Richard Coles
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Shows
Celebrity Masterchef (participant)
Countdown (guest host)
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (participant)
Stand Up and Deliver (participant)
Strictly Come Dancing (participant)
Biography
Sometime session musician (keyboards and woodwind) who was hired to play on tour with Bronski Beat and ended up forming a breakaway duo, the Communards, with Jimmy Somerville. A couple of years of international success followed (their Hi-NRG cover of "Don't Leave Me This Way" was the UK's top-selling single of 1986) before they split up, after which Coles pursued parallel, and subsequently entwined, careers as a broadcaster and Church of England vicar. Nowadays a best-selling crime fiction author.