Richard Nauyokas
{{Short description|British television personality (born 1962)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Third-party|date=March 2025}}
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Richard Carlton Nauyokas (born 9 December 1962){{Cite web |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/CtLtj72gfgmSsgVM0D7OH0lj8QE/appointments |title=Companies House |access-date=3 March 2017 |archive-date=23 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923151701/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/CtLtj72gfgmSsgVM0D7OH0lj8QE/appointments |url-status=live }} is a British television personality, who between 2002 and 2006 appeared as a military instructor in several United Kingdom reality television series which re-created British National Service military training from the 1950s. A former professional soldier with the British Army, he now runs a motivational training consultancy.
Early life and military career
Nauyokas was born and brought up in Grantham, in the county of Lincolnshire. His father was a United States Air Force airman based at RAF Alconbury, and his mother was English from Grantham. After his father had returned to the United States.Interview with Richard Nauyokas, 'Isle of Man TV', November 2017. Published on Youtube 7 November 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxzpABiJtQ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404081409/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxzpABiJtQ |date=4 April 2023 }} He received his early formal education at Spitalgate (Church of England) Primary School, and The Boys' Central School in Grantham, where his attendance was poor.Nauyokas, Richard - Nasty Nookie not all bad', Grantham Matters website, 29 January 2013. http://www.granthammatters.co.uk/nauyokas-richard-vvv/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215123231/http://www.granthammatters.co.uk/nauyokas-richard-vvv/ |date=15 December 2018 }} After 22 years of military service during which time he undertook duty as a driver, radio operator, Physical Training Instructor and Military Training Instructor, serving in Kosovo, Bosnia and Germany, he retired from the British Army in 2001 with the senior non-commissioned rank of Warrant Officer Class 2 (Squadron Sergeant Major).{{Cite web | url=http://www.channelten.co.uk/gos/viewtopic.php?t=300 | title=MEET THE MILITARY STAFF… - Channel Ten | access-date=22 November 2016 | archive-date=23 November 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123053623/http://www.channelten.co.uk/gos/viewtopic.php?t=300 | url-status=live }}
Nauyokas subsequently served as a Royal Air Force reservist non-commissioned officer, including a period on the staff at RAF College Cranwell in 2012.'Grimsby Town National Citizen Service 2012', published on Youtube 10 November 2012. Interview with Nauyokas at 9.31 mins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx1UI8lh9rQ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404081408/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx1UI8lh9rQ |date=4 April 2023 }}
Television career
After retiring from the Army he attempted to commence a career as an actor. After repeated auditions for parts with little success he unsuccessfully applied for the role of Sergeant-Major in the 2002 in a new ITV historical military reality television series Lads Army, but was given instead the role of one of the corporals in charge of one of the two sections in the programme,{{cite web |url=http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/821358.good_show_bad_lads/ |title=Good show Bad Lads |work=Gazette and Herald |date=6 July 2006 |access-date=15 June 2013 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062831/http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/821358.good_show_bad_lads/ |url-status=live }} after himself receiving training as a 1950s British Army non-commissioned officer.{{Cite episode
| title = Episode 1.1
| url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829820/
| series = Lads Army
| network = ITV
| station = ITV1
| date = 31 July 2002
| series-no = 1
| number = 1
| language = en
}} He joined the show as corporal in charge of 1 Section, a role he continued to play during the subsequent Bad Lads Army series in 2004, 2005 and 2006 alongside Joe Murray.{{cite web
|title = Lads Army Rogues Gallery
|url = http://www.ladsarmy.info/rollcall/officers.asp
|access-date = 31 December 2010
|archive-date = 9 June 2011
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110609053055/http://www.ladsarmy.info/rollcall/officers.asp
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Nauyokas has also appeared on television as a fitness instructor in the reality television show "There's Something About Miriam" (2004){{cite web
|title = There's Something About Miriam
|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402707/fullcredits#cast
|work = The Internet Movie Database
|access-date = 31 December 2010
|archive-date = 10 February 2009
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090210015206/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402707/fullcredits#cast
|url-status = live
}} and as an interviewee in "Greatest Ever 80s Movies" (2008).{{cite web
|title = Greatest Ever 80s Movies
|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1164732/fullcredits#cast
|work = The Internet Movie Database
|access-date = 31 December 2010
|archive-date = 30 January 2008
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080130042345/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1164732/fullcredits#cast
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Film career
In 2021, Nauyokas appeared in the World War I film The War Below The film is a historical drama, set in 1917, about a group of miners who are tasked with tunnelling beneath no man's land, to set explosives below the German front line in an effort to break the stalemate of the Battle of Messines. (1917). Nauyokas appears alongside Tom Goodman-Hill and Andrew Scarborough.
Business career
In 2005 Nauyokas set up 'Not All Bad, Ltd.', a company based in Bourne, Lincolnshire, providing motivational and Team building physical training courses for a variety of clientele, ranging from private individuals to corporate entities, and working with H.M. Prison Service in the rehabilitation of young offenders and prison inmates.Website of 'Not All Bad, Ltd.' (2018). https://www.notallbad.co.uk/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214100943/http://www.notallbad.co.uk/ |date=14 December 2018 }}Nauyokas directing the 'Snickers Walnut Challenge Physical Endurance trial' video (2010), uploaded on to Youtube 23 March 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQUacNwGAU {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522045356/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQUacNwGAU |date=22 May 2023 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1574155|Richard Nauyokas}}
- [http://www.notallbad.co.uk Not All Bad website]
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Category:Businesspeople from Lincolnshire
Category:English male television actors
Category:English people of American descent
Category:People from Billingborough