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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 He has appeared and performed at many festivals, including the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Latitude Festival in Suffolk and Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland. He has performed stand-up internationally, including an appearance at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. [24] His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years, Carr's career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became known for co-hosting The Friday Night Project (2006–2009) with Justin Lee Collins. This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (2008), and he went on to star in the comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009–2016) which aired on Channel 4. Since 2017, Carr often stands in as a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. In 2019, he became a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. In 2021, he began hosting BBC One’s Interior Design Masters.

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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 ] The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards - past winners". www.britishcomedyawards.com . Retrieved 4 May 2022.

In his very first book, Alan tells his life story, (‘oh and what a life’) with his unique twist of natural, observational humour – The most heartfelt and raw parts of this autobiography were the reflections on Alan's childhood - as much as this autobiography was written and narrated with his cheeky tone - and growing up in the shadow of his football manager father. With his father so known, there were always expectations about what his son *should* be, expectations which Alan never fit and was inadvertently punished for. Trying to come to terms with this burden and recognising that his sexuality was not "just a phase", Alan gave a real sense of the imposter syndrome that he experienced in his adolescence and how he gradually moved through that with the freedom of university and travel (via some particularly mundane jobs, who knew that Alan Carr has witnessed so many historically-significant Tesco moment?!?). Alan Carr set to host Picture Slam - a brand new Saturday quiz show coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2023". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. 16 February 2023.

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The brilliantly funny and inimitable Alan Carr tells his life story in his own words, from growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton to his rise to become one of Britain's best-loved comedians. Carr with actor Oliver Savell, who plays the comedian as a boy in the sitcom Changing Ends. Photograph: Matt Frost/ITV Getting older does mean thinking about death. Last month, he went to the funeral of his friend the comedian Paul O’Grady, who died aged 67. He was unnerved – by the service, by the burial, by the process of watching the coffin lowered into the ground. At the wake, he could not stop thinking: “But he’s there, he’s still in the ground. So very weird,” he says, adding, “I’m always thinking of death. Not like suicide, but what happens when you’re going to the other side?” He began his comedy career in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. His breakthrough was in 2001 when he won the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year.

Alan Carr's Adventures With Agatha Christie - Channel 4 commissions new three-part series from Boom for More 4". channel4.com/press. 6 May 2022. Just now, he continues, he was in a bookshop and when the assistant handed him the book he’d bought [The Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson], he noticed the man had painted nails. “And I did not clutch me pearls. I thought, ‘Oooh.’ I mean, I wasn’t vomiting, I was thinking, ‘Wow.’ For me, that’s people being comfortable with their sexuality.” He lifts his eyebrows. “Maybe he doesn’t even identify as gay, what do I know? My friend’s kid had blue nail varnish. I said, is he, you know? And they said, ‘No, he just wants blue nail varnish.’ So, we’re all learning. Every day is a school day.” 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