Dominik Diamond
Dominik hosted the Talk 107 drive time show after previously hosting the XFM Radio Scotland daily breakfast show, where he was nominated in the category of ‘Music Personality of the Year 2007' in the prestigious Sony Radio Awards as well as XTrack ‘Scottish Radio Presenter of the Year 2007. He presented a twenty part series for Bravo ‘When Games Attack' and becoming the first Daily Star columnist to present BBC's ‘What The Papers Say' . He has also appeared on BBC1's ‘The Daily Politics Show' ‘The Last Word with Nicky Campbell and the ten part series ‘Rubble Trouble with the Diamonds' for Discovery Real Time. In 2006 he headed to the Phillipines, Italy and Israel to rediscover his lapsed Catholicism in ‘Crucify Me' for Five.
There have been two rseries for Channel 4 - Extreme Celebrity Detox which features him doing Tai Chi and rock climbing in Slovenia with Jack Osbourne and ‘B&B With The Bardsleys' which saw him running a Bed and Breakfast in Blackpool with Wife Swap harridan Lizzie Bardsley.
At any given moment, on any given day somewhere on TV Dominik Diamond is talking about something. Whether it's cracking gags at other people's expense on numerous ‘100 Greatest' or ‘Behaving Badly' programmes, giving forthright opinions and analysis on a plethora of news and current affairs shows or presenting items on Richard & Judy: If you channel surf for 27 seconds you WILL be met with that caustic wit and interesting, ever-changing facial hair.
Dominik began his career in broadcasting on Gamesmaster the Channel 4 cult phenomenon of the early 90s. This was followed with Sportscall on Radio 5 Live -the longest running programme in the station's history. Mr Diamond went onto make The All New Dominik Diamond Radio Show for 5 Live in 2000, which garnered a record-breaking nine consecutive Pick of the Week accolades in Heat Magazine.
In quick succession he was given a funny food show on STV (Boiling Point), a funny quiz show for BBC Radio Scotland (The Time Of Your Life) and, best of all, writing and presenting reins on comedy news quiz Caledonia MacBrains for BBC1 Scotland
Throughout the 90s he also did things like Pick of the Week and a complete Philosophy Figures series for Radio 4 and countless interview shows for BBC Choice under the banner Dominik Diamond Meets...
His writing career began on Smash Hits in 1992 and two years later he was poached by FHM. Dominik's intellectual qualities had not gone unnoticed and The Star asked him to join as chief columnist where he writes on everything that has amused or annoyed him in the world of current affairs, TV and music. He is also a regular columnist on the magazines PC Zone and Good Call as well as a regular contributor to British Forces Radio and CBS Radio in America.
Showreel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmqywRO-b8