Richard Blackwood
Richard Blackwood (born Richard Clifford Blackwood, 15 May 1972, Clapham, London, England, is an English comedian, media personality, occasional actor and MC. Blackwood was step-brother of model Naomi Campbell after his father was married to her mother for a time. He co-presents a show on the London radio station Choice FM and guests as a disc jockey at various nightclubs.
Career
Blackwood presented the UK version of Singled Out on Channel 5[1] and, in 1999, presented his own show called The Richard Blackwood Show, which was commercially and critically unsuccessful[2].
Blackwood scored a UK #3 hit single in 2000, with the song 'Mama Who Da Man', based on Mama Used to Say by his uncle Junior. The 200,000+ selling hit single was written and produced by Lucas Secon (Pussycat Dolls, Jordin Sparks, Sugababes) and Mickey P.
Blackwood appeared on Brass Eye in 2001, during which he was tricked into saying that Internet paedophiles can make computer keyboards emit noxious fumes in order to subdue children. Blackwood even sniffed a keyboard and claimed it made him feel "suggestible". Blackwood also warned watching parents that exposure to the fumes would make their children "smell like hammers".[3] Having promised to 'soon be on the silver screen' in 2000's Mama Who Da Man, by 2002 he was instead on reality show Celebrity Detox having his bowels washed out on camera during a colonic irrigation. He had acting appearances in Holby City in 2003 and played the title character in the 2002 television series Ed Stone Is Dead and continued his foray into Z-list reality formats in ITV's The Club, losing out to fellow 'celebrities' Dean Gaffney and Sam Fox. In March 2007, he acted in the critically unsuccessful Bollywood film Don't Stop Dreaming.[4][5] In 2005, Blackwood appeared in the critically maligned Princes of Comedii DVD release, his involvement being described as "desperate" by DVD Times reviewer Eamonn McCusker.[6]
Blackwood is now a radio presenter for London station Choice FM.[7] He is also currently appearing as an understudy in the critically acclaimed adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof alongside Adrian Lester and James Earl Jones at the Ivor Novello Theatre in London. His musical and acting aspirations led Mark Lamarr to name Blackwood 'Won't Smith'.
Personal life
In a 2000 interview Blackwood claimed that "if" he had not made it in showbusiness he would have been "a graphic designer, designing buildings" (sic).[8] In a 2001 interview on Channel 4's website, Blackwood claimed to be good friends with Will Smith[9].
He was banned from driving for one year in Feb 2010 for speeding[10][11].
Discography
You'll Love to Hate This (2001)
Notes
- ^ [1] Singled Out
- ^ "Channel 4 Misses", MSN Entertainment (accessed 9 February 2008)
- ^ "Channel 4 defends 'sick' satire", BBC News, Saturday, 28 July 2001 (accessed 9 February 2008)
- ^ Don't Stop Dreaming (accessed 16 February 2008)
- ^ BBC Review of Don't Stop Dreaming (accessed 3 March 2008)
- ^ DVD Times - Princes of Comedii (accessed 3 March 2008)
- ^ Choice FM - Richard Blackwood (accessed 16 February 2008)
- ^ Channel 4 - The Richard Blackwood Show
- ^ Big Breakfast - Richard Blackwood (accessed 3 March 2008)
- ^ "Comedian Richard Blackwood given driving ban after speeding on Wessex Way". Daily Echo. 2010-02-19.
- ^ "Comedian Richard Blackwood given driving ban after speeding on Wessex Way". Daily Echo. 2010-02-19.
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