Chris Ramsey (comedian)

Ramsey began his career in comedy in 2007 by hosting an open-mic night in Newcastle upon Tyne.^[2] In 2008, he was a nominee for the "Chortle Student Comedian of the Year".^[3] In 2010, Ramsey took his first solo show, Aggrophobic, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.^[4][5] His 2011 show, Offermation, was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award.^[6] Offermation was recorded for BBC Radio 4, and broadcast in March 2012.^[7] Ramsey's 2012 Edinburgh show was Feeling Lucky which was followed by a national tour.^[8] In November 2012 he appeared on Sky 1's Soccer AM as a guest but was removed from the programme for using offensive language twice live on air.^[9]

From October 2012 to December 2013, Ramsey starred as Jack Pearson in Jason Cook's BBC Two sitcom Hebburn.^[10] The show is set in Hebburn, near to Ramsey's hometown, South Shields.^[11] It screened for two series and a Christmas special. In 2014, Ramsey appeared on Live at the Apollo for the first time.^[12] In 2015, he took part in the Channel 4 series Time Crashers.^[13] In 2016, Ramsey co-presented I'm A Celebrity: Extra Camp on ITV2 alongside Joe Swash, Vicky Pattison and Stacey Solomon.^[14] He was replaced by Joel Dommett for the 2017 series.^[15] He replaced Kevin McHale as the presenter of Virtually Famous from December 2016.^[16] He also presented his own series The Chris Ramsey Show for Comedy Central, beginning January 2017.^[17]

Ramsey is a regular fixture at the Funny Way To Be Comedy Club in Barnard Castle, having performed there on eight occasions.^[18] In May 2017, it was confirmed that Ramsey would take over from Russell Howard as the host of Stand Up Central, due to Howard being busy with tour commitments.^[19]

In March 2020, it was announced that Ramsey would be presenting the BBC talent competition series Little Mix: The Search,^[20] which began airing in September 2020.^[21]

Also since 2020, Ramsey has hosted BBC's Children in Need telethon, with a selection of other presenters, including Mel Giedroyc, Alex Scott, Stephen Mangan, Ade Adepitan, Graham Norton, Jason Manford, and Lenny Rush.

In 2022, Ramsey took part in the thirteenth series of Taskmaster, finishing as runner-up.

While appearing on Strictly Come Dancing, Ramsey spoke openly about his problems as a teenager, resulting from bad acne, which caused him to take up comedy as a way to deal with his troubles.^[24]

Ramsey married Rosie Winter on 25 July 2014^[25] and they have two sons. In 2018, the couple shared via social media that she had had a miscarriage when she was 12 weeks pregnant with their second child.^[26] In February 2019, the pair started a weekly podcast, Shagged Married Annoyed, which they co-host from their home.^[27] In July 2020, they announced via social media that they were expecting their second child.^[28] Their second son was born on 6 January 2021.^[29]