Jonathan Wilkes

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Jonathan Wilkes
Born	(1978-08-01) 1 August 1978 (age 43) Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Occupation	Entertainer, Singer, presenter, friend of Robbie Williams
Spouse(s)	​ (m. 2004)​
Children	2

Jonathan Wilkes (born 1 August 1978)^[1] is an English entertainer who is famous due to being a close friend of Robbie Williams.^[2]

Early life and career[]

Jonathan Wilkes was born in Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent, to Eileen Wilkes and Graham Wilkes, and spent most of his childhood in Packmoor, an outlying village of Chell, with his friend Robbie Williams. He has one older sister called Kay. He signed for Port Vale FC, aged seven, and played for Everton FC as a teenager. He was dropped from the team due to his unwillingness to 'eat, sleep and breathe football'.^[3]

In 1996, he won the Cameron Mackintosh Young Entertainer of the Year Award. From this, he went on to work in Blackpool under the name 'Jonathan and the Space Girls', until being spotted by Kevin Bishop of the BBC, who employed him as a presenter for the precursor channel to BBC3.^[4] He has since gone on to work in West End Musicals, and has presented You've Been Framed!. He had a brief spell as a pop-music singer like his friend Robbie Williams, his single "Just Another Day" went to No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart.^[5]

Wilkes is a panto star, being a regular at the Regent Theatre Stoke since 2005.

Soccer Aid[]

Wilkes participates and assists in the organisation of Soccer Aid, an event he has been involved in since 2006 with his friend Robbie Williams.

References[]

External links[]

• Jonathan Wilkes at IMDb