Career
He co-presented the Tyne Tees television popular show "All Right Now" and spent several years as a disc jockey at Sunderland Mayfair (Mecca) in the late 1970s. He also produced the Channel 4 music show The White Room between 1995 and 1996 and worked on The Tube in Newcastle the 1980s. He became one of the judges on ITV1 reality show Soapstar Superstar in 2006 and reprised this role in 2007.
He is a supporter of Sunderland A.F.C.