Adrian Chiles
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Adrian Chiles (born March 1967 in Birmingham, England) is a UK television and radio presenter.
His journalistic training and love of football has resulted in a career in two streams of broadcasting, fronting general and notably business programs such as Working Lunch; and sports programs like Match of the Day 2. His radio programme Chiles on Saturday for Radio 5 Live was awarded the sports category Gold Medal at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2002.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Birmingham to an English father and Croatian mother, a feature of his presentations is his heavy Birmingham accent - and he speaks fluent Serbo-Croat. Chiles started his education in Haybridge High School, before graduating with a degree in English Literature from the University of London. After university while waiting for his broken leg to heal from an amateur football incident, he applied for and failed both Civil Service exams, before being asked to apply for MI5 - he failed the second interview[1].
Chiles studied journalism at Cardiff and then worked, at one time, as a sports reporter for the News of the World, before joining the BBC (originally for work experience on Business Breakfast). He then became an assistant producer and, by 1993, was presenting Radio 4's Financial World Tonight.
This led to him fronting the newly created BBC Two business show Working Lunch, where he came to popular notice. He also began presenting and producing his own show Chiles on Saturday for Radio 5 Live, which was awarded the sports category Gold Medal at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2002. He has since created, scripted and fronted a variety of other programmes for the BBC, including for BBC2 So What Do You Do All Day, a look at the lives of the rich and famous; and in 2003 Asian Millionaires. For BBC One he has created and fronted Royal Millions, an investigation of the Queens’s finances, as well as reports for Panorama and various documentaries.
Chiles presented a spin off series of popular UK television show The Apprentice called The Apprentice: You're Fired where he interviewed the latest candidate to be fired from the main series. He was one of the main presenters of BBC One's new early-evening current affairs programme The One Show, and is expected to retain this position when the programme returns in 2007.
When the BBC won back the rights to Premiership football, Chiles became the host of Match of the Day 2 on Sundays. In the run-up to the 2006 World Cup, he was an integral part in BBC Three's African Cup of Nations coverage. Resultantly he was also seen presenting the BBC's highlights package from the 2006 FIFA World Cup highlights package. He was the subject of some amusement for apparently not knowing the difference between England and Britain on a BBC comedy sketch he featured in, screened during one of the matches.
[edit] Personal life
Chiles is married to a fellow Five Live presenter, Jane Garvey, They have two children.
Chiles is well known for his support of the West Bromwich Albion football club, and of the Croatian national team, through his Croatian mother.
