Steve Jones has revealed that he’s glad his time on T4 got here earlier than the age of social media and everybody and anybody turned an armchair TV critic on social media.
After working as a mannequin, the Welsh TV character, 45, began his presenting profession within the late 90s engaged on the staple weekend TV present T4, which was broadcast each Saturday and Sunday morning on Channel 4 and ran from 1998 to 2012.
It's credited with launching the careers of lots of its presenters, who've gone on to have been extremely profitable family names, from Alexa Chung, Rick Edwards, Miquita Oliver, Vernon Kay, Dermot O’Leary, Nick Grimshaw to Jameela Jamil, amongst others.
Talking solely to , Steve revealed that the actual fact the present was made earlier than social media is among the causes he cherished engaged on it a lot: ‘With the T4 crowd, that is earlier than WhatsApp and all that stuff. We’re analogue individuals.
‘It’s earlier than Twitter, earlier than Instagram all of that stuff. We’re not WhatsApp group individuals, we a lot want simply to get collectively sit down and catch up the quaint means.
‘We loved engaged on [T4] a lot as a result of it’s earlier than the age of “everybody will get an opinion”, everybody can let you know how bl**dy terrible you're, so we have been simply on the market stuffed with confidence as a result of we weren’t getting any suggestions, you already know, solely from the channel.
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‘Individuals sometimes would method you on the street and say they'd let you know that they have been having fun with it, however whether or not individuals cherished or hated what you have been doing, we weren’t conscious of it we have been simply centered on being ourselves and having fun, which is why it was such an exquisite interval in my profession and I assure everybody else who labored on it feels the identical.’
The presenter, who’s now fortunately married to food-writer spouse Phylicia Jackson-Jones, 36, who he met whereas he was dwelling in LA, additionally touched on whether or not he thinks T4 would nonetheless work at this time.
‘I feel so, why not? There’s a wealth of very profitable TV reveals on the market, so let’s not neglect that T4 was a wrap-around present that linked into Associates, Hollyoaks, and Smallville.
‘So it’s extra concerning the reveals that you simply’re wrapping round somewhat than the presenters who're linking into them. I wish to assume that we introduced in lots of people who loved our antics.
‘I feel there’s positively a gap there for it, and I really feel for individuals who wish to get into presenting these days as a result of there’s probably not anyplace you may go to chop your enamel.
‘As a result of we’re stay presenters, we discovered the commerce over years doing it, and we bought higher for it, so I feel these days, to be a presenter, it’s simply getting on with it, there you go.
‘And I feel that’s a disgrace, it’s a breeding floor for brand spanking new younger expertise coming via.
‘And I assume individuals are being chosen another way nowadays so and also you do no matter it's essential do to grow to be profitable, however I do know I recognize the truth that I slowly went via and discovered my commerce via T4 and it was vital, very crucial.’
After studying the ropes on the present, Steve has gone on to work in a variety of TV, from fronting up BBC One’s Lets Dance for Comedian Reduction with Claudia Winkleman to presenting the primary collection of The X Issue USA in america alongside Nicole Scherzinger.
Extra just lately, he took over because the face of Components 1, which he has now fronted for seven collection.
Now, Steve has simply completed presenting the brand new collection Good Home, Secret Location, on Channel 4, by which potential owners are proven round a possible new favorite residence, however there’s a catch – they aren’t informed the areas.
One of many predominant components of the four-part present options the would-be house-mover being bungled into the again of a van and brought to the key location of their potential new abode.
Commenting on this, Steve laughed: ‘No one has pressed prices but, so I feel we’re getting away with it.
‘I wish to, the individuals on the present have been particularly chosen as a result of they’re actually adventurous individuals.
‘They’re hardy, they’re not scared or intimidated by one thing just a little uncommon, and naturally, it’s very uncommon to be pushed into the again of a blacked-up van, and have a blindfold placed on you and all the remainder of it.
‘However they’re such nice sports activities, they know what they’re getting themselves into, that’s what our authorized staff will say they may contest something that the home hunters may prosecute us with, they knew what they have been getting concerned with.
‘The one factor is, they’re behind the van, generally they get a little bit of movement illness again there. Apparently, in case you’re in a automobile, you will get just a little bit sick, however they get used to it, it’s an extended course of.’
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