Nick ?

Oldham's own Nick Grimshaw, 27, will be known to millions from September, as he takes over the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. It could all have been so different. He wanted to study law at Leeds University, but failed to come up with the right A-Level grades. Through clearing, he got offered Communications and Business Studies at Liverpool University, and was soon working at Icon, the student radio station, where he became Head of Music. He interviewed The Coral, The Zutons and even Girls Aloud. It's reported that he left with a 1st, though I can't find more than one source on that.

Thence a period working as a record plugger for Red Alert Promotions of Manchester; an encounter with Channel 4 at Glastonbury; he gets an agent, and arrives as a "newcomer" on Andy Parfitt's multimedia yoof experiment "Switch", where he Sumo-wrestles with Pixie Geldof, Lily Allen and Alexa Chung. He claims not to have had a girlfriend since leaving university.

His current Monday to Thursday evening show doesn't really leaves a Moyles-size hole in the network. I'm guessing the saviour of Radio 1 (from Leeds)is looking for a weekend mid-morning gig from September - a route followed by more than one weekday breakfast host over the years. It might even put him up against Wogan again. 


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