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Edmondson currently presents the weekday afternoon show on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1pm to 3:30pm with Mollie King on Radio 1. In 2016, he co-presented The Xtra Factor alongside Rylan Clark on ITV2.[2]
Career
Television
Edmondson was a CBBC continuity presenter from 2004 to 2006, prior to which, in 2002, he was a roving reporter for Channel 4's Richard & Judy.[3]
In November 2016, Edmondson provided the voiceover for the adverts for Now That's What I Call Music! 95, when regular voiceover Mark Goodier suffered a stroke.
On 8 January 2010, Edmondson joined BBC Radio 1, and appeared every Friday on Fearne Cotton's show to report on entertainment news and showbiz gossip. His first appearance on Cotton's programme was on 15 January 2010.[14]
Edmondson began presenting the Sunday 10am to 1pm slot on BBC Radio 1 on 14 March 2010, filling in for regular presenter Sara Cox while she was on maternity leave.[15]
Edmondson started a weekly show on BBC Radio 1 on 6 April 2011 replacing Huw Stephens from 9pm to 10pm on Wednesdays.[16] However, on 19 December 2012, he presented his last Wednesday night show before moving to weekends in January 2013, taking over Vernon Kay's Saturday 10am – 1pm slot and Sara Cox's Sunday 10am – 1pm slot.
On 10 April 2018, it was announced that Edmondson and Mollie King would co-present a new afternoon show for BBC Radio 1 beginning in June on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.[17] In 2024, it was announced that they would be moving to weekdays (except Fridays) on Radio 1 in July.
In 2018, Edmondson hosted a BBC radio podcast programme in which he and his episode co-hosts, beginning with Amelia Dimoldenberg and Nina Nesbitt, deliberately vandalised Wikipedia to see how long the vandalism would last.[18]
Edmondson is originally from Portsmouth and attended St Edmund's Catholic School and Havant College. He now lives in Lewisham, south-east London. His elder sister Kate Arnell is also a television presenter. In May 2012, Edmondson became engaged to his long-term girlfriend Bryony Emmett, and the pair married in 2013.[21] In September 2016, Edmondson missed an episode of The Xtra Factor Live. During the show, it was announced that Bryony had gone into labour, and at the end of the show it was announced that she had given birth to a girl. In January 2022, Bryony gave a birth to a second girl. [22]
Edmondson has been diagnosed with cyclothymia, a form of depression.[23] In 2020, Edmondson revealed in a Twitter thread that his father was an alcoholic with bipolar disorder who killed himself when Edmondson was 22.[24] Edmondson wrote a song about it, "Your Car", with the vocals of Aymee Weir.[25]
