Jonathan Gould (presenter)
Jonathan Michael Gould (born 1961 in
Education
Gould attended Epsom College, where he was active in school plays and captained the college cricket team.[3] He left in 1979 with A-Levels in Economics, History and English, which he himself says were "highly unsatisfactory", but nonetheless obtained a place at Durham University.[3] He was a member of the Hatfield College rugby team and the Durham University Sensible Thespians (DUST) sketch group, which would later be renamed the Durham Revue.[4]
Career
Early career
After finishing drama school, Gould embarked on a career as an actor and landed a small role in the 1984 fantasy film and infamous Box-office bomb Sheena, but his appearance was cut in the editing process.[3] He spent the next decade working various restaurant jobs, plus stints as a motorcycle dispatch rider and house painter, with his most significant acting gig being the lead in a production of Macbeth that went on a 3-month tour of Japan.[3]
In September 1994 Gould made the move into presenting after an introduction arranged by school friend
MLB on Five
He started presenting
Gould is a passionate fan of the
Gould's approach to the sport was that of passionate supporter, constantly learning from and bouncing opinions off his co-presenters on the Five TV show. These included Todd Macklin, Josh Chetwynd, David Lengel and Mike Carlson, the channel's regular NFL analyst. He made liberal use of catchphrases, such as "Greetings fellow baseball nuts!" and "It's the last chance saloon!".
Gould is a fan of Chelsea F.C. and rarely missed an opportunity to use them as an analogy in his baseball presenting. He also included a section on the show regarding fantasy baseball. His nickname on Five's baseball coverage was Gouldfish, which refers to his goldfish-like memory.
Other work
In 2004, he presented the game show
Although BrainTeaser aired at 12:30 pm and the baseball coverage ended in the early hours, an unanticipated clash occurred in October 2005 when Game 3 of the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros went to 14 innings, causing the match to end at 7 am UK time, resulting in his missing the train to Bristol to record BrainTeaser.
Subsequently Gould was seen on satellite channels Monte Carlo Roulette and
5 live started broadcasting a Major League Baseball audio feed each Sunday night on 4 July 2010,[5] with Jonathan Gould hosting the broadcast and Josh Chetwynd providing analysis between innings.[6] The series returned in 2011 with an earlier timeslot of 6 pm – 10 p.m. every Sunday, but Gould was replaced by Nat Coombs.
President's Club
In January 2018, while hosting a charity auction for the President's Club in London, he was quoted in the Financial Times as welcoming people to "the most un-PC event of the year".[7] The event generated controversy after it was reported that women hired as waitresses for the evening were groped by male guests.[2] Gould, for his part, maintained he had not witnessed any inappropriate behaviour at the event.[8]
References
- ^ Dodd, Rustin (27 June 2019). "'There was a sort of irreverence about it all': How a..." The Athletic. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ a b Goodley, Simon (24 January 2018). "'I've never done the Presidents Club before and I wouldn't again'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ Internet Wayback Machine). 25 April 2011. Archived from the originalon 25 April 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ "Jonny Gould". LinkedIn. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ Baseball GB
- ^ 5 Live
- ^ Marriage, Madison (23 January 2018). "Men Only: Inside the charity fundraiser where hostesses are put on show". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ "Scandal-hit club shuts amid groping claims". BBC News. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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