Chris Tarrant

Christopher John "Chris" Tarrant, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English radio and television broadcaster. He hosted the ITV children's television show Tiswas from 1974 to 1982, the ITV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? from 1998 to 2014, and was a Capital Radio host from 1984 to 2004.

Early life

Tarrant was educated as a boarder in Choir House at the King's School, Worcester from 1960–1964. He represented the school at hockey and cricket and gained A, B and D grades at A-level in English, History and Ancient History. He then studied English at the University of Birmingham, having declined an Oxford scholarship. Tarrant worked as a schoolteacher and also briefly as a researcher for the Central Office of Information before joining ATV as a newsreader on ATV Today.

Career

Tiswas

Tarrant rose to prominence after becoming a co-host on Tiswas, a children's television show broadcast on a Saturday morning from 1974 to 1981. In 1982, he hosted the short-lived Saturday evening show O.T.T., which was billed as an adult version of Tiswas, but this was not such a success. After this, he did a stint on the breakfast television station TV-am.

Chris Tarrant (footballer)

Chris Tarrant (born 18 September 1980) is a retired Australian footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club, and has also played for the Fremantle Football Club. He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season that he would return to Melbourne for personal reasons and would not extend his contract with Fremantle for the 2011 season. He returned to the Collingwood Football Club via a trade. He made his name as a key forward, but upon his move to Fremantle in 2009, Tarrant found a new position in the backline. Tarrant was noted for his spectacular high marking, athleticism and pace on a lead.

Early life

Born in Mildura, Victoria, Tarrant originally played for South Mildura in the Sunraysia Football League and moved to Bendigo in 1996 on an AFL scholarship.

In his younger days he was a top basketballer, making the Victorian state Under 15 squad before concentrating on football.

His younger brother Robbie Tarrant plays for North Melbourne.

AFL career

Collingwood Football Club