Matthew Edmondson (born 27 December 1985) is a British

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and

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-nominated

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, best known for his work with

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and

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. Edmondson currently presents the weekday afternoon show on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1pm to 3:30pm with

Mollie King Mollie Elizabeth King (born 4 June 1987) is an English pop singer, songwriter, radio presenter and a member of girl group The Saturdays. As part of The Saturdays, King has had 13 Top 10 and eight Top 5 singles, including the UK number-one hit ...

on Radio 1. In 2016, he co-presented '' The Xtra Factor'' alongside

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Career

Television

Edmondson was a

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continuity presenter from 2004 to 2006, prior to which, in 2002, he was a roving reporter for

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's '' Richard & Judy''.IndependentTalent.com
Edmondson co-presented the

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coverage of the

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for

. He also provided links and commentary for the

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coverage of the

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. He presented reports from '' T in the Park

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'' for BBC One Scotland, BBC Two Scotland and

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. Edmondson also provided voiceovers for

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and presented

's ''

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'' from 2010 until 2011. In May 2010, Edmondson presented highlights from ''The Great Escape Festival'' and the ''Topman CTRL Student Tour'' on

. On 27 June 2016, it was announced that Edmondson would co-host '' The Xtra Factor Live'' alongside Rylan Clark-Neal on

. The series began on 27 August 2016 and was broadcast live from The Hospital Club. The show was axed in January 2017. Edmondson narrated the third series of '' Impractical Jokers UK'' on Channel 5 and

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in 2016. In 2017, Edmondson took part in the

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's '' Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief''. In November 2016, Edmondson provided the voiceover for the adverts for ''Now That's What I Call Music! 95'', when regular voiceover Mark Goodier suffered a stroke. He presents the

dating series ''Dress to Impress''. From 2017, Edmondson replaced

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as the presenter of '' Release the Hounds'' on

Radio

On 8 January 2010, Edmondson joined

, and appeared every Friday on Fearne Cotton's show to report on entertainment news and showbiz gossip. His first appearance on Cotton's programme was on 15 January 2010. Edmondson began presenting the Sunday 10am to 1pm slot on

on 14 March 2010, filling in for regular presenter Sara Cox while she was on maternity leave. Edmondson started a weekly show on

on 6 April 2011 replacing

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from 9pm to 10pm on Wednesdays. However, on 19 December 2012, he presented his last Wednesday night show before moving to weekends in January 2013, taking over

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's Saturday 10am1pm slot and Sara Cox's Sunday 10am1pm slot. On 10 April 2018, it was announced that Edmondson and

would co-present a new afternoon show for

beginning in June on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. In 2024, it was announced that they would be moving to weekdays (except Fridays) on Radio 1 in July. In 2018, Edmondson hosted a BBC radio podcast programme in which he and his episode co-hosts, beginning with Amelia Dimoldenberg and

Nina Nesbitt Nina Lindberg Nesbitt (born 11 July 1994) is a Scottish singer and songwriter. She is best known for her UK singles chart, UK and Scottish Singles and Albums Charts, Scottish top 40 hit singles "Stay Out" and "Selfies (song), Selfies". She also ...

, deliberately vandalised

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to see how long the vandalism would last.

Other work

Edmondson was a columnist for ''

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'' magazine. He appeared in the music video for the song " Make Peace Not War" by British grime artist

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. Edmondson has designed several published board games through Format Games, which he founded in 2021 with his brother-in-law.

Personal life

Edmondson is originally from

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and attended St Edmund's Catholic School and Havant College. He now lives in

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, south-east London. His elder sister Kate Arnell is also a television presenter. In May 2012, Edmondson became engaged to his long-term girlfriend Bryony Emmett, and the pair married in 2013. In September 2016, Edmondson missed an episode of ''The Xtra Factor Live''. During the show, it was announced that Bryony had gone into labour, and at the end of the show it was announced that she had given birth to a girl. In January 2022, Bryony gave a birth to a second girl. Edmondson has been diagnosed with

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, a form of

bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder (BD), previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of Depression (mood), depression and periods of abnormally elevated Mood (psychology), mood that each last from days to weeks, and in ...

(considered to be a milder type). In 2020, Edmondson revealed in a Twitter thread that his father was an

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with bipolar disorder who killed himself when Edmondson was 22. * * Edmondson wrote a song about it, "Your Car", with the vocals of Aymee Weir.

References

External links

''Matt and Mollie''
(BBC Radio 1)
''Radio 1 Pop Anthems''
(BBC Radio 1)
Independent Talent Presenters
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