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Jason Manford is a British comedian, actor, presenter, and radio host. He is best known for his stand-up comedy, which he has performed on television and radio, as well as in live venues. He has also appeared in several films and television shows, including the BBC sitcoms The Catherine Tate Show and Little Britain.
Manford was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, and attended St. Ambrose College in Hale Barns. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in 2000, and has since performed in venues across the UK and Ireland. He has also appeared on television shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You, and Live at the Apollo.
In addition to his stand-up comedy, Manford has also presented several radio shows, including The Jason Manford Show on BBC Radio 2, and The Sunday Night Show on Absolute Radio. He has also written and starred in several stage shows, including A Funny Night Out and A Night Out with Jason Manford.
As of 2021, Jason Manford's net worth is estimated to be roughly $3 million.
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Jason John Manford |
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Comedian · presenter · actor · singer |
Age |
43 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
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26 May, 1981 |
Birthday |
26 May |
Birthplace |
Salford, England |
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United Kingdom |
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Jason Manford Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Jason Manford's Wife?
His wife is Catherine Manford (m. 2007-2013)
Lucy Dyke (m. 2017)
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Catherine Manford (m. 2007-2013)
Lucy Dyke (m. 2017) |
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6 |
Jason Manford Net Worth
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Jason Manford's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In 2020, Manford came in second place as the Hedgehog on The Masked Singer.
In 2019 he starred in Curtains, a musical whodunnit by Fred Ebb and John Kander, which toured the UK. It moved to the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End mid-December until mid January 2020, after which it began a further UK tour.
In 2018, he fronted What Would Your Kid Do?, a new series for ITV.
In April 2017, Manford guest presented five episodes of The Nightly Show. He also presented the 2017 Laurence Olivier Awards for ITV.
In 2017, he presented a new Sunday-night entertainment series for ITV called Bigheads.
Since 2017, he has been the voice of Daisy's dad in a CHF Entertainment cartoon called Daisy & Ollie. He also writes some of the episodes for it.
At the 2017 and 2019 general elections, he has supported the Labour Party.
In 2016, Manford joined Absolute Radio as their new Sunday morning show presenter.
Manford played the role of Marty in the 2015 BBC Drama Ordinary Lies. In 2015, he hosted The Money Pit for Dave and It's a Funny Old Week for ITV.
Manford has a minor voice role in the Xbox 360 video game Fable III, playing "Jammy" who teaches the player how to use mortars. Pvt. Jammy dies early in the game. He had a role in the BBC Three series Ideal and starred in an episode of BBC One's Moving On. In 2015, Manford played the role of Marty in the BBC One drama series Ordinary Lies, starring alongside Michelle Keegan, Max Beesley and Sally Lindsay. He also played the medium Alexander Le Cheyne in Episode 3 of Series 3 of Ripper Street. In 2015, Manford starred in his second musical as Leo Bloom in the 2015 UK tour of Mel Brooks' The Producers opposite Louie Spence, Phill Jupitus and Ross Noble.
Since 21 June 2014, Manford has hosted a BBC One show called A Question of Sport: Super Saturday, a spin-off from BBC panel show A Question of Sport. On 21 September 2014, Manford guest hosted an episode of Sunday Night at the Palladium. He returned to present another show on 24 May 2015.
Since April 2014, Manford has been supporting the cancer charity Stephen's Story. Stephen Sutton was a nineteen-year-old terminally ill cancer patient who set up the initiative to help others battling the disease. All turnover from May 2014 at Manford's comedy clubs was given to Sutton's charity.
In late 2013, Manford was the voiceover artist for the Jet2.com and Churchill Insurance adverts and is one of the voices in the BBC comedy sketch show Walk on the Wild Side. He appeared in series four of Channel 4's Shameless as a security guard who is seduced by Karen Maguire. In July 2012, Manford took over the role of Pirelli for a month (followed by a few dates in August) in the London revival of musical Sweeney Todd at the Adelphi Theatre opposite Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton.
He also made up one half of the Home Team with Peter Andre on the ITV game show Odd One In. In July 2011, Manford presented Show Me The Funny, a reality show on ITV involving ten comedians in which one is voted off each week. In 2013, Manford hosted three pilots: Good News, Bad News and Oh! What a Week for ITV, and You and Whose Army? for Sky1. None of them have yet been commissioned for a full series. He wrote and presented A Funny Old Year which was broadcast on ITV on New Year's Eve in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The show saw Manford take a look back over the past year's humorous events.
Manford comes from a family of singers and musicians and sang regularly with them. In the TV competition Born to Shine in 2011 he was taught daily to sing in an operatic style, he went on to win the show and has released an album of show tunes, called A Different Stage. Manford was the runner-up on the first series of The Masked Singer UK as Hedgehog, with Nicola Roberts beating him as Queen Bee.
In 2011, Manford became one of the shareholders of the Chester-based comedy club The Laugh Inn. He frequented the club to see shows and support the circuit comedians as well as performing impromptu or unannounced shows. The club closed in 2013.
In March 2010, Manford was announced as host of a new comedy show called Comedy Rocks, featuring stand up comedians and musical performances. A pilot was shown on ITV on 26 March 2010 and a full series began on the channel on 14 January 2011. On 26 May 2010, Manford was announced as the new presenter of BBC One's The One Show from July 2010. He resigned from the programme in November 2010 following allegations surrounding his private life.
After a successful first UK tour and high sales of the following DVD, filmed live at the Manchester Apollo, he started his "Turning into My Dad" tour on 14 July 2010.
In March 2010, Manford took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March. He toured the UK with "First World Problems", between June and December 2013 and produced a DVD of the same name. His tour "Muddle Class" was touring across the UK, until the end of 2018. His upcoming tour “Like me” will start early September 2020 and finish October 2021. “ https://www.jasonmanford.com/
Manford cites Billy Connolly as his comedy hero, after seeing him when Manford was 11, and comics such as Tommy Cooper and Peter Kay heavily influenced his comic style. In 2009, in an interview on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Manford talked about his passion for musicals, expressing an interest in taking a singing and acting role on stage, and giving a short, impromptu performance of "Suddenly Seymour".
Manford married his first wife, Catherine, in October 2007. On 20 August 2009, she gave birth to healthy twin daughters. His wife gave birth to their third daughter in December 2010, and a son in 2012. The family lived in Bramhall, Cheshire. In May 2013, it was stated that they had split. In 2017 he married his second wife Lucy Dyke.
From June to November 2007, Manford was Paramount Comedy's continuity announcer and writer. In June 2007, he took over from Dave Spikey as a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats. He presented his own show, Tonightly, which aired every weekday from 1 to 22 August 2008 and appeared as a celebrity supporter for inventor Kin Kam in a special charity edition of BBC Two's Dragons' Den for Sport Relief.
In November 2008, Manford became patron of Savebabies, a charity campaigning for newborn screening.
Previously he was a team captain on the Channel 4 panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2007 until 2010, and has presented numerous television shows for the BBC and ITV including Comedy Rocks (2010–2011), The One Show (2010), Show Me the Funny (2011), A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (2014) and Bigheads (2017).
From June to November 2007, Manford was on Ideal, where he had a small part as Jack, who had been dumped and cheated on by his girlfriend with 'little Darren', 'big Darren' and 'flu-strength Darren'. He later made another appearance in episode five of that series. He hosted a breakfast show on Xfm Manchester until May 2008.
Jason John Manford (born 26 May 1981) is an English comedian, singer, television presenter, radio presenter and actor. He is currently playing the lead in the musical Curtains.