David Hoyle

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David Hoyle as The Divine David

David Hoyle (born 19 September 1962, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is a performance artist, actor and comedian. He is notable for presenting his own arts TV show Divine David Presents on Channel 4, 1999 under his stage persona The Divine David. This was followed a year later by the series The Divine David Heals. Hoyle is openly gay.^[1]

Hoyle publicly killed off this character in 2000 and put his career on hold to cope with a nervous breakdown.^[2]

His two recent series of shows, Magazine and Magazine the Reprint, in London have played to capacity audiences. In a recent episode of Magazine the Reprint, David Hoyle raised the issue of HIV and AIDS, presenting a film of his own HIV test, taken earlier that day.^[3]

His most notable acting role to date was in the comedy Nathan Barley (Channel 4). He also appeared prominently in the music video for Faith No More's cover of "I Started a Joke".^[4][5] Hoyle is currently performing in ensemble theatre piece For All The Wrong Reasons, a collaboration with Contact Theatre (Manchester) & Victoria Theatre Co. (Belgium) alongside other work.

[edit] Works

• Played Freddi in Velvet Goldmine (1998)
• The Divine David Presents (1999)
• The Divine David Heals (2000)
• The Divine David On Ice (2000)
• Played Doug Rocket in Nathan Barley (2005)
• David Hoyle’s SOS (2006-7)
• Magazine (2006)
• Magazine: The Reprint (2007)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The David Hoyle page at Duckie
• David Hoyle at the Internet Movie Database
• Reviews of Magazine and Magazine: The Reprint