Paul Hawksbee

{{Short description|British sports radio presenter and comedy writer}}

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{{BLP sources|date=August 2010}}

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Paul Hawksbee (born 1 October 1961) is an English sports radio presenter and comedy writer. He has presented the Hawksbee and Jacobs show alongside Andy Jacobs on talkSPORT since the station's inception in 2000.

He also contributed to the writing of ITV's Harry Hill's TV Burp,{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/harry_hills_tv_burp/|title=Harry Hill's TV Burp – ITV Comedy|website=British Comedy Guide }} Al Murray's Happy Hour, and the original Spitting Image.

Hawksbee co-founded the weekly football magazine 90 Minutes.{{cite web|url=http://www.prweek.com/uk/News/EmailThisArticle/101412/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308181419/http://www.prweek.com/uk/News/EmailThisArticle/101412/|archivedate=8 March 2012|title=Hawksbee and Singleton boost Switch2 muscle|last=Armstrong|first=Stephen|date=5 May 2000|work=PRWeek|accessdate=3 August 2010}}

Personal life

Hawksbee is a Tottenham Hotspur fan.{{cite web |title=Patron: Paul Hawksbee |url=https://www.sportingmemoriesnetwork.com/FAQs/patron-paul-hawksbee |website=Sporting Memories Network |accessdate=25 July 2019}}

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Category:1961 births

Category:British radio personalities

Category:Living people

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