Shaun Keaveny
Shaun W Keaveny (born 14 June, 1972 in Leigh, Lancashire) is a British radio DJ who presents the breakfast show on digital radio station BBC 6 Music.
Shaun joined XFM in 2000 fronting the Early Breakfast show warming up for Christian O'Connell and presented the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show on XFM London up until 2006.
He is a proficient guitarist having been in rock band Mosque, between 1987 and 1993. Drummer Leon Parr went on to be drummer in Mr. So & So and work with members of The Verve, bassist Paul Banks is in unconventional band Santa's Buggerboyz but is also a librarian, keyboardist Damian Higgins is a teacher and vocalist John Ariss a renowned commercial insurance underwriter.
Keaveny's work in TV has included appearing with Richard Bacon on his show Flipside TV (Channel 4 and Paramount Comedy) and with Mary Anne Hobbs on JAMZ (Nation 217).
He is a regular pundit[specify] for ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4 and Five; the current narrator for E4's Stop Treating Me Like a Kid, Superheroes for Sky One and Channel 4's Road to V; and is the new "voice of Sky One".
He was often derided by Richard Bacon during Bacon's now defunct XFM drive-time show, though he had cordial relations with Bacon off air.
Shaun joined BBC 6 Music in 2007, to present the late evening show, which he did until April 2007. He began presenting the BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show on 2 April, 2007 and deputises for a range of presenters on BBC Radio 2.[1] The show was previously presented by Phill Jupitus, since the station came on air in March 2002.
Shaun became a father for the first known time in May 2008, a son Arthur, with Actress Lucy Irving.
Notes
Keaveny once was a challenger on the popular Japanese cooking-based game show Iron Chef. In 'Battle Pork' against Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai, Keaveny set a record by winning while only presenting one dish to the judges, a proper bacon butty with a side of tea. Notably strict judge Asako Kishi broke her stereotypically stern facade and proceeded to dance with Keaveny, asking him to make another one, and feed it to her personally.
- ^ "Shaun Keaveny to present new breakfast show on BBC 6 Music", BBC Press Release, March 12, 2007.
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