Kevin Day (born 3 May 1961 in

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) is a British

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and

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presenter. He came to prominence in the British alternative comedy stand up scene of the late eighties and early nineties, playing clubs like

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. This led to him hosting the comedy discussion programme Loose Talk on

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from 1992 to 1994, having initially co-hosted with

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when the programme was launched in 1991. He has co-hosted the Channel 5 sports programme ''Live And Dangerous'' with Mark Webster. He has written for Dave Allen,

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and

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. In 2005 Day became, and is still, a programme associate for '' Have I Got News for You'' and contributes to the writing on the programme delivered by the guest hosts each week. He had previously been a guest on the show in 1991. In 2005 he played Gary Mills in the TV comedy ''

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''. Since 2004 he has been a regular on

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. He was an occasional guest presenter on the BBC7 discussion show ''

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''. He was also a regular on

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's Sunday morning radio programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. Aside from this, as a

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fan, he regularly appears on the fan-made

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Kevin claims he will always turn left when exiting the bunny hole when walking to Selhurst Park , the home ground of Crystal Palace Football Club. Since 2019 Day presents a podcast called The Price of Football with academic and football finances expert Kieran Maguire. In the 1970s he was briefly a member of the National Front, a racist political party. He says it took the death of his black friend Richard Campbell in police custody in 1980 to "make the scales quickly fall from my eyes." He then became a left-wing activist, using his previous experience in his 1993

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show ''I Was A Teenage Racist''. Day is a long term supporter of Crystal Palace football team and even held his wedding reception at the banqueting suite of the club's Selhurst Park stadium. He aided the campaign of the supporters' trust when the club was in administration and close to extinction in the late 1990s.

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