Dev (DJ)

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Dev Griffin
Born
Devin Joseph Jordan Griffin

(1984-12-23) 23 December 1984 (age 39)
Mill Hill, London, England
Education The Ravenscroft School
Occupation(s) DJ
Actor
Years active2002–present
Career
ShowDev Griffin
Station Heart
Time slotWeekdays, 7pm –10pm Saturday 12pm –4pm
CountryUnited Kingdom

Devin Joseph Jordan Griffin (born 23 December 1984) is a British radio presenter, DJ and actor, who is most commonly known for presenting Heart's evening show since January 2022 and Heart's Feel Good Weekend since January 2021. He is also known for his former weekend afternoon shows on BBC Radio 1.

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Early and personal life

Griffin was born on 23 December 1984 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom, to an Irish mother and a Jamaican father. He and his twin sister are the youngest of four siblings. He was educated at The Ravenscroft School in Barnet, 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

Griffin began his radio career in 2000, aged 16 on pirate radio station Freek FM, specialising in garage and jungle. Here he was known as DJ Devstar and presented with Yates (who used the moniker 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 Yates, Fearne Cotton and Nev the Bear. Six months into filming, he was approached by BBC Radio 1Xtra to present a Saturday afternoon show with Yates. In 2003, Griffin left Smile to concentrate on his radio career.

Acting

In 2006, Griffin created and starred in children's sitcom The Crust . [2] He has starred as himself in Friday Download: The Movie , as a result of campaigning at length on air to get himself a role in a B movie.

DJ

Griffin was a member of the Rebellious music collective and played in venues at Ayia Napa and Faliraki. [1] He opened for Kanye West at the Hammersmith Apollo and Jurassic 5 at the London Astoria. He also played at the Radio 1 Teen Awards.

Radio

Griffin joined BBC Radio 1Xtra at the launch in August 2002, where he and Yates presented The Lowdown with Reg and Dev on Saturday afternoons. In August 2004, the show moved to Saturday mornings, with Griffin additionally doing the show by himself on Sunday mornings. Yates left 1Xtra in December 2004, leaving Griffin to present both Saturday and Sunday morning shows by himself. Following further schedule changes in September 2005, Griffin moved to Saturday afternoons where he stayed until 2007, when he became presenter of the weekday early morning show.

In July 2009, he moved to BBC Radio 1 to take on the weekend breakfast show. [3] In September, he moved from the weekend slot to replace Greg James as host of the weekday early breakfast show, between 4am and 6:30am. In March 2014, he left the weekday slot and returned to the weekend breakfast show, taking over from Gemma Cairney. He regularly presented The Radio 1 Breakfast Show (sitting in for Nick Grimshaw), the Scott Mills show and the Greg James show as a relief presenter.

In 2018, he and Alice Levine began hosting their own show, Dev & Alice, in the weekend breakfast slot. The duo were moved to the weekend afternoon show the same year. On 9 August 2020 the final show aired, following the announcement of Levine's departure from Radio 1.

In November 2020, BBC Radio 1 announced major scheduling changes for the end of 2020 and 2021. Griffin, along with Huw Stephens and Phil Taggart would not be rejoining the lineup in 2021. The latter two are not leaving the BBC all together, and are instead returning to their former shows on BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio Ulster respectively. Instead, Dev departed the BBC, and joined Heart after 18 years with the corporation. His last show was 13:00 – 16:00 on 20 December 2020. [4] He made his Heart debut on Saturday 2 January 2021, when he launched his brand new show 12:00-16:00.

As of January 2022, Dev presents Heart's Evening Show from 7-10pm Monday to Thursday, replacing Mark Wright, who has moved back to weekends.

Television

In 2016, Griffin and Alice Levine competed in a BBC Bargain Hunt Children in Need special. They took on Radio 4's Nick Robinson and Aasmah Mir. Griffin reached the final of the 2017 series of Celebrity Masterchef , alongside Ulrika Jonsson and eventual winner, Angellica Bell. Griffin participated in the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional dancer Dianne Buswell. They became the third Strictly couple to leave the show after losing a dance-off to Emma Weymouth and Aljaž Skorjanec. His elimination caused controversy and complaints from the viewers as his voting lines weren't even open in that week's public vote which meant that the elimination was 'fixed'. In April 2019, Griffin took part in the first series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins . In October 2020, Dev participated in a celebrity edition of The Chase . In July 2023 Griffin was the subject of an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? , where he discovered that a maternal great-uncle had participated in the Easter Rising at Dublin City Hall.

Radio presenting

Heart’s Evening Show 7-10pm, January 2022 – Present (Heart)

Preceded by Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show host
4 July 2009- 20 September 2009		Succeeded by
Preceded by Radio 1 Early Breakfast host
21 September 2009-28 March 2014		Succeeded by
Preceded by Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show host
29 March 2014 – 11 March 2018		Succeeded by
Dev and Alice Levine

Television presenting

Television acting

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References

  1. 1 2 "BBC – 1Xtra – DJ Biogs". BBC. Archived from the original on 1 February 2003.
  2. ↑ "The Crust". Darrall Macqueen. 17 May 2009. Archived from the original on 18 August 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  3. ↑ "Dev serves up weekend breakfast on Radio 1". BBC Press Office. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
  4. ↑ @dev_101 (5 November 2020). "It's been an absolute privilege and a pleasure to waffle and entertain so many listeners but I'm ready for some new…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ "Crucial Tales – I Bring You Frankincense – Full Cast & Crew". IMDb . Retrieved 3 November 2019.
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