Alan Carr

Alan Carr is an English comedian, broadcaster, writer and television personality. Born in Weymouth, Dorset, in 1976 and raised mainly in Northampton, he studied drama and theatre at Middlesex University and worked in a call centre while building a stand-up career on the Manchester comedy circuit. He won the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2001. Television made him widely known, first as co-host of The Friday Night Project and then as host of the award-winning chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which ran for sixteen series. He also hosted Going Out with Alan Carr on BBC Radio 2, toured with several stand-up shows, and published the autobiography Look Who It Is! in 2008. Later work includes judging RuPaul's Drag Race UK and winning the first series of The Celebrity Traitors in 2025. He has won three British Comedy Awards, three National Television Awards and two BAFTA TV Awards.