Jacob John "Jake" Humphrey (born ( 1978-10-07 October 7, 1978) is a British television presenter and journalist, best known to present BBC Sport coverage on Formula One from 2009 to 2012. He is the main presenter of the football coverage of BT Sport and Director of Whisper Films.
Humphrey's career on television began after leaving school. His first job for the BBC was for their CBBC children's channel, although the switch to the sport from 2006 saw him host the youngest of their soccer show Football Focus , and then Today's Match and Final Score . While continuing as a guest presenter at the event, he also went on to present BBC coverage of international football.
Outside of football, he also presents BBC coverage of the Commonwealth Games and Summer Olympics, and American Football in the Super Bowl and NFL International Series. He started presenting Formula One after the BBC regained the rights of ITV.
Humphrey is also the host of BBC Sport Personality of the Year, and there have been guests who host non-sports programs such as The One Show for BBC One and This Week for ITV.
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Born in Peterborough, in the area of ​​Cambridgeshire, England to Liz, a retired teacher and Rex, a retired chief executive from Age Concern Norfolk. He has a sister, Rachel and brother, Thomas. The family moved to Norwich, Norfolk when Humphrey was nine and attended Earl Framingham High School and Sixth Form at Hewett School, Norwich. While at school he also works as a newspaper worker and becomes interested in the media. For two years, Humphrey became the target of bullying from other students and moved to another school to solve the problem. When he was 16, Humphrey got a job at McDonald's and was fired for poor communication skills. Then he worked in a servant position.
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Careers
Initial career
After failing Level A, while learning to resit the following year he took work experience work at ITV East of England, an Anglia Television contractor. After passing A Levels the following summer, he joined Anglia on a full-time as a runner, followed by a move to Rapture TV where he presented the original incarnation of G @ mers. Humphrey began performing at CBBC as a host assistant at Against All Odds and later as the main host of Rule The School in 2001. He later became the main presenter of Against All Odds and studio presenter for CBBC the following year.
Kids TV
In late 2002, he hosted CBBC's coverage of Fame Academy , along with Holly Willoughby. They also presented the celebrity 2003 edition for Comic Relief. Humphrey also presented the 2005 Comic Relief of Fame Academy, with Sophie McDonnell and Caroline Flack respectively. Humphrey also presents the CBBC Against All Odds event, a TV show featuring real-life emergency reconstruction and providing First Aid advice to viewers.
Starting in 2004, Humphrey began hosting the The Saturday Show and BAMZOOKi , but this role ended in 2005 and 2006 respectively. He also presented Newsround from 2005 to 2008. He was named the sports sports reader Sportsround in September 2005, starting a series of sports-related roles. Also he is the presenter on Gimme a Break in the first series.
Sports presentations
BBC Sport
Humphrey began appearing as a match reporter with BBC Radio 5 Live in 2005 and then presented coverage of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia.
He first hosted Football Focus in November 2006, covering for ordinary host Manish Bhasin who was presenting coverage from Ashes 2006. He then closed for Bhasin again during the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Humphrey has become host Final Score when regular presenter Ray Stubbs can not do it. She first hosted Match of the Day for the FA Women's Cup final in May 2007, and then presented coverage of the 2007 Women's World Cup.
In October 2007, he hosted the first BBC American Football, after which Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLIII were presented live. Humphrey has also presented major BBC events for the 2008 African Nations Cup and he presented the FA Women's Cup final in 2008, Women's Cup Final Final on the BBC due to the expiry of the FA contract. Humphrey also hosted an afternoon show at the Olympics for the BBC in Beijing in 2008, and co-hosted the BBC Sports Personality of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 with Gary Lineker and Sue Barker.
In 2009, he became the anchor for BBC One coverage. It is widely regarded as a very successful switch for Humphrey, with her hero Des Lynam calling it the best sports announcer of 2009 in his annual 'Desmonds' award in December 2009.
In June 2012, he also presented BBC coverage on the start of the Euro with Germany vs Portugal from Lviv in Ukraine with Alan Shearer.
In July and August 2012, Humphrey presented coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics. He installed slots on BBC One and BBC Three. He also presents coverage of the Velodrome with Chris Boardman and Mark Cavendish.
BT Sport
The 2013-14 football season sees the start of Humphrey's live coverage of over 38 matches as the face of the Premier League BT Sport program. As well as hosting live coverage of Premier League matches, Humphrey will also be involved with other new channel soccer programs, working to shape the new football programming style.
In 2015 has hosted Barclays Premier League football matches exclusively from Bar Sport for the last two seasons. Jake will continue to host the Premier League and FA Cup coverage and expand his role by entering exclusively the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League direct matches.
Other presentations
Humphrey presents 2011 & amp; Calculate-Calculate-Count-2012 Program Live New Year . He also appeared on BBC One HD 'BBC One Never Looked So Good' Ad, kicked the disco ball and smiled into the camera. Humphrey also briefly hosted coverage of the 2011 Royal Wedding of a 66-year-old Lancaster bomber but was cut off due to technical difficulties with his audio.
He serves Free Speech , which begins on BBC Three on March 7, 2012. From October 23, 2012, he has hosted The One Show as a stand-in presenter. He also hosted the BBC's Beat The Pack daytime show and has featured sports bulletin boards on 'BBC News Channel .
On May 31, 2013, Humphrey handed ITVs This Morning for the first time with Amanda Byram. On November 21, 2014, he hosted the second episode, with Ruth Langsford. Humphrey was featured on BBC Radio 2 for the first time last night on October 10, 2014.
Humphery also attended F1 Live London on Sky Sports F1 and YouTube on July 12, 2017.
Charity work
Humphrey is the protector of Charity Break.
Personal life
He lived in Richmond in southwest London, and married his childhood sweetheart, Harriet, at a ceremony in his hometown outside Norwich in August 2007. On September 11, 2012 he announced via Twitter that Harriet was expecting their first child. Their daughter, Florence Aurelia Alice Humphrey, was born on March 20, 2013. Since, she has a second child, Sebastian Alexander James was born on August 1, 2015. Harriet works as one of the directors and managers of Whisper Film production.
He is a supporter of his local football team, Norwich City.
Humphrey is color blind - a fact that he reveals to much excitement on the BBC Radio 5 Live Fighting Talk sports comedy show, when talking about automatic door locks on train toilets. He does not know when the light that appears when the door is locked has changed from green to red.
He received the Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of East Anglia in July 2012.
References
External links
- Official website
- Jake Humphrey on IMDb
- Jake Humphrey on the BBC
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