Name: Alan Gordon Partridge
Address: Norwich
D.O.B: 2 April 1954
Marriage: Married (Separated)
Spouse: Carol Partridge
Siblings: Ferando and Denise
Qualifications: Two A-Levels
Jobs:
Hospital Radio Disc Jockey
Sports Reporter (Norwich Radio)
Sports Reporter (On The Hour Radio 4)
Sports Reporter (The Day Today BBC 2)
Talk Show Host (Knowing Me Knowing You Radio 4)
Talk Show Host (Knowing Me Knowing You BBC 2)
Disc Jockey (Norwich Radio)
Achievements:
Sports Reporter of the Year 1988
TV Quick Man of the Moment 1994
Alan started on television in the TV series 'The Day Today'. He was as a sports presenter on a spoof/mock news programme. Then he came up with his chat show 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'. He adores ABBA, so he decided to name it after his favourite ABBA song. He also 'stole' part of the song which he now uses as his catchphrase - A-HA!! He interviewed a number of people but definately ended up offending them.
Steve Coogan's last series covers the life of his most famous character. Alan started off with a radio show and was then let rip on BBC. The current series "I'm Alan Partridge" covers the life of Alan after he finished the television show. He is living in a hotel (Travel Tavern) and his wife has also left him. His radio show on Radio Norwich, "Up with a Partridge", is on during the graveyard shift and Alan's life is pretty much at an all-time low. This fly-on-the-wall series is loved by the critics and hailed as Alan's best outing yet. However, his radio shows and "Knowing Me, Knowing You", were just as good, if not better.
The reason for the series 'I'm Alan Partridge' is that "There wasn't much more we could do with a chat-show," says Steve Coogan, the comic genius behind the loathsome Partridge. "But we knew there was a lot more we could do with Alan." Steve's alter ego, chat-show host Alan Partridge, has been banished to the horrors of regional radio in Norwich.
"He's a national broadcaster trapped in the body of a regional disc jockey. No operation can save him...at least not on the NHS," says Steve. "He lives at the Linton Travel Tavern, just off the M11. His musical tastes have expanded from Abba to Wings, 'the band the Beatles could have been'." Scruffy, quietly spoken and earnest in real life, Steve couldn't be further removed from the nefarious Alan Partidge. "He's the most enjoyable and the most fun to play of all my characters," says the comedian. "He might be getting sad but I think funny and sad are the two sides of the comedy coin. "But he doesn't always end up as the underdog. We make sure there's a happy ending for him," he adds.
