Jonathan Wilkes

Jonathan Wilkes (born 1 August 1978) is an English television presenter and singer.

Early life and career Jonathan Wilkes was born in Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent, to Eileen Wilkes and Graham Wilkes, and spent most of his childhood in Packmoor, an outlying village of Chell. He resided near the home of Robbie Williams, with whom he is best friends. He has one older sister called Kay. He signed for Port Vale FC, aged seven, and played for Everton FC as a teenager. He said that he was dropped from the team due to his "unwillingness to eat, sleep and breathe football".

His first stage role was in a Stoke Amateur Operatic Society production of Hans Christian Andersen.

In 1996, he won the Cameron Mackintosh Young Entertainer of the Year Award. From this, he went on to work in Blackpool under the name 'Jonathan and the Space Girls', until being spotted by Kevin Bishop of the BBC, who employed him as a presenter for the precursor channel to BBC3. He has since gone on to work in West End Musicals, and has presented You've Been Framed!.

After signing a record deal with Virgin, Wilkes had a brief spell as a pop-music singer, his single "Just Another Day" reached No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart. The single hit the Top 5 in 18 countries worldwide.

While working for the BBC, he lived in London.