Simon O'Brien (presenter)
- Simon O'Brien (presenter)
Infobox actor
name = Simon O'Brien
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1965|6|19|df=y
location = Garston, Liverpool
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website = http://www.simonobrien.com
notable role = Damon Grant in "Brookside"
Simon O'Brien (19 June 1965, Garston, Liverpool) is a British television actor and radio presenter as well as a successful property developer.
He came to prominence as the character Damon Grant in "Brookside", a role he played from the soap's launch in 1982 until 1987, when his character was killed off in York at the end of the 'soap bubble' "Damon and Debbie".
He acted in the UK version of "Fraggle Rock" from 1987 until 1988 as BJ the lighthouse keeper. He also presented the 'Rough Guide' travel programmes for a time with Magenta Devine.
In the 1990s, after a spell presenting BBC football show "Standing Room Only", he left show business and, with Alan Bate, set up Liverpool Cycle Centre, a combination of vegetarian café, cycle shop, cycle parking and other resources relevant to his enthusiasm for cycling. O'Brien then moved into property development. He has since returned to acting and presenting, with a short-lived football quizshow on ITV Digital, co-presenting the BBC One show "To Buy or Not to Buy", as well as playing caretaker Wally Scott in "Grange Hill" since 2003.
He is an Everton F.C. fan and, in the past, has been the club's Public Address announcer.
He presented BBC Radio Merseyside's Breakfast show with Lucinda Moore from September 2006 until 25 June 2007, when he resigned after the accidental broadcast of a package which he had prepared of him saying "fuck the government, fuck the planners".
As of January 2008, O'Brien is returning to the airwaves as the co-host of the breakfast show on City Talk 105.9 in his home city.
External links
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* [http://www.simonobrien.com/ Official website]
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