Career
He currently co-presents the British Broadcasting Corporation Newcastle breakfast show with Charlie Charlton. He has featured in numerous radio and television shows, such as Mitch Benn"s Crimes Against Music on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, Coronation Street, Ideal and Hebburn. Born at Thornley Colliery, near Peterlee, County Durham, he was brought up in a working men"s club and trained as a priest.
Having been educated at Middlesex University, his early jobs have included bike courier and demonstrating toys at Harrods.
In 2003 he performed a one-man show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a red Ford Escort. Alfie Joey"s Mini Cabaret attracted a positive review from comedy website Chortle.
The show was featured on Sky News and the Australian Comedy Channel, and featured as a question on The Weakest Link. He was nominated Best Compère at the 2006 Chortle Awards.
Joey returned to Edinburgh in 2011 with his new one man comedy musical, "Monopolise" which did a short tour of North East theatres and the Liverpool comedy festival.
In 2015, at the North east comedy festival, Jesterval, he began performing in a double act, The Mimic Men, alongside Britain"s Got Talent impressionist Cal Halbert.
