Pat Sharp
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Pat Sharp | |
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 Sharp at Capital FM | |
| Born | Patrick Sharpin England |
| Occupations | Radio & television presenter |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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Patrick Sharpin, known professionally as Pat Sharp, is an English radio presenter, television presenter and DJ. He worked on the children's ITV programme Fun House, was one of the Sky Channel's VJs and presented the Coca-Cola Eurochart Top 50 and Nescafé UK Top 50.
Sharp worked as a presenter at BBC Radio 1 in 1982 and 1983, mixing holiday cover for other radio presenters[1] with a regular early Sunday morning slot and television appearances hosting BBC1's Top of the Pops.[2] He deputised for David Jensen on The Network Chart Show.[3] In the mid-1980s he became a DJ for Radio Mercury[4] and has also worked for the British Forces Broadcasting Service. For ten years, starting in 1987, Sharp was a DJ on Capital FM in London[5] followed by another 11 years at Heart, both in London and Cambridge.
In the late 1980s, Sharp teamed up with his Capital colleague Mick Brown as the duo Pat and Mick, to release the charity singles "Let's All Chant" and "I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet". Both songs made the Top 20 of the UK singles chart. The duo released five hit singles making the Top 75, raising more than a million pounds for charity.[6]
In 1987, he was voted as having the worst haircut (winning this accolade more than once) at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party awards, where he was also in the top three DJs. He was awarded the Sony Award in 1992 for best DJ.[7]
Between 1997 and 2004, Sharp presented Heart 106.2's weekday morning Time Tunnel show. Following this, Sharp was a presenter on the Century FM group of stations. In December 2010, Sharp joined Smooth Radio to host Weekend Breakfast.[8] He was officially appointed as the station's Weekend Breakfast presenter in January 2011.[9] In January 2013 Sharp became the station's weekday afternoon presenter after an overhaul of the Smooth schedule, replacing Carlos who moved to weeknights.[10]
Smooth Radio was acquired by Global Radio in 2013. Following a studio and business move to Global's headquarters in Leicester Square, Pat Sharp and David Jensen were then dropped from the schedules on 19 December 2013.[11] Sharp started broadcasting on the Breeze network New Year's Eve 2013.[12] He also formerly appeared regularly on Sam FM south coast.
In 2018, Sharp covered the mid-morning show on Southampton-based Hampshire Hit Radio for a week. He also appeared covering on Guildford-based Eagle Radio in recent years, before that station became Greatest Hits Radio.
Sharp fronts All The Hits, a weekly syndicated radio show produced by Blue Revolution,[13] which is broadcast on various stations around the world[citation needed].
From February 2019 to March 2023, Sharp presented a weekend radio show on Greatest Hits Radio,[14] as well as P8 Pop in Norway.[15]
He currently presents the mid-morning show on Global's Heart 80s radio station.