Career: After disappearing from the public eye in his teens, Jones became a county level tennis player, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He went on to gain entry at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he trained as an actor. It led to appearances in productions of Twelfth Night and Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. He has become a regular presenter/performer on Songs of Praise and presents his own shows on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio Wales. Jones has also returned to recording music, and touring, to great acclaim. In 2004, he was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. On the 4 May 2012, it was announced that Jones would become the new co-presenter of the ITV breakfast programme Daybreak, alongside Lorraine Kelly. He left Daybreak in April 2014 to host a new breakfast show for ITV called Weekend. His recent TV work has included reporting for Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two and co-presenting daily magazine show Too Much TV, both for BBC2.