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Iain Lee (born 9 June 1973) is an English comedian and radio and television presenter, who has appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show, video game review show Thumb Bandits and the ill-fated Channel 4 breakfast show . He also presented the documentary Thumb Candy and appears regularly on Channel 4's "Top 100" series of programmes. Most recently he has presented Celebrity Soup for E! Entertainment Television taking a wry look at the weeks celebrity news. He is known to have a penchant for the band KISS, as well as various video games.

Iain was brought up in Slough and attended Herschel Grammar School.

LBC 97.3 radio show

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Please see the relevant discussion on the [London radio station LBC 97.3 FM. When he joined in January 2005, Iain Lee hosted the 10pm-1am night slot over the weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. The later months of 2005 saw his position moving to the afternoon slot, where he aired between 4pm-7pm, in a show called "The 3 Hour 4 'Till 7 Iain Lee Afternoon Wireless Show". This shift was seen as highly controversial as many liked Iain being on at the weekends, but the shift meant people will hear more of Iain. At the beginning of 2006, his hours were shifted slightly (to make room for the returning Anna Raeburn and 'The Big Quiz', hosted by Gary King). The new name for his new time slot reflects the hours he is now on the air (none), hosting his phone-in talk show - "The 3 and a Half Hour 3 'Till 6:30 Iain Lee Afternoon Wireless Show formerly known as The 3 Hour 4 'Till 7 Iain Lee Afternoon Wireless Show".

Iain originally joined the station to present the night slot on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, and his style is less political or serious and much more irreverent than other daytime presenters. Show topics include "what's the best PS2 game?" to "What have you seen looking in other peoples windows?". He is good friends with LBC evening presenter Clive Bull with whom he has in the past had a running feud involving practical jokes such as substituting a picture of Phil Collins for the picture of Clive Bull on the official LBC 97.3 website. Iain and Clive have now buried the hatchet to become "Radio Buddies" (Iain's only LBC radio buddy) however a new feud started with former friend James O'Brien, Iain calling James a 'Moonface'. As a result, James challenged Iain to a race around a football pitch near the Chrysalis building. Iain was very confident by saying "He would moonwalk the finish line", and won against James on 12 December 2005 in a race held at Westway Sports Centre.

Iain has a number of correspondents, who are regular listeners, appointed by him to report on subjects such as 'Podcast', 'Video Games', 'London Underground 'The Platypus' and 'The Iain Lee Obsessive With Nothing Better To Do'.

The opportunity to become a correspondent is a rare one and much valued by his fans. To celebrate his birthday, a small number of correspondents have been favoured with the even more prestigious title of "Uber-Correspondent" but the one which the biggest prestigious title was Vatsal from India with "Web Uber Veteran 5 Star Correspondent". This hallowed status can only be dreamt of by most. On 23 September 2005 a major shakeup of the correspondent list occurred. Some lost their jobs, but others joined the line-up to bring listeners updates on even more varied subjects. However, a special "Diagnosis Murder" correspondent was elected on the 15 November. Another shakeup happened on 27 December 2005, when some new correspondents were instantly promoted to "Uber Correspondent", (quite a few cuts were made and about 20 new correspondents appointed).

The following correspondents were sacked by Iain up to 28 March 2006

Diagnosis Murder Correspondent – Francesca in The Croydon
E-Bay Correspondent - Ed
Fitness in Rap Correspondent – Colin in The Fulham
Geek Correspondent - Amit
General Fashion Correspondent - Neelima
Green Day Correspondent – Megan
Iain Sort of Songs Correspondent - Yasmin
International Hockey Correspondent
Michael Caine Correspondent - Rich
Montenegro Correspondent - Egor/Igor
Oldie Correspondent - Paddy
Penelope Keith Uber Correspondent - Sam
Riddle Correspondent – Rikki
Spurs Correspondent - Daniel in Slough
Susans Grandson Charlie Correspondent - Susan
Urban Music Correspondent - Michael in Slough
Wallington County Grammar School Correspondent
Thin People in London Correspondent - Malcolm (made redundant)

Iain has his own master of sound effects known only as Wisdom Jones, renowned for his sound effects. Wisdom Jones visited the studio on 28 August and treated the listeners to yet more live sound effects.

Iain's show is one of the list of LBC programmes which are subscription podcast via the internet, as well as a free podcast available through iTunes.

Iain Lee has also been known to reward his regular listeners. His Knight Rider correspondent was recently sent to see the car KITT featured in the show, thanks to Iain.

In January 2006, Iain Lee admitted on air to having been suspended for a day (Friday 6 January) for calling a caller a dickhead on air. This explains his absence and a recorded show being broadcast on that day. Iain holds a session where callers go straight to air between 6pm to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday, as well as between 10pm on Sunday night and 1am on Monday morning. This is known as Triple M'. It is extremely popular and many people do a mixture of things such as playing pieces of music, swearing, making disgusting sounds or other comedic pieces. Others do impressions, or 'take the mick'. Some callers also like to do impersonations of other talk radio presenters, such as Clive Bull, talkSPORT's Mike Mendoza, Charlie Wolf and Mike Dickin, who are all said to Fear Iain Lee'', and are his greates rivals.

On Wednesday 1st March 2006, Iain's producer, Agent Chris took over and presented the day's edition of Triple M, or Mick's Mental Mayhem. It is unknown whether this will be continued in future editions of this show.

On Friday, 7th April 2006, Iain edited the Correspondent List again, which included some being hired, two correspondents receiving a promotion, and one correspondent got demoted. A large number being sacked. This time however, Iain did not take any notice of people wanting to become correspondents by e-mail, only by phone-in.

On Thursday 11th May 2006 it was announced that the show had seen spectacular growth in listening, with 101% growth on the figures released by RAJAR three months previously. The station also attracted its youngest ever audience profile.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

He occasionally appears on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends.

Since Sunday 7th May 2006, Iain has hosted the three hour 10pm-1am slot on Sundays, of Triple M, where the calls go straight to air. Iain's producer, Agent Chris, also goes in Iain's side of the glass and helps Iain select lines to come on, read e-mails and give news from a paper. On Sunday 18th June Clive Bull's producer, "Crazy" Bob Johnson, came in to replace Agent Chris's position. Iain found Bob much more useful. Finally, on Wednesday 29th June, 2006, a swap of producers took place, Agent Chris moving to Clive's programme and Bob moving to Iain's. Clive's callers generally resented this while Iain's found it beneficial.

Only recently has Agent Chris and Bob Johnson swapped again to their original positions, due to a slight collapse of Iain's and Bob's relationship.

Immediately after the Triple M show on Sunday 2nd July, Iain and Agent Chris went to Gatwick Airport and flew to Alicante in Spain. Therefore, Iain will be away until Monday 10th July. On Monday and Tuesday, Nick Abbot will fill the slot. Wednesday to Friday will see Jon Holmes cover Iain and Sunday will see an un-heard presenter.

External links

[The Official Iain Lee website]
[Iain Lee's Official Message Board]
[Iain Lee Forum]
[LBC 97.3 Iain Lee page] includes full list of correspondents
[Best of Iain Lee podcast feed]
[Iain Lee's My Space]
[Agent Chris' My Space]
[Iain Lee News Network]

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