Steve Wright DJ | Steve Wright Biography
Steve Wright is an English radio personality and DJ, widely credited for creating the zoo format, with its zany, multi-personality approach. Wright presents Steve Wright in the Afternoon and Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs on BBC Radio 2. BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC’s national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom.
He has won awards which include Best DJ of the Year as voted by readers of The Sun, the Daily Mirror Readers Poll and by Smash Hits in 1994. Steve was awarded TRIC Personality of the Year for his radio programmes in 1998.
He attended Eastwood High School for Boys, near Southend-on-Sea, Essex. He occasionally broadcast a nascent radio show over the school speaker system from the school stock cupboard. Wright started broadcasting in 1976 at Thames Valley Radio Radio 210 in Reading, Berkshire alongside Mike Read. He got his big break at Radio Luxembourg where he presented his own nightly show, presenting a Saturday evening show, then Saturday morning before famously.
He took over a Sunday morning show entitled Steve Wright on Sunday, which meant he presented weekday afternoons Mondays to Thursdays only, with Mark Page and Paul Jordan presenting Friday afternoon’s show. His Sunday morning show ended in 1986 and he returned to five afternoons a week.
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Steve Wright Age | How Old Is Steve Wright?
Stephen Richard Wright was born on 26, August 1954 in Greenwich, London, England. She is 64 years old as of 2018.
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Steve was born the elder of two boys in a working-class family. He was born to Richard Wright, who was a tailor and the manager of the Burton’s store in Trafalgar Square. Wright was a quiet child and was never very scholarly and his chldhood ambition was to work in the entertainment business.
Steve Wright Wife | Is Steve Wright Married?
Wright was married to Cyndi Robinson from 1972 to 1999.
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Wright has two children, Tom and Lucy from that marriage. After his Radio 2 show Steve Wright in the Afternoon finishes at 5pm, he is thought to seldom join his colleagues in the BBC bar for after-work drinks.
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Wright has hosted Home Truths, The Steve Wright People Show, Auntie’s TV Favourites, Top Of The Pops and TOTP2 on BBC television.
He presented a BBC TV series, The Steve Wright People Show, from 1994–95. He had another stint in television as the narrator and writer of the retro pop show Top of the Pops 2 between 1997 and 2009. Wright presented the Michael Jackson special broadcast on 27 June 2009 as the last episode of TOTP2. Mark Radcliffe the presented the next episode which was the 2009 Christmas special broadcast on 23 December 2009.
Steve Wright In The Afternoon
He moved to daytime radio with Steve Wright in the Afternoon in 1981, which revolutionised British radio by introducing the zoo format.
The initial incarnation of Steve Wright in the Afternoon ran from 1981 to 1993 on BBC Radio 1. It became known in its Radio 1 incarnation for its cast of telephone characters created and performed by Gavin McCoy, Peter Dickson, Richard Easter and Phil Cornwell. He went out of its way to be irreverent, including stories taken from the Weekly World News like his mentor Kenny Everett. Its success led to a hit single, I’ll Be Back, released under the name Arnee and the Terminaters.
The style changed in later years dumping most of the characters and instead having a “zoo” format, with spoof guests and comedy sketches. The format was new to British radio and marked the beginning of the marginalisation (and eventual departure) of several established Radio 1 DJs over the years that followed.
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Steve worked behind the scenes at BBC Radio 2, as a Gramophone Librarian in the early 1970s. He then returned to Radio 2 in April 1996, where he began presenting Steve Wright’s Saturday Show and Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs, and his afternoon show beginning in 1999.
BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright In The Afternoon | Steve Wright Podcast
Steve Wright in the Afternoon was revived in 1999 following a shake-up at Radio 2 and Wright took over the slot from Ed Stewart.
Steve Wright Team
He presents his Radio 2 version of Steve Wright in the Afternoon on weekday afternoons from 2pm to 5pm, alongside Tim Smith and Janey Lee Grace (who have both also occasionally appear as relief presenters on the station), as well as traffic reporter Bobbie Pryor. Another frequent contributor, “The Old Woman”, was played by Joyce Frost who died in November 2016.
Steve Wright Playlist
Wright presents Sunday Morning Love Songs on his own between 9 and 11. It is a blend of classic love songs, dedications and real-life romance stories, features items including Contact, I Just Met, Getting Hitched and Chocolate and Flowers. The music played has a romantic feel.
It was revealed that the show was recorded on a Friday afternoon in 2013. The BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee said the failure to inform listeners properly breached guidelines on accuracy and interacting with the audience.
Steve Wright Books
Book of Factoids – 2005
Further Factoids – 2007
Book of the Amazing But True: Trivia for the Connoisseur – 1995
I’d rather be Wright Steve Wright – 1974
Ozark Trout Tales: A Fishing Guide for the White River System – 1994
Graham Bonnet: The Story Behind the Shades
It’s Another True Story – 1989
Uniqueness of the Injective Iii1 Factor – 1989
Just Keep Talking: The Story of the Chat Show – 1997
Arkansas Duck Hunter’s Almanac – 1997
Graham Bonnet -The Story Behind the Shades: An Authorised Illustrated Biography – 2017
Making Music with Computers & Software – 1994
Steve Wright Salary
Wright receives an annual salary of £440,000 a year at Radio 2. This makes him one of the ten best paid presenters by BBC.
Steve Wright Net Worth
The radio personality and DJ has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Steve Wright Weight
Wright has gained weight over time and he previously been open about his weight struggles and revealed he was 18 stone at his heaviest as of 2019.
Where Is Steve Wright Today?
Wright hosts Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2.