Shaun Keaveny Biography

Shaun Keaveny born Shaun William Keaveny is a British broadcaster working for BBC 6 channel hosting the breakfast show. He presents a breakfast show on BBC Radio 6, a digital radio station. As of 2017, he is a single parent of two sons.

He is an easily recognizable presence after fronting the Isle of Wight and Latitude festivals for Sky, and the Mercury Music Prize for BBC2. He’s best known for hosting the BBC6 Breakfast Show 7-10 am each Mon-Fri morning, reaching 1.2 million listeners every week, making it the most listened-to program on the network.

He also does acting, doing a stand-in for Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday Show. He is also a regular pundit on Richard Bacon’s BBC 5 Live Programme. In summer 2017 Spotify launched his original podcast series Shaun Keaveny’s Show and Tell.

Shaun Keaveny Age

Shaun Keaveny was born on 14 June 1972 in Leigh, Greater Manchester. He is 47 years old as of 2019. His zodiac sign is Gemini.

Shaun Keaveny Height

Shaun is 5 feet 9 inches in height which is equivalent to 1.8 meters tall.

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Listen to Shaun’s shows from Monday to Friday on BBC 6 from 7 am to 10 am

Shaun Keaveny Wife

Shaun Keaveny who was once rumored to be gay proved everyone wrong by marrying his long-time girlfriend Lucy Irving in 2009. Eight years have passed in their relationship, and the pair is still together. Lucy is an author and adventurer.

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Shaun has always kept his life under the radar and there is not much information provided about his personal life. Also, there was a time that some sources claimed that they separated in 2011, however, proving them wrong again, Lucy tweeted a picture of them together in 2014 that made everything clear.

For facts, it is clear that Shaun and his wife were together till 2014 and we can only assume that they are living a happy life with their children as there is no confirmation about their separation as of yet.

Shaun Keaveny Children

Radio DJ Shaun Keaveny and his wife Lucy Irving shares two beautiful children together. He is a dad to two boys named Arthur and Wilfie.

Shaun Keaveny Family

Shaun was born the eldest of three sons into a middle-class family. He was born as the son to father Dunnhy; a music shop owner and mother Beth who was a gardener and a health instructor. He has two younger brothers who are both doing well with their life and career.

Shaun Keaveny Career

Shaun played guitar and sang in the student band Mosque between 1987 and 1993. He officially joined BBC in 2000 fronting the Good Morning Britain breakfast show warming up for Anne Diamond and was later selected to present the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show on XFM London until 2006. By night he performed stand-up using the name the Leigh Buffalo. His work on television includes appearing with Richard Bacon on his show Flipside TV (Channel 4 and Paramount Comedy), with Mary Anne Hobbs on JAMZ (Nation 217) and appeared on Ready Steady Cook with Huey Morgan. He also appeared as himself in an episode of The Bill in 2005. He has narrated for E4’s Stop Treating Me Like a Kid, Superheroes for Sky One and Channel 4’s Road to V; and was the new “voice of Sky One”.

Keaveny joined BBC Radio 6 Music in 2007 and presented its late evening show until April 2007. He began presenting the BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show on 2 April 2007. He also substitutes for a range of presenters on BBC Radio 2. The show was originally presented by Phill Jupitus, who had hosted the show since the station’s inception in March 2002. His current breakfast show includes features such as ‘Middle-Aged Shout-Outs’, ‘Small Claims Court’ and ‘Keaveny’s Believe It or Not’. The show has regular music news updates from presenter Matt Everitt. Professor Brian Cox is a regular contributor to the show.

Keaveny’s first book, R2D2 lives in Preston was published in November 2010. It is a compilation of little known facts relating to various towns throughout the United Kingdom, advised by listeners to his radio show in a feature entitled “Toast the Nation”. On 16 February 2013, Keaveny took part in the fifth series of Let’s Dance for Comic Relief as a member of “Destiny’s Dad” alongside fellow stand up comedians Hal Cruttenden and Mark Dolan.

On 11 April 2014, Keaveny was brought on stage by Manchester band Elbow at Leeds First Direct Arena to play extra drums on their track Grounds for Divorce. It was announced on August 2018 that Keaveny will move from his weekdays BBC 6 Music breakfast show, into the Radcliffe and Maconie weekdays afternoon slot in January 2019.

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Shaun Keaveny Playlist

Visit the BBC official website to listen to all his playlist songs and enjoy all music in his shows.

Shaun Keaveny Podcast

Currently, there are no available episodes of his shows on the podcast.

Shaun Keaveny Voice Over

To listen to his voice-overs, visit www.sueterryvoices.com

Shaun Keaveny Stand Up

He played guitar and sang in the student band Mosque between 1987 and 1993. He joined BBC in 2000 fronting the Good Morning Britain breakfast show warming up for Anne Diamond and later presented the weekday afternoon show which aired from Monday-Thursday and later joined the Friday breakfast show on XFM London until 2006. He did stand-up at night using the name Leigh Buffalo.

Shaun Keaveny Divorce

For facts, it is clear that Shaun and his wife were together till 2014 and we can only assume that they are living a happy life with their children as there is no confirmation about their separation as of yet.

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Shaun Keaveny Net worth

He has an estimated net worth of 4.5 million.

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Lauren Laverne named as 6 Music’s new breakfast show host.

Updated on: Thursday 9 August 2018

Lauren Laverne will take over as host of the BBC 6 Music breakfast show from next year, replacing Shaun Keaveny as the lead presenter on the digital station. The former Kenickie singer currently presents the station’s mid-morning slot, which will be taken over by Mary Anne Hobbs.

“I’m so excited about our new show and delighted to be part of the next phase of 6 Music’s evolution,” said Laverne. “Whatever the day brings for our listeners, we intend to get them ready for it with a fantastic selection of music and guests who have something worth hearing to say. I can’t wait to get started!”

The shakeup of the station’s programming is designed to put more emphasis on the diversity of music played. It also makes it one of the few national stations to have two women anchoring its morning lineup. Keaveny and his music news presenter Matt Everitt will remain with the station, taking over Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie’s early afternoon 1-4 pm slot. In turn, Radcliffe and Maconie will take over the station’s weekend breakfast show.

Keaveny said he would miss the program: “The last 11 years, four months and three days of breakfast radio has allowed me to create an entire world of daftness, aided and abetted by my most wonderful listeners, who I’m chuffed to be able to leave in the care of my relay partner, Lauren Laverne.

“Breakfast radio has reduced me to the kind of person that cries at traffic lights and remonstrates with shopping trolleys, so I give joyful thanks for the opportunity to take my show into the afternoons and sleep past 5.13 am. There I’ll try my best to eventually build a show that’s a worthy successor to the legacy of Mark and Stuart, two of my genuinely favorite broadcasters.”

6 Music was threatened with closure less than a decade ago but benefited substantially from the publicity around the campaign to save it, aided by rapid growth in digital radio listening. The station attracts more than 2.4 million listeners a week, according to the latest industry Rajar figures. During his time with the station, Keaveny has built up the breakfast show audience to 1 million – more than half the number who listen to the longer-established BBC 5 Live breakfast show.

Laverne’s new program will start at 7.30 am, 30 minutes later than the current schedule, with the early breakfast host Chris Hawkins extending his programme to make up the difference. Fans of 6 Music include Samantha Cameron, the wife of the former prime minister, who said she would “happily pay my license fee just for 6 Music”. The announcement about Laverne came on the same day that Nick Grimshaw presented his final Radio 1 breakfast show, which attracts 5.3 million listeners. He is due to hand over to Greg James in the autumn.

Source: www.theguardian.com