Background
Price was born in Norfolk on the 21 September 1967 and was adopted shortly afterwards.
Price was born in Norfolk on the 21 September 1967 and was adopted shortly afterwards.
In his early days, he attended Worth School, a Roman Catholic boarding school in Sussex. After school, he studied Italian at the University of Reading. Once completed, Price pursued his desire and in 1993, he became a reporter on Radio Berkshire — soon to move to Radio Solent.
However, he left university with the desire to become a journalist — he enrolled into the British Broadcasting Corporation reporter training scheme in 1991. In March 1994, he joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live to eventually become a Senior Broadcast Journalist. He sometimes stood in for Sybil Ruscoe, and occasionally presented Up All Night.
Price joined British Broadcasting Corporation News 24 when it was launched in November 1997 and presented a mixture of news, fashion, and entertainment in a 10:30pm slot.
However, after nine months, he was called to the office of a senior colleague and told that he was too camp to read the news. He and the producer Chris Wilson put together a nightly entertainment news discussion programme called Zero 30.
Liquid News After Stuart Murphy said that he enjoyed the programme he was persuaded to take it to digital television channel British Broadcasting Corporation Choice where it became Liquid News on 30 May 2000. The show became a cult hit on British Broadcasting Corporation Choice.
Even though the viewing figures were not very large, the critical reaction to the show was excellent, and Liquid News quickly became the flagship programme of the channel.
In 2001, Price hit the headlines when he signed a £280,000 two-year contract. Under his new contract, he hosted extra editions of Liquid News for British Broadcasting Corporation One, British Broadcasting Corporation Prime and British Broadcasting Corporation America, raising his profile further. Some sections of the press considered his salary to be too much for a presenter on a digital channel.
However, the British Broadcasting Corporation recognised Price"s potential and were keen to keep him from "defecting" to a rival network.
At the time, Price himself was quoted as jokingly saying that he didn"t understand why people would want to watch a programme presented by a "fat, balding, homosexual". Under proposals which were awaiting government approval, Price and Liquid News would have been the centrepiece of a new British Broadcasting Corporation channel, British Broadcasting Corporation Three.
Price hosted his last edition of Liquid News on 16 April 2002. Other work Towards the end of April 2002, Price was off work for a week with an acute ear infection.
He died of heart failure on the night of 21 April 2002 caused by meningoencephalitis - an "extremely rare" condition that had probably spread from his ear infection.
Celebrities such as singer Kylie Minogue, comic actor Ralf Little, game show host Anne Robinson and British Broadcasting Corporation newsreader Huw Edwards paid tribute to him. Within a few days of his death, the British Broadcasting Corporation website had received over 5000 e-mails paying tribute to him. Price"s funeral was a traditional requiem mass, which was held at the London Oratory on the 8th of May 2002.
A private cremation later took place at Mortlake Crematorium.