a British retailer, with several branches outside of the UK. It is one of the most widely recognised chain stores in the UK and is the largest...

O'Connell is a major fan of Wikipedia stating his admiration for it live on air several times, using it for example to quickly do research on a guest for his competition "who's calling Christian" and for his training for The Weakest Link.^{[citation needed]} Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ... The Weakest Link (known as Weakest Link in many countries) is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000. ...

He appeared in November 2006 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".

One-time Breakfast Show guest Richard Littlejohn has described O'Connell as "a poor man's Johnny Vaughan, but twice as 'Orrible."^{[citation needed]} Richard William Littlejohn (born 18 January 1954 in Ilford, Essex) is an award-winning right wing British journalist, broadcaster, and author of three best-selling books. ... Johnny Vaughan (born July 16, 1967) is an English writer and broadcaster. ...

References

External links

• Sky One - Sunday Service
• VirginRadio.co.uk - The Breakfast Show
• Christian's profile at VirginRadio.co.uk
• VirginRadio.co.uk - The Breakfast Show Blog
• Christian O'Connell interviewed From London's Evening Standard (May 2003)
• Press Gazette interview (Jan 2006)
• Interview with 'The Independent' (May 2006)