Dev (DJ)

Dev
Birth name Devin Joseph Jordan Griffin
Born (1984-12-23) 23 December 1984
Mill Hill, London, England
Show Dev
Station(s) BBC Radio 1
Time slot Saturday-Sunday 6:00AM-10:00AM
Style Pop
Country United Kingdom
Website Dev's Radio 1 Pages

Devin Joseph Jordan "Dev" Griffin (born 23 December 1984) is a British actor, radio presenter and DJ who is most commonly known for presenting the weekend breakfast show on BBC Radio 1. Warmed up for Calvin Harris on Friday 16th September on BBC radio one

Early life

Griffin was born on 23 December 1984 in Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom, to an Irish mother and a Jamaican father. He and his twin sister are the youngest of five siblings. He was educated at The Ravenscroft School and attended the after-school drama club at the Anna Scher Theatre School, where he met friend and future co-host Reggie Yates.

Career

Early career

Dev began his radio career in 2000 aged 16 on pirate station Freek FM, specializing in garage and jungle. Here he was known as DJ Devstar and presented with Reggie Yates, known as MC Nobizzi.[1] In 2002, whilst studying for his A Levels at The Ravenscroft School, Griffin landed a job co-presenting the children's interactive TV show Smile (credited as DJ Devstar) alongside his childhood friend Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton.[2] Six months into filming, he was approached by BBC Radio 1Xtra to present a Saturday afternoon show with his Smile co-presenter Reggie; the 'Reg and Dev' show was born. In 2003, Griffin left Smile to concentrate on his radio career.

Acting

In 2006 Griffin created and starred in children's sitcom The Crust [3] He will also star as himself in the upcoming Friday Download Movie, as a result of campaigning at length on air to get himself a role in a B Movie.

DJ

Dev was a member of Rebellious and has played in Ayia Napa and Faliraki at Ibis, Insomnia, Club Ice and Gas with Reggie Yates.[1] Griffin warmed up for Kanye West at the Hammersmith Apollo and Jurassic 5 at the London Astoria. He also played at the Radio 1 Teen Awards, and was asked to calm the crowd down after getting them too excited.

Radio

Dev joined BBC Radio 1Xtra at the launch in August 2002, where he presented "The Lowdown with Reg and Dev", on Saturday afternoons between 12PM and 3PM. In August 2004, The Lowdown with Reg and Dev moved to Saturday mornings between 9AM and 12PM, with Dev additionally doing the show by himself on Sunday mornings. Yates left 1Xtra in December 2004, so from January 2005, Dev presented both Saturday and Sunday morning shows by himself. Following further schedule changes in September 2005, Dev moved to Saturday afternoons again between 12PM and 2PM, where he stayed until 2007 when he became presenter of the weekday early morning show (not the Breakfast show) between 6AM and 8AM.

On 5 June 2009 the BBC announced that Dev was moving from his early morning show on BBC Radio 1Xtra across to BBC Radio 1 to take on the weekend breakfast show.[4] This show started in July 2009.

In a further shake up to their daytime programming, during the Summer of 2009, it was announced that Dev would be moving from Weekend Breakfast, to replace Greg James, as the host of the weekday Radio 1 0400 to 0630 AM show. His first show as permanent presenter was on 21 September 2009 and his last on Friday 28 March 2014. This can be downloaded from the unofficial Radio 1 Archive.

From Saturday 29 March 2014, Dev took over the weekend breakfast show originally hosted by Gemma Cairney. Cairney moved to Dev's previous time slot of Mon-Fri 4am-6:30am. Initially the show was from 0700-1000 AM, however following changes to the specialist schedule, the start time of the show was pushed back to 0600 AM, still finishing at 1000.

Dev made his debut presenting The Radio 1 Breakfast Show sitting in for Nick Grimshaw in February 2014, at short notice after Grimshaw called in sick, which Dev has done again since. He regularly covers both Scott Mills' show and Greg James' show when they are away.

Radio presenting

Radio Show Features

2009–2014

2014–present

"First Text of the Day" continued on the Weekend Breakfast Show, and new features were introduced:

Preceded by
Chappers and Dave		 Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show host
4 July 2009- 20 September 2009 		Succeeded by
Edith Bowman
Preceded by
Greg James		 Radio 1 Early Breakfast host
21 September 2009-28 March 2014 		Succeeded by
Gemma Cairney
Preceded by
Gemma Cairney		 Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show host
29 March 2014 - 		Succeeded by
Incumbent

Television presenting

Television acting

Personal life

Dev currently lives in South London where he is the DJ in Left Step Band.

References

  1. 1 2 "BBC - 1Xtra - DJ Biogs". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 1 February 2003.
  2. ↑ "Devin Griffin" (PDF). On It Artists. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  3. ↑ "The Crust". Darrall Macqueen. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  4. ↑ "Dev serves up weekend breakfast on Radio 1". BBC Press Office. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2009.

External links

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