Pat Sharp

For other people of the same name, see Patrick Sharp (disambiguation).
Pat Sharp
Born (1961-10-25) 25 October 1961
Marylebone, London, England
Country United Kingdom
Previous show(s) BBC Radio 1, Capital FM, Heart 106.2

Patrick "Pat" Sharp born 25 October 1961 in Marylebone, London)[1] is an English radio and television presenter and DJ. In the UK, he is known mainly for his work on the children's television programme Fun House, his former mullet and his radio shows as well as his support of Arsenal. In Europe, he was known in the 1980s as one of the Sky Channel's VJs and for presenting Coca-Cola Eurochart Top 50 and Nescafé UK Top 50.

Radio work

Sharp worked as a presenter at BBC Radio 1, mixing holiday cover for other TV presenters with a regular early Sunday morning slot and a number of television appearances hosting BBC1's Top of the Pops.[2] He deputised for David Jensen on The Network Chart Show.[3] In the mid-1980s he became a DJ for Radio Mercury[4] and has also worked for the British Forces Broadcasting Service. For 10 years, starting in 1987, Sharp was a DJ on Capital FM in London.[5] followed by another 11 years at Heart, both in London and Cambridge.

In the late-1980s, Sharp teamed up with Mick Brown as the duo Pat and Mick, to release the charity singles "Let's All Chant" and "I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet". Both songs made the Top 20 of the UK singles chart. The duo released five hit singles making the Top 75, raising more than a million pounds for charity.[6]

In 1987, he was voted as having the worst haircut (winning this accolade more than once) at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party awards, where he was also in the top three DJs. He was awarded the Sony Award in 1992 for best DJ.[7]

Television work

Sharp intermittently presented episodes of the music programme Top of the Pops, including being one of the many presenters on the last programme.[8] In 1987–88, he presented ITV show The Roxy. However, Sharp is best known on television for several children's television programmes aired on CITV. Most notable of these is Fun House, a popular children's television programme running from 1989–99,[9] which he presented along with Melanie and Martina Grant. Sharp presented alongside producer Matt Penn. Sharp was also one of the presenters of Saturday morning show What's Up Doc? 1992–94[10] and presented phone-in quiz show Hang On! in 1996.[11]

Sharp appeared as a guest in many other television shows, including several episodes of You Bet!, Surprise Surprise, Celebrity Squares and The Weakest Link. In the 2000s, Sharp has appeared in Pat Sharp's House of Fun 100 on The Hits. He also appeared in episodes three and seven of the 24th series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.[12][13]

Recent work

Between 1997 and 2004, Sharp presented Heart 106.2's weekday morning Time Tunnel show. Following this, Sharp was a presenter on the Century FM group of stations. In 2004, he participated in Channel 4 sports reality show The Games finishing last out of five contestants,[14] but was proclaimed the People's Hero. Further reality TV involvement came on 3 June 2006 when he appeared for a sketch on ITV2's X Factor spin-off show X-Tra Factor: Battle Of The Stars. He appeared briefly on 23 June 2007 on a Big Brother's Big Mouth phone-in. However he did appear on the show in person as a guest on 12 July 2007, then appeared four years later on Big Brother's Bit on the Side on 27 October 2011.

He also fronts All The Hits, a weekly three-hour syndicated radio show produced by Blue Revolution, which is broadcast on numerous stations around the world.

In May 2010, Sharp appeared on Come Dine with Me with Jenny Powell, Michael Barrymore and Anthea Redfern. He also appeared on BBC Two's Never Mind the Buzzcocks twice in the same series in 2010, along with BBC One's The One Show.

In November 2010, Sharp appeared on Vintage TV to present his favourite selection of 20th century music videos in a programme titled My Vintage. Shortly afterwards he also hosted Vintage TV's Christmas Show. In 2012, Vintage TV launched a new TV series, Pat Sharp's Top Ten @ Ten, a new, twice-weekly series in which Sharp counts down through his Top 10 of anything and everything.

In December 2010, Sharp joined Smooth Radio to host Weekend Breakfast.[15] He was officially appointed as the station's Weekend Breakfast presenter in January 2011.[16] In January 2013 Sharp became the station's weekday afternoon presenter after a major overhaul of the Smooth schedule.[17]

In November 2011, Sharp was a contestant on the eleventh series of the ITV reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

In October 2012, Sharp was seen starring in the controversial music video for Ennui, a single by Manchester act Shinies, in which he was kidnapped, beaten with a baseball bat and burned alive.[18]

Following a major overhaul of the station's schedule in January 2013 Sharp became Smooth's English weekday lunchtime presenter, succeeding Carlos who moves to weeknights. Smooth Radio was acquired by Global Radio in 2013. Following a studio and business move to Global's headquarters in Leicester Square, Pat Sharp and David Jensen were then dropped from the schedules on 19 December 2013.[19] Sharp started broadcasting on the Breeze network New Year's Eve 2013.[20] He appears regularly on Sam FM south coast. Sharp also presents Time Warp playlists and Pat Sharp In The House on Vintage TV.

Sharp guest presented Guess The Year from 9-10am on Free Radio. He returned to cover Foxy & Guiliano's breakfast show on Free Radio Birmingham from 6-9am between 30 March to 2 April 2015. His stint concluded with the networked evening show from 6-midnight on Good Friday 3 April 2015.

References

  1. ↑ "Pat Sharp (Agent's biography)". MPC Entertainment. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2007.
  2. ↑ "People: Pat Sharp". Radio Rewind. Archived from the original on 26 June 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
  3. ↑ "Reference to Pat Sharp on The Network Chart Show". jinglemad.com. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
  4. ↑ "Reference to Pat Sharp on Radio Mercury". Mercury FM. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  5. ↑ "Reference to Pat Sharp on Capital Radio for ten years!". Heart Cambridge. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  6. ↑ "Reference to Pat & Mick raising over a million pounds for charity". Butlins. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  7. ↑ "Pat Sharp". Century FM. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
  8. ↑ "Top of the Pops bids fond goodbye". BBC News. 31 July 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
  9. ↑ ""Fun House" (1990)". IMDb. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
  10. ↑ "What's Up Doc details". paulmorris.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  11. ↑ "Hang On!". UK Gameshows. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
  12. ↑ "Programmes "Never Mind The Buzzcocks"". BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
  13. ↑ Moseley, A. "Review: Never Mind The Buzzcocks". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
  14. ↑ "60 seconds with Pat Sharp". Q103. Retrieved 13 June 2007.
  15. ↑ "Pat Sharp keeps it Smooth". Radio Today. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  16. ↑ "Pat Sharp to Join Smooth Radio Line-up". GMG Radio (Guardian Media Group). 12 January 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  17. ↑ "Pat Sharp gets daily show on Smooth Radio". Radio Today. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  18. ↑ Mulder, Sylvia (2 October 2012). "Pat Sharp 'beaten up and burned alive' in new Shinies music video 'Ennui'". Daily Mail (Daily Mail and General Trust). Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  19. ↑ "Pat Sharp leaves Smooth". Radio Today. 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  20. ↑ "Pat Sharp Bio=Breeze". 31 December 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2013.

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Preceded by
Graham Dene		 Smooth Radio
weekend breakfast show presenter
December 2010 – January 2013 		Succeeded by
Daryl Denham
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