Jonathan Wilkes (born 1 August 1978) is an English entertainer, who is
famous due to being a close friend of Robbie Williams.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, with his friend Robbie Williams. He has one
older sister called Kay. He signed for Port Vale FC, aged seven, and
played for Everton FC as a teenager. He was dropped from the team due
to his unwillingness to 'eat, sleep and breathe football'.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!. He had a brief spell as a pop-music singer, his single
"Just Another Day" went to No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart.
famous due to being a close friend of Robbie Williams.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, with his friend Robbie Williams. He has one
older sister called Kay. He signed for Port Vale FC, aged seven, and
played for Everton FC as a teenager. He was dropped from the team due
to his unwillingness to 'eat, sleep and breathe football'.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!. He had a brief spell as a pop-music singer, his single
"Just Another Day" went to No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart.
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