Justin Lee Collins
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Justin Lee Collins (born 28 July 1974) is an English television presenter and radio presenter from Bristol, often known as 'JLC'. His distinctive West Country accent is one of his trademarks, and he still lives in his native Bristol.
Collins worked as a double glazing demonstrator before making a brief foray into stand-up comedy in which he won the New Comedy Competition at the 1997 Glastonbury Festival and reached the finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival. He gave up doing stand-up in 2002 to concentrate fully on TV and radio presenting. He claims he will never return to the stand-up circuit.
He hosted the companion show for the first series of Strictly Come Dancing, but was then replaced by Claudia Winkleman the following year and the show moved from BBC Three to BBC 2.
His catchphrases include"Good Times!" (and occasionally "Bad Times!"), "I love it!", "Rock On!" and "Rock and roll!". He is known to be a big fan of classic rock music and can often be seen wearing T-shirts depicting his favourite bands, for example Whitesnake, Ramones, KISS, Guns N' Roses and Tom Petty. He is often seen offering high fives.
Collins presents The Friday Night Project with Alan Carr for Channel 4. He has also hosted a clutch of Bring Back... shows in which he aims to reunite groups, normally who are associated with TV or music. Previous shows included the 1980s cast of Grange Hill and The A-Team. The Bring Back series also included Bring Back The Christmas #1 and Bring Back The One Hit Wonder. Bring Back...Dallas is currently in production.
He was also one of the presenters of Channel 4 and Paramount's Flipside TV, and has also presented his own weekend show on London alternative station XFM. Justin Lee Collins is a an ardent Bristol City Fan and goes whenever he can. His wife Karen gave birth to their first child, a boy called Archie, in 2005.[1]
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- The Convention Crasher (2007) on Channel 4
- Law of the Playground (2006) on Channel 4
- Bring Back One Hit Wonders (2006) on Channel 4
- Bring Back The A-Team (2006) on Channel 4
- The Friday Night Project (2006-Present) on Channel 4
- Bring Back Christmas Number 1's (2005) on Channel 4
- FAQ U (2005) on Channel 4
- Generation Jedi (2005) on BBC Three
- The Games: Live At Trackside (2005) on E4
- Destination Three (2005) on BBC Three
- Bring Back Grange Hill (2005) on Channel 4
- Fat Nation (2005) on BBC Three
- Strictly Come Dancing (2004) on BBC One & BBC Three
- Flipside TV (2003) (Originally on Nation 217, then was bought by Paramount Comedy 1, before a trial period on terrestrial tv, on Channel 4)
- MTV Premieres on MTV
- Britain vs The World on Bravo
- 10 Things You Didn't Know About... on Bravo
- Brain Candy on BBC Three
- MTV Hot on MTV
- Pirate TV on Meridian Broadcasting
- The Stand Up Show on BBC One
- The E4 Daily on E4
