Nick Bright is a British radio and television presenter. He currently hosts Saturday mid mornings on

BBC Radio 1Xtra BBC Radio 1Xtra is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts black music and urban music, including hip hop and R&B and is a sister station to Radio 1. Launching at 18:00 on 16 August 2002, it had been cod ...

, The Squad on

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, Sundays at midday, numerous different projects for

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and the

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Matchday Show.

Early life

Born at Mayday Hospital in

Croydon Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensi ...

, his father is half Ghanaian and his mother is English. He grew up in South Norwood,

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. He is a supporter of Arsenal F.C. He was educated at St Joseph’s College in south London before his family relocated to

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where he attended St Luke's School. He went on to study music technology at

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and then completed a degree in Radio Production at the

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Career

In April 2010, Bright began presenting on

launching a brand new early breakfast show (4am7am Monday to Saturday). Since then he moved to the Weekend Breakfast show (710am) and then to Saturdays and Sundays 10am1pm. In August 2018 he joined

presenting a show called The Squad on Sundays at midday. This meant he could no longer present his Sunday show on 1Xtra Alongside his radio commitments, Bright also does some TV presenting hosting the FA People’s Cup for

since 2015 and the 2017

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. In summer 2018 he fronted a new

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chat show for BBC Sport called Barbershop Ballers in which he and his panel of guests discussed the days matches. For the 2018/19

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season he was confirmed as one of the presenters of the

Matchday Show called Arsenal Nation Live. He had a brief stint as

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artist

Lethal Bizzle Maxwell Owusu Ansah (born 14 September 1984), known by his stage name Lethal Bizzle, is a British rapper from Walthamstow, London, of Ghanaian origin. He emerged in 2002 as a grime MC as part of More Fire Crew, with their grime single "Oi!" ch ...

’s tour DJ.

References

External links

''Nick Bright''
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