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

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, The Official Top 40 on

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, 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

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, 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

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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

South Downs College HSDC is a Further education college located in Waterlooville, Hampshire, England. The college was formed on 1 August 2017 following a merger of South Downs College and Havant Sixth Form College. The College subsequently merged with Alton Coll ...

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!" c ...

’s tour DJ.

References

External links

''Nick Bright''
(BBC Radio 1Xtra) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bright, Nick Living people Alumni of the University of Westminster People from Croydon Mass media people from Portsmouth BBC Radio 1Xtra presenters BBC Radio 5 Live presenters Black British radio presenters English radio DJs English people of Ghanaian descent Year of birth missing (living people)