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Reggie Yates
British actor and media personality (born 1983) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Reginald Yates (born 31 May 1983) is a British television presenter, actor, writer and director with a career spanning three decades on screen as an actor, television presenter and radio DJ. Yates played Leo Jones in Doctor Who and has worked at the BBC in radio and television–presenting various shows for BBC Radio 1 for a decade as well as hosting the BBC One singing show The Voice UK, hosting the first two series with Holly Willoughby.
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Born | Reginald Yates[1] (1983-05-31) 31 May 1983 (age 41)[2] London, England |
Occupation(s) | Writer, director, documentary filmmaker, actor, television presenter, DJ |
Television | Presenting:
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Website | reggieyates |
Yates co-presented the prime-time BBC One game show Prized Apart, alongside Emma Willis, The ITV2 reality show Release the Hounds from 2013 until 2017 and was also the presenter of the BBC Three documentary series Reggie Yates' Extreme Russia, Extreme South Africa and Extreme UK as well as featuring as lead voice actor for the CBeebies animated cartoon series Rastamouse.[3]
In 2021, Yates released his first feature film as writer/director, Pirates.