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Profile of David Baddiel
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David Baddiel |
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28th May 1964 |
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Troy, New York, USA |
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David Baddiel (born May 28, 1964) is a British comedian, novelist and television presenter. He read English at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, and graduated with a double first.
He first became famous with the Mary Whitehouse Experience, a radio series which he moved to television. With Rob Newman from the same show he moved on to the Newman and Baddiel in Pieces series, which ran in 1993. After this he featured in Fantasy Football League with Frank Skinner, and later Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned. The duo also twice topped the UK singles chart with the football anthem Three Lions. An attempt at a self-starring sitcom, Baddiel's Syndrome, shown on BSkyB, was a critical and ratings failure.
He has also written three novels: Time For Bed, Whatever Love Means and The Secret Purposes.
He has a daughter, Dolly, born in 2001, with his girlfriend, Morwenna Banks. Baddiel is Jewish, his mother born in Nazi Germany, a Swastika appearing on her birth certificate. An episode of the BBC's genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? investigated his heritage in some detail, but failed to disprove his theory that his mother had been secretly adopted from another Jewish family who had no hope of escaping (her parents had been married but childless for a decade before she was born). David suffers from insomnia.
His book The Secret Purposes is based in part on the internment of his father on the Isle of Man during the Second World War.
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