Jon Holmes is a seven-time Sony and Double Bafta winning writer, comedian and polymorphic media alloy.

As host of the talkRADIO lunchtime show, Jon has won huge acclaim for his unique take on the Talk radio format. There is nothing else like it on the airwaves.

Prior to Talk, Jon was the host of the Xfm Breakfast Show, broadcast from London’s glittering West End. Jon woke the audience with enormous indie music, funny, irreverent broadcasting and the best ballsy entertainment on the radio every weekday between 6am and 10am.

Alongside talkRADIO he continues to haunt BBC Radio 4 like a tiny ghost, writing and performing as one of The Now Show team. His own series ‘Listen Against’ on R4 was “glorious”, “triumphant”, “stunningly made” and “beautifully crafted and scalpel sharp”  depending on which newspaper you read.

Prior to starting on X, Jon presented his own weekend show on BBC 6 Music (Saturdays 4-7pm) and (with Miranda Hart) sat in to host the Radio 2 Breakfast Show when Chris Evans was on his holibobs. He did the same for Graham Norton in the summer of 2012 too.

He has appeared on 5Live’s Men’s Hour and also had his own show on the network Jon Holmes’s Mob Rule. He also holds a British Comedy Award for Best Radio Comedy.

On TV Jon has worked with Armando Iannucci, Stephen Fry, Harry Hill and Graham Norton. Jon also co-created Dead Ringers and co-writes the hugely popular Royal Television Society and Bafta Award winning Horrible Histories for BBC1. Other TV includes Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, Top Gear and 2010/2011 Unwrapped.

He is a travel writer for The Sunday Times and his books Rock Star Babylon, The Now Show Book and The History of the World Through Twitter are now also available on a futuristic Kindle.  His latest book, A Portrait of an Idiot as a Young Man, is published by Orion.

He was once asked to go on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. He told them to sod off.