Frank Skinner is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor. Along with David Baddiel, he provided vocals and wrote the lyric for \”Three Lions\”, the official song to mark the England football team’s participation in the 1996 European Championships. Since 2009 he has hosted The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, broadcast live on Saturdays.
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Frank Skinner is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was awarded the Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. Since 2009 he has hosted The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, broadcast live on Saturdays and later released as a podcast. Along with David Baddiel, he provided vocals and wrote the lyric for \”Three Lions\”, the official song to mark the England football team’s participation in the 1996 European Championships. He reprised his role to release two subsequent versions of the song for the England team’s involvement in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and 2010 World Cup. The 1996 version is the only song ever to have four separate stints at number one in the UK singles chart with the same artists, the most recent coming in July 2018 following England reaching the semi-finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cups. Skinner won the 1991 Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, beating Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard. In 2001, he released his autobiography, Frank Skinner, which became a bestseller.
In 1998, he took part in a documentary titled A Bit of Elvis: The Little Bit of Frank Skinner that paid tribute to his late father, who played for Spennymoor United before the Second World War. He took the stage name Frank Skinner when the actors’ union Equity told him there was already a singer from Burnley on their books called Chris Collins. Despite his given first name of Christopher, his parents called him by his middle name Graham; all his friends referred to him, and some still do, as Chris. He has two older brothers, Keith and Terrence, and an older sister, Nora. Skinner is a high-profile recovering alcoholic. He suffered a bout of influenza in September 1986 that made him give up drinking, and he remains ahigh-profile Recovering Alcoholic. He is married to his long-term partner, former BBC Radio 4 presenter and TV presenter, Fiona Curnow. The couple have two children, a son, a daughter and a stepson.
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