- Devin Griffin
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Dev Birth name Devin Joseph Jordan Griffin Born 23 December 1984
Hackney, London, England, UKStation(s) BBC Radio 1 Time slot 4:00AM - 6:30AM Style Pop Country United Kingdom Website Dev's Radio 1 Pages The Early Breakfast Show With Dev Other names Early Breakie Running time 4:00 AM - 6:30 AM Approx. 150mins Country United Kingdom Languages English Home station BBC Radio 1 Exec. producers Rhys Hughes Recording studio Yalding House Air dates since 21 September 2009 Audio format FM and Digital Radio Website http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/Dev/ Devin "Dev" Joseph Jordan Griffin (born 23 December 1984) is a British actor, radio presenter and DJ who is most commonly known for currently presenting the weekday early breakfast show on BBC Radio 1.
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Early life
Griffin was born on 23 December 1984 in Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom, to an Irish mother and a Jamaican father. He and his twin sister are the youngest of five siblings. He was educated at The Ravenscroft School and attended the after-school drama club at the Anna Scher Theatre School.
Career
Early career
In 2002, whilst studying for his A Levels at The Ravenscroft School, Griffin landed a job co-presenting the children's interactive TV show Smile (credited as DJ Devstar) alongside his childhood friend Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton.[1] Six months into filming, he was approached by Radio 1Xtra to present a Saturday morning show with his Smile co-presenter Reggie; the 'Reg and Dev' show was born. In 2003 Griffin left Smile to concentrate on his radio career, and soon afterwards began presenting a solo show on 1xtra on Sunday mornings. Since September 2009 he has presented the early morning breakfast show (Monday-Friday 4-6:30am).[2]
Acting
In 2006 Griffin created and starred in children's sitcom The Crust [3]
DJ
Griffin warmed up for Kanye West at the Hammersmith Apollo and Jurassic 5 at the London Astoria.
Radio
On 5 June 2009 the BBC announced that Dev was moving from his early breakfast show on Radio 1Xtra across to Radio 1 to take on the weekend breakfast show.[4] This show started in July 2009.
In a further shake up to their daytime programming, during the Summer of 2009, it was announced that Dev would be moving from Weekend Breakfast, to replace Greg James, as the host of the weekday Radio 1 Early Breakfast slot.
His first show as permanent presenter occurred on 21 September 2009. A new feature on his show is the 'CD Graveyard' feature, where listeners can send Dev their old CD singles and he will play them on Radio 1 one last time before sending them to the 'CD Graveyard' as CD Heaven or CD Hell. On Monday 23 November a new feature came into the show called "I'm here all week" where a listener gets to choose a song for each day with a theme for each day, Metal Monday, Trance Tuesday, One Hit Wonder Wednesday, First Bought Thursday and Freedom Friday.
Preceded by
Chappers and DaveRadio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show host
July 2009- September 2009Succeeded by
Edith BowmanPreceded by
Greg JamesRadio 1 Early Breakfast Show host
September 2009-PresentSucceeded by
IncumbentPersonal life
Dev currently lives in South London where he is the DJ in Left Step Band.[5]
Radio presenting
- Early Breakfast Show (BBC Radio 1)
- Badge (BBC Radio 1Xtra)
- Reg & Dev (BBC Radio 1Xtra)
Television presenting
- Smile (BBC2)
- Bring It On (BBC1)
Television acting
- The Crust — Starring Dev Griffin and Reggie Yates (Darrall Macqueen)
- Emmerdale
- I Bring You Frankincense (Crucial Films)
- The Bill
- Hollyoaks
References
- ^ "Devin Griffin". On It Artists. 17 May 2009. http://www.onitonline.co.uk/cv/devin_griffin.pdf. Retrieved 17 May 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "BBC 1xtra borrows Radio 1 DJs". Radio Today. 3 August 2007. http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2275.12. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
- ^ "The Crust". Darrall Macqueen. 17 May 2009. http://www.darrallmacqueen.com/flash/project_crust.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
- ^ "Dev serves up weekend breakfast on Radio 1". BBC Press Office. 5 June 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/06_june/05/dev.shtml. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
- ^ "Left Step Band". MySpace. 17 May 2009. http://www.myspace.com/leftstepband. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
External links
- Dev at BBC Programmes
- Devin Griffin at the Internet Movie Database
- Devin Griffin on Twitter
- Left Step Band on Myspace
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Related articles Categories:- BBC Radio 1
- British actors
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- Living people
- People from Mill Hill
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