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Carr has always maintained that some of the nastiest people in television are our national treasures; that it’s a problem that the British public so revere their celebrities they want them to be nice, forgetting that television is pure fantasy. “Why is it that we need them to be nice?” he asks rhetorically. “And then people think if they’re not nice, they’ve somehow been lied to.” Alan Carr gets married to long-term boyfriend in LA". BBC News. 20 January 2018 . Retrieved 20 January 2018. Alan Graham Carr was born on 14 June 1976 in Weymouth, Dorset, elder son of Christine and Graham Carr, and spent the majority of his childhood in Northampton. [1] [2] His father, whose family comes from the North East of England, [3] is a former Northampton Town manager and Newcastle United chief scout. [4] [5] Carr has a younger brother, Gary. [6] Alan Carr's Christmas Box". BBC Radio 2. Archived from the original on 28 December 2007 . Retrieved 1 February 2008. His former Friday Night Project co-host, Justin Lee Collins, did, of course. When that dark side became public in a 2012 court case, Carr says he was torn. “I don’t know what people do in their private life and I don’t want to throw him under the bus.”

Carr hosted the radio show Going Out with Alan Carr on BBC Radio 2 (2009–2012), as well as releasing his autobiography book Look Who It Is! (2008), and going on three arena stand-up comedy tours: Tooth Fairy Live (2007), Spexy Beast Live (2011) and Yap, Yap, Yap! (2015). Carr has won three British Comedy Awards (2007, 2008, 2013), two National Television Awards (2012, 2015) and a BAFTA TV Award (2013). In January 2018, Carr married his partner of ten years, Paul Drayton, in Los Angeles. [27] The wedding was officiated by his best friend Adele. [28] The couple announced their separation in January 2022 following Drayton's conviction for drink-driving. [29] Carr lives in West Sussex, three miles from Horsham. [30] Controversy [ edit ] He twists round to throw this to the audience. “Do you think about death?” There is a chorus of yesses. He hasn’t worked out whether he’d do a burial or a cremation yet. Then he perks up. “What about the Viking one, where they set you on fire and push you out into the lake? Yeah, that might be quite nice.” What music would he have? “Hopefully, Adele would sing me off. Someone Like You as I disappear down the River Nene in Northampton.”

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Alan Carr: Chatty Man (Talk-Show), Open Mike Productions, 14 June 2009 , retrieved 6 September 2022 The book follows Alan’s life as an awkward child to just when his comedy career is really taking off. Of which he is very honest about – which I love. Carr's early TV career included guest appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats in 2005 and The Law of the Playground in 2006. [12] [13] He and Justin Lee Collins co-hosted The Friday Night Project from series two in 2006 until it was cancelled after the end of series eight in February 2009. [14] Carr went on to host two series of Channel 4's game show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong from 2007 to 2009, and the chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which ran for 16 series from 2009-2016, with Christmas Specials in 2016 and 2017. [15] Radio [ edit ] Carr has been featured in three Edinburgh shows and in 2007 he toured throughout the UK, which was followed by a DVD entitled Tooth Fairy Live. He has performed at the Apollo Theatre in London, which was televised for the BBC One series Live at the Apollo, and has been featured in the Royal Variety Performance. a b "Alan Carr - Who Do You Think You Are? A mysterious change of name..." The Genealogist. Who Do You Think You Are?. 26 September 2011 . Retrieved 2 October 2018.

Interview: Alan Carr". This is Nottingham. 8 October 2008 . Retrieved 18 January 2009. [ permanent dead link] In March 2010, Carr took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held at the O2 Arena in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London.

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What about Graham? “My dad found it incredibly sad. Which is not what you want to hear when you’ve made a sitcom.” Whereas I used to maybe slag off someone from X Factor, I think we’ve realised now who the enemy is

He is 46 years old as of 14 June 2022. He was born in 1976 in Weymouth, United Kingdom. His real name is Alan Graham Carr. Alan Carr Family – Education Carr went to Weston Favell Upper School in Northampton and graduated from Middlesex University with a 2:1 BA (Hons) degree in Drama and Theatre Studies. [7] [8] He has written two autobiographies, Look Who It Is! and Alanatomy, and even they are in the distinctive voice he describes as like “a seagull fighting for a chip” but I receive as trilling reverberations of Kenneth Williams in his scratchy Carry On heyday. As a comedian, Carr’s DNA is 60% Williams, with dollops of a softer camp reminiscent of Frankie Howerd, Julian Clary, Larry Grayson and Dale Winton. Noah, Sherna (6 March 2012). "Alan Carr gives up radio show to reclaim his weekends". Independent.ie . Retrieved 17 April 2022. The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards - past winners". www.britishcomedyawards.com . Retrieved 4 May 2022.Carr made his radio presenting debut on Christmas Day 2007 for BBC Radio 2 as part of their Festive Highlights with the show Alan Carr's Christmas Box. [16] He filled in on BBC Radio 6 Music on 16 February and 14 June 2008 for Adam and Joe and co-presented The Russell Brand Show on 4 October 2008. He also presented Alan Carr's Comedy Outings for BBC Radio 2 in 2008. Carr with actor Oliver Savell, who plays the comedian as a boy in the sitcom Changing Ends. Photograph: Matt Frost/ITV anointed him for that calling. Jesse is now married to Amy Baker Carr and he is the Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Morganton, NC. Nikki married Chad Carswell in October The boy who plays young Alan steals the show however, he seems to be a genuine talent who might well go on to greater things. The rest of the cast, including Alan as his older self, are really just supporting actors. He hams it up a bit, just like the subject, but some scenes are almost tearful as well. Carr is gay, but does not consider his sexuality to be a focal part of his act; in 2008, he said: "I just think gay people need to get over themselves. Just because you're gay and on the telly doesn't mean you're a role model. I'm just a comedian. That's all I am. What am I meant to do? Do I go down the Julian Clary route and talk about fisting and poppers? I don't talk about being gay and I think what better equality for gays than that?" [6] According to Carr, he has been comfortable with his sexuality from a very young age. When Eddie Izzard was a guest on Chatty Man and asked Carr when he came out of the closet, he replied that he was "never really in" and other children were already making fun of his camp behaviour when he was eight or nine years old. [26]

Amanda and Alan's Italian Job is set to return to BBC One and iPlayer for a second series". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. 10 September 2023. After completing his degree in his early 20s, Carr moved to Manchester, aspiring to be a comedian. He lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy after which he moved to Stretford, which he cites as an inspiration for his comedic work. [9] Carr worked in a call centre for five years and performed on the comedy circuit in his spare time, before moving into comedy as a full-time career. [10] [11] Career [ edit ] Television and film [ edit ]It would take a hard heart not to fall for Changing Ends. It is a steamroller of a comedy, open, welcoming and beaming with easy charm. Written by Alan Carr and Two Doors Down’s Simon Carlyle, it tells the story of Carr’s early life in Northampton, joining him on the precipice of “big school” in 1986. Carr is not your everyday 11-year-old, with his penchant for scarves, earmuffs and Murder, She Wrote; that he ends up as a confidant of the dinner ladies, and not the football lads, is no great surprise to anyone. Still, it isn’t easy being different in the east Midlands in the 80s and young Alan has issues to deal with on all sides. Graham Carr: Ex-Newcastle chief scout takes director role at Northampton Town' ". bbc.co.uk/sport. 22 August 2017. The ridiculous thing is, you say to people, ‘Oh, I’m writing a sitcom based on my life, where my dad’s like a northern, tough-talking football manager and his son’s camp as a row of tents’ and they say, ‘Oh, that writes itself.’” He narrows his eyes. “It does not write itself. You have to put in a lot of effort.”