Vernon Kay Bio, Family, Wife, Children, Age, Height, Net Worth and Career

Vernon Kay Biography

Vernon Kay (Full name- Vernon Charles Kay) is an English television presenter, radio DJ and former model. He was born on 28 April 1974, Horwich, United Kingdom. He is famous for his television roles with ITV, presenting shows like All Star Family Fortunes, 2006–2015, Beat the Star, 2008–2009 and Splash!, 2013–2014.

Vernon Kay presented other shows including The Whole 19 Yards on ITV in 2010, Home For the Holidays, for Channel 4 in 2011 (a Christmas entertainment show) and an ITV mini-series, Let’s Get Gold in 2012. He began hosting a new ITV game show, 1000 Heartbeats, in 2015. Between 2004 and 2012, Kay presented his own BBC Radio 1 show. from September 2015 until March 2017, Kay presented his own show on Radio X.

Vernon Kay Family

Kay was born to Norman and Gladys. He was brought up in Horwich, Greater Manchester. Kay has a younger brother named Stephen.

Vernon Kay Wife | Daughters

Kay has been married to fellow TV star Tess Daly since 2003. Together they have two daughters Phoebe and Amber.

Vernon Kay Age

Born on  28 April 1974, Horwich, United Kingdom, Kay is 44 years old as of 2018.

Vernon Kay Height

Vernon Kay stands at a towering height of 6 ft 5 inc (1.9 m).

Vernon Kay Net Worth

Kay is estimated to have a net worth of £2 million.

Kay With His Wife Tess Daly

Vernon Kay Career

Kay started out as model when he was spotted at the BBC’s Clothes Show Live by a model scout from Select. His modelling career was booming when he was picked out by Channel 4 after he won Model Of The Week on The Big Breakfast.

Kay hosted the third series of Celebrities Under Pressure, in 2004, on ITV. He presented primetime game show All Star Family Fortunes since 2006. The show was announced as rested by ITV in June 2015 until 2017. He replaced Ant & Dec who hosted the first series and presented Vernon Kay’s Gameshow Marathon, in 2007.

It was announced that Kay would host Channel 5’s coverage of the 2017–18 Formula E motor racing season in November 2017. He co-presents the FIA’s coverage of the 2018–19 season.
Kay, Gabby Logan and Tom Daley co-presented the ITV diving show Splash! in 2013 and 2014.
The programme was dropped after two series. After Channel 4 regained the NFL rights from the BBC, in 2013. He was announced as a presenter of The American Football Show, airing on Saturday mornings.

Vernon Kay Family Fortunes

Kay presented All Star Family Fortunes which began airing on 28 October 2006 and ended on 14 June 2015. It aired for twelve series. All Star Family Fortunes is a British television game show broadcast on ITV. It is a celebrity resurrection of the original Family Fortunes that aired from 6 January 1980 to 10 January 2003. It is based on Family Feud, an American game show.

Vernon Kay Formula E

Kay presented Formula E motor racing for  the 2017–18 season on BBC Channel 5.

Vernon Kay Radio X

Kay worked briefly at Radio X for 18 months before leaving on 17th March, 2017.

Vernon Kay Brother

Kay has a younger brother, Steven Kay. He is a teacher by profession. has been signed up by GMTV to present a series of hints about starting school. He appeared alongside his older brother on All Star Family Fortunes. He also set tricky maths questions for listeners to Vernon’s Saturday morning Radio One show.

Vernon Kay Peter Kay

Kay is not related to Peter Kay and it’s just coincidence that they seem to look similar, come from the same town and share the same surname!

Vernon Kay Long Hair

Kay always wore his hair long until 2007 when he finally decided to cut it off:

He said, “I sat in the chair and I thought you know what, ‘Go for it’. I said ‘Go for it quickly before I change my mind.’ There was a massive mound of hair on the floor and Tess was like ‘I can’t look’. “And then she was speechless. It took her about five or 10 minutes to come round to it and then she loved it.” He added: “I think it’s rejuvenated various things.” (metro.co.uk)

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