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English television presenter, producer, narrator and actor

James Paul Theakston (born 21 December 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, narrator and actor. He has hosted several television programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. He co presented the Saturday morning BBC One children's show Live & Kicking, alongside Zoe Ball between 1996 and 1999, and co hosted the music programme Top of the Pops between 1998 and 2003. He currently co hosts the national breakfast show with Amanda Holden on Heart Radio. Theakston narrated the BBC documentary series Traffic Cops from 2003 to 2015, and on Channel 5 from 2016 onwards. He has won a BAFTA award for Live & Kicking and numerous awards for his radio work, including a Sony Gold, 3 Silver Awards and 4 Bronze awards, 2 Arqiva awards, 3 TRIC awards and 2 New York Radio Festival Awards.

He joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of 13, After leaving Lancing College with nine O Levels and one GCSE in Maths, retaking it at BHASVIC, he attended North London Polytechnic (now London Metropolitan University), from which he graduated with a first class degree in business studies.

Before embarking on a broadcasting career, he worked for auctioneers Christie's, and planned to study art history at the Courtauld Institute. Scott left Heart Breakfast in 2013; she was replaced by Spice Girl Emma Bunton, who already had a show on the Heart network. Bunton left in 2018. On 3 June 2019, Heart Breakfast went national across the UK, following a decision by the UK radio regulator OFCOM to reduce local programming requirements. Theakston currently hosts the show alongside Amanda Holden. Between Bunton’s departure and Holden’s arrival, Heart DJ Lucy Horobin was brought in as a temporary co host for Theakston.

On television, after presenting The O Zone with Jayne Middlemiss, Theakston married Sophie Siegle in Ditchling on 15 September 2007, and they live in west London. They have two children. He was previously romantically linked to socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, actor Joely Richardson, and models Erin O'Connor and Sophie Dahl. He is a keen fencer and competed for Sussex in 1985. As captain of Ditchling Cricket Club, Theakston was a member of the first cricket team from England to play the Afghan cricket team in Kabul. He is a member of Mensa, a Patron of Humanists UK and a supporter of Brighton & Hove Albion.

Theakston took a break in 2003 to travel to Uganda to meet with former child soldiers. He is a patron for Cancervive, a charity established to address the needs of anyone whose family or friends are cancer sufferers. He played in his fifth successive Soccer Aid match at Old Trafford in June 2014. Having, in 2010, saved four penalties for England against the Rest of the World in a penalty shoot out, before missing a penalty himself in a defeat, he was later named man of the match for his performance in goal. On 4 October 2019, Theakston took a break from Heart Breakfast to set off on his Bike Britain Challenge, a cycling event for Global's charity Make Some Noise. The event lasted eight days, with Theakston cycling 650 miles from Edinburgh and arriving in London on the 11th. Along the way, he stopped at Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol, and met numerous life threatened children and their families. In June 2022, Theakston gave his wicket to the bustling medium pace of Ricky Boardman from Kew Cricket Club's 3rd XI, an event Theakston defined as 'pure theatre'.

In 2002, Theakston's visit to a Mayfair brothel was exposed by British newspaper The Sunday People. Theakston attempted to prevent publication of his paying £40 for sex and his cocaine snorting with a legal injunction. The judge, Mr Justice Ouseley, allowed publication of the story based on interviews and said, "If a well known man has sexual relations with a prostitute in a brothel, the desire on his part to keep their actions and 'relationship' confidential and the desire on the part of the other to exploit their actions and relationship commercially are irreconcilable." He went on to say, "I consider that the scales would be likely to come down in favour of the freedom of expression of the newspaper and of the prostitutes unless it was clear that there was a strong case of inhibiting it."

Year Programme Channel Notes 2004 Drive (The Afternoon Play) BBC One 1999 2002 The Priory Channel 4 Natural Born Losers BBC One Pick n Mix UK Play Comic Relief BBC One Landmarks BBC Two The Brits ITV 2001 100 Greatest Kids Shows Channel 4 Behind the Music VH1 Richest Kids ITV Bitesize BBC Two 2004 The Simpsons Quiz Channel 4 2004 The UK Music Hall of Fame Channel 4 50 Years, 50 Records ITV The Oscars: Live Sky One/Sky Movies 1976 Wish You Were Here ITV 1983 Taggart ITV 1995–2000 The O Zone BBC Two 1996–1999 Live & Kicking BBC One 1997–2000 Glastonbury Festival BBC One/BBC Two 1997–2003 Top of the Pops BBC One 1998 Blankety Blank BBC One Guest 1998 Confessions BBC One Guest 1998 Not a Lot of People Know That BBC One Guest 1998–1999 Grammy Awards BBC One 1999 Total Eclipse BBC One 1999 It's Only TV but I Like It BBC One Guest 1999 NetAid BBC Two 1999 Phones, Robbers and Videotape BBC One 1999 2000 Today BBC One 1999–? Children in Need BBC One 1999–2000 Rock Profile BBC Two 2000–2001 A Question of Pop BBC One 2000 Before They Were Famous BBC One Guest 2000 Bob Martin ITV 2000 BBC Music Live BBC One 2000 Holiday BBC One 2000 Secret Life of Stars BBC One 2000 Stars of Tomorrow BBC One 2000 Trading Places BBC One 2001 The True Story of TOTP BBC Two Host 2001 Aqua BBC Two 2001 Car Wars BBC One 2001 Linda Green BBC One2002 Sport Relief BBC One Queen's Jubilee Concert BBC One 2003 Murder in Mind BBC One 2003–2006 The Games Channel 4 2003— Traffic Cops BBC One (2003–2015)Channel 5 (2016—)2004 Mad About Alice BBC One Beg, Borrow or Steal BBC Two Little Britain BBC Three Agatha Christie's Marple ("The Body in the Library") ITV2004–2005 With a Little Help from My Friends ITV 2005 All*Star Cup Sky One2007 Concert for Diana BBC One The National Lottery People's Quiz BBC One The Search Channel 4 2008–2015 Motorway Cops BBC One 2009 FM ITV2 2013 This Morning Summer ITV 2013– Forbidden History Yesterday/UKTV 2015– Caught on Camera ITV 2016 Dogs Might Fly Sky One 2017 Richard Osman's House of Games BBC Two