Allan Lake

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name = Allan Lake
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birth_place = Isle of Wight, England
occupation = Radio Presenter

Allan Lake (born November 13, 1983 in Isle of Wight) is an English disc jockey, currently working at Absolute Radio.

Career

Allan's radio career started at Isle of Wight Radio, working as the teaboy on the Saturday sports show and as producer for the station's veteran phone-in presenter Alex Dyke. This led to his own Saturday evening show, but he was let go by the station after broadcasting a controversial feature named "Bin Laden reads the Bible". After this, he moved to neighbouring station Power FM, before leaving the south coast for Hull to present Late Night Lake at Viking FM. He also had a less than 28 day stint on Hull's Alternative Station 106.8 The Noise which closed after complaints to ofcom the station was shut down, after a feature where listeners had to guess what the noise was. The noise was later revealed to be "a woman spitting after sucking a mans willie". [cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=3177344|title=The Noise shut down|publisher=Digital Spy] Whilst working at Galaxy Manchester he made national headlines after comments he made about Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus. [cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13825933_method=full_siteid=89488_headline=--WE-CAN-T-LET-THAT-FAT-BITCH-BE-NO-1-AGAIN--name_page.html|title=`WE CAN'T LET THAT FAT BITCH BE NO 1 AGAIN'|date=2004-01-17|publisher=The Daily Record] [cite web|url=http://www.allanlake.com/AllanLakeInterviewPage1.pdf|title= One to One Interview|date=20th - 26th December 2006 - Issue 767|publisher=The Radio Magazine] [cite web|url=http://www.allanlake.com/AllanLakeInterviewPage2.pdf|title= One to One Interview (Page 2)|date=20th - 26th December 2006 - Issue 767|publisher=The Radio Magazine]

After a stint at Liverpool's Juice FM, he move to London and GCap Media's Capital Disney for an evening show named "In On The Lake" from January 2005 to August 2006.After his successful stint at Capital Disney Allan was promoted to the Breakfast show on sister station Core. After eight months, the show ended, after the station's owners decided to switch the station to a non-stop music format. During his time in London, Allan was also a regular cover presenter for Capital 95.8. After guesting on Generation Mix, he has covered shows for GCap's Coast 96.3 and Red Dragon FM, where he was controversial fired and rehired, after getting listeners to call the programme controller to try and persuade him to hire him. [cite web|url=http://www.reddragonfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=412968&spid=|title=Evening presenter Allan Lake returns to Red Dragon.|publisher=Red Dragon FM]

During his time on the Evening show, Allan caused Red Dragon to have its building lease reviewed after he ordered a live cow to be delivered to the studios and also revealed CCTV footage of 2 staff members having sex on the stations pool table. He also had an on air verbal fight with Welsh Big Brother housemate Laura, after Allan accused her of being racist towards the English.

Allan left his evening show on Red Dragon on 13th March 2008 after his show was to be replaced by GCap networked evening show Music Control, and left the station on 16th March after his last Sunday "Takeover" show. After leaving Red Dragon, he covered on Xfm South Wales and Oxford's FM 107.9, before joining Invicta FM. [cite web|url=http://www.invictafm.co.uk/article.asp?id=680421|title=Allan Lake at Invicta FM|publisher=Invicta FM] Allan has since left Invicta FM, due to networked shows replacing his Sunday show, and has recently covered at Kerrang Radio and Nation Radio. Allan then went to Q Radio, presenting Saturday 10am to 1pm, and currently is at Absolute Radio, previously known as Virgin Radio. He joined on 27th September 2008 and will present early mornings. [cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/02/commercialradio.radio|title=Virgin Radio to become Absolute|publisher=John Plunkett, Media Guardian]

The Team

Allan has been accompanied by a team of radio associates, who have joined him on his show. Long-term friend Lee Elliott, known as Big Ginger Lee, has often been heard on air with Allan on various stations. Whilst at Capital Disney, Allan was joined by a series of other people who made regular appearances. Adam Morris, known on air as The General joined him as teaboy at Capital Disney, eventually taking the reins of the show when Allan left. Allan was also joined by co-host Chloe, Radio DJs Pat Sharp and Mark Fox, engineer Robin and jingle maker Tyler. On Core, newsreader Ben Evans also joined, with other Core DJs regularly featuring.

Will Chambers, programme manager of Capital Disney and Bern Leckie, programme manager of Core, have both appeared on their respective stations, with Will often joining Allan for Late Night Lake on Core as producer.

References

External links

* [http://www.allanlake.com AllanLake.com] Official Fansite of AllanLake
* [http://www.myspace.com/allanlake MySpace.com/AllanLake] Official MySpace
* [http://www.reddragonfm.co.uk Red Dragon Website]