Miles Jupp

Jupp was born in 1979 in London and spent his early childhood in West Hampstead.{{Cite web|url=https://www.https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrhUBy/|title=Miles Jupp|date=2023-11-16|website=Global Player|language=en|access-date=2023-11-16}} He is the son of a minister in the United Reformed Church. For much of his life, Jupp believed he was of Belgian stock, descended from 16th-century Huguenot immigrants. However, while creating a programme for BBC Radio 4 in 2015, he discovered his roots are actually in Sussex.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mt5c8 |title=Miles Jupp Is Insufficiently Belgian |first=Miles |last=Jupp |date= 25 March 2015 |publisher=BBC |access-date= 31 May 2015}}

Jupp attended three independent schools: The Hall School in Hampstead, North London; St George's School in Windsor; and Oakham School in Rutland. He studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/comedy/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-vicars-son-miles-jupp-6534030.html|title=Have you heard the one about the vicar's son, Miles Jupp?|work=Evening Standard|location=London|access-date=2018-09-07|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jan/28/miles-jupp-fibber-heat-review|title=Miles Jupp – review|last=Logan|first=Brian|date=2011-01-28|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-07}} While there, he performed with an improvised comedy troupe, the Improverts, and took part in pantomime productions with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company at Bedlam Theatre.{{cite web|url=http://www.bedlamtheatre.co.uk/users/492|title=Miles Jupp |publisher=Bedlam Theatre|website=bedlamtheatre.co.uk |access-date=7 May 2022}}

Jupp won So You Think You're Funny?, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2001 and was a Perrier Award Best Newcomer nominee in 2003 for his show Gentlemen Prefer Brogues. During his appearance on Celebrity Mastermind and Test Match Special in 2011, he claimed to have bluffed his way onto an England cricket tour to India as the cricket correspondent for both BBC Scotland and the Western Mail. He wrote Fibber in the Heat, a book about his adventures as a cricket journalist in India.{{cite book|last1=Jupp|first1=Miles|title=Fibber in the heat|date=2013|publisher=Ebury Press|isbn=978-0091943134}}

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Jupp played Archie, the Inventor in CBeebies' Balamory.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/jun/05/this-weeks-new-comedy|title=This week's new comedy|last=Kettle|first=James|date=2010-06-04|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-07}} He also had a role in the BBC Scotland comedy programme, Live Floor Show, where he played an eccentric, foul-mouthed comedian. In 2007, Jupp appeared fleetingly in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as a television weatherman who complained about a hot drought.

Jupp appeared in Series 3 and 4 of the political comedy, The Thick of It, as John Duggan, an incompetent press officer with a habit of making inappropriate comments.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/sep/29/thick-of-it-episode-four|title=The Thick of It – Lines of the Week|last=Heritage|first=Stuart|date=2012-09-29|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-05-12|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} He appeared in BBC Scotland's comedy Gary: Tank Commander as Captain Fanshaw. In 2009, he appeared briefly in the film Sherlock Holmes as a waiter. In the same year, he also appeared in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

In 2010, Jupp appeared on Mock the Week and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow. He performed as Nigel, a Church of England Lay Reader, in the BBC sitcom Rev. He also appeared as an under-secretary in the film Made in Dagenham (2010).

In January 2011, Jupp was a team member alongside Goldie and Phill Jupitus on the music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In May 2011, November 2011, and April 2012, he was a panellist on Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie To You? (BBC). On 22 August 2011, he was a lunchtime guest on Test Match Special, where he revealed a love of cricket and that he had previously worked with the Test Match Special team, who had no idea who he was. This became the basis of the book Fibber in the Heat.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9347256/Fibber-in-the-Heat-by-Miles-Jupp-review.html|title=Fibber in the Heat by Miles Jupp: review|first=Nicholas|last=Blincoe|date=26 June 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London}} {{subscription required|s}}

In October 2011, he again appeared in Mock the Week. Jupp had a cameo role in Johnny English Reborn in 2011 as an employee of MI7. He appeared in Series 4, Episode 4 of the comedy panel game Argumental, which aired on 24 November 2011. In 2012, he appeared on Mock the Week.

In January 2012, he won on Celebrity Mastermind. In February 2012, he appeared on BBC Let's Dance for Sport Relief and danced to The Prodigy's "Firestarter". In March 2012, he appeared in an episode of the televised 45th Anniversary series of BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute quiz show, alongside Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth and Liza Tarbuck. In July 2013, he appeared in an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on BBC Radio 4. He was featured in the 2014 World War II film, The Monuments Men, as British officer Major Fielding. Jupp has also appeared eight times on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown between 2014 and 2021.

In 2014, Jupp narrated the BBC television documentary series, Building Dream Homes. In 2016, he appeared in Grimsby as a police officer. On 27 April 2016, it was announced that Jupp would voice Blackberry in the forthcoming adaptation of Watership Down. In 2015, Jupp appeared as a team captain on The Really Welsh Christmas Quiz, alongside comedians Chris Corcoran, Elis James, and Omar Hamdi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tm80y|title=Christmas, The Really Welsh Quiz – BBC One|publisher=BBC|access-date=2017-12-27}}

In October 2016, Jupp appeared as Giles, the chairman of the residents' committee, in the sitcom from BBC Three Josh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p049tvpb|title=BBC Three – Josh, Series 2, Sex & Politics|publisher=BBC|access-date=7 February 2019}} In 2017, he appeared as Hardy in the film, Journey's End. He played auction house appraiser Winford Collins in the episode "The Tanganyika Green" of Father Brown. In 2018, Jupp made guest appearances as Basil, an incompetent lawyer, in the television drama by ITV The Durrells.

Jupp was the narrator of the radio show The Penny Dreadfuls Present...The Brothers Faversham by the Penny Dreadfuls, which was broadcast at the beginning of 2008 on BBC Radio 7.

In 2009, Jupp became the host of BBC Radio 7 satirical comedy series Newsjack and the host of BBC Radio Scotland comedy quiz show Swots. In February 2011, he appeared as a panellist on BBC Radio 4's panel show It's Your Round. Starting in February 2012, Jupp hosted three series of a BBC Radio 4 panel show It's Not What You Know (based on his suggestion for a round on It's Your Round.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036wvkd|title=BBC Radio 4 – It's Not What You Know|publisher=BBC|access-date=7 February 2019}}), before handing the job over to Joe Lycett.

In 2011, he starred in the self-penned BBC Radio 4 comedy, In and Out of the Kitchen, "the diary, written for publication, of a somewhat minor celebrity chef, Damien Trench".{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/radio/in_and_out_of_the_kitchen/press/|title=In And Out of the Kitchen|work=comedy.co.uk}} A second series followed in 2013, and continued with a third series in 2014. The show had a short-lived television version in 2015. A six-part fourth series aired on BBC Radio 4 in August and September 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b065z39r|title=In and Out of the Kitchen Series 4|publisher=BBC}}

He played the title character in BBC Radio 4 comedy Boswell's Lives (written by Jon Canter) which ran for four series, 2015–2018.

Jupp appeared as a contestant on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz in April 2012 (Series 77; Episode 1). In June 2015 he became the new presenter of the show, replacing Sandi Toksvig.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/r4seasonlaunch/comedy#heading-miles-jupp-announced-as-host-of-the-news-quiz|title=BBC – Comedy – Media Centre|publisher=BBC}} He chaired the show for 12 series, with his last appearance on 31 May 2019 (Series 99; Episode 8).{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/miles-jupp-news-quiz|title=BBC Media Centre – Miles Jupp signs off from The News Quiz|publisher=BBC}}

Jupp appears as retired Prime Minister Henry Tobin in Party's Over from 2019 to 2022 (12 episodes). In 2022, his four-episode sketch show, Whatever Next? With Miles Jupp was broadcast on Radio 4.{{cite web | url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/whatever-next-with-miles-jupp/ | title='Whatever Next?' with Miles Jupp - Radio 4 Sketch Show | website=British Comedy Guide }}

In March 2008, Jupp performed his third solo show, Everyday Rage and Dinner Party Chit Chat, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. He presented Live at the Gilded Balloon podcast for The Guardian newspaper's coverage of the 2008 and 2009 Edinburgh Fringe.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/milesjupp|title=Miles Jupp |website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2019-05-12}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/my-edinburgmiles-jupp-comedian-1776599.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/my-edinburgh-miles-jupp-comedian-1776599.html |archive-date=14 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=My Edinburgh: Miles Jupp, comedian|date=2009-08-24|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-05-12}} In 2019, Jupp played the role of actor David Tomlinson in The Life I Live, a one-man show at the Salisbury Playhouse and other theatres.

Jupp and his wife Rachel met while studying in Edinburgh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/598344/Miles-Jupp-actor-comedian-panellist-radio-4-quiz-host-interview|title=Miles ahead: Interview with actor, comedian and panellist Miles Jupp|first=Rachel|last=Corcoran|date=16 August 2015|website=Express.co.uk|access-date=7 February 2019}} They have five children.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/12086753/Miles-Jupp-Radio-4-comedy-needs-the-odd-kidney-punch.html|title=Miles Jupp: Radio 4 comedy needs the odd 'kidney punch'|first=Harry|last=Wallop|date=7 January 2016|access-date=7 February 2019|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London}} {{subscription required|s}} The family moved from Peckham, South London, to Monmouthshire, Wales.{{Cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/essentials/miles-jupp-im-white-middle-class-man-im-not-going-pretend-im-not/|title=Miles Jupp: I'm a white, middle-class man and I'm not going to pretend that I'm not|first=Alice|last=Jones|date=20 December 2016|website=inews.co.uk|access-date=7 February 2019}} {{subscription required|s}} In 2021, Jupp suffered a brain seizure, following which he had surgery to remove a brain tumour.{{Cite news |last=Maxwell |first=Dominic |date=2024-01-31 |title=Miles Jupp review – joyful show about near-death is his best yet |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/miles-jupp-rcomedy-eview-joyful-show-about-near-death-is-his-best-yet-3b878w27l |access-date=2024-01-31 |language=en |issn=0140-0460}} {{subscription required|s}}

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• Miles Jupp entry at Who's Who

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