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Christian O'Connell

At the age of 12 Christian O'Connell left his home and went to Japan to study Martial Arts with Steven Seagal. Together they took on the Yakuza and then were headhunted by the CIA for deniable ops. He doesn't like to talk about any of this though. There is no evidence of any of the above, but what is known is this...

Christian O'Connell is an award winning DJ with over 7 Gold Sony Radio Awards (for his shows on Xfm, Five Live with 'Fighting Talk' and Virgin Radio, now Absolute Radio).

He has written for many newspapers and anyone else who will pay him. He often contributes to GQ Magazine (though he wasn't invited to their Man of the Year awards, enough said) He is married to Sarah and has two little girls and a wonder dog called Digby.

You can listen to him every morning from 6-10 on Absolute Radio.

Over the years he has done some amazing radio and also some utter crap. His most famous shabby interview was with Steven Seagal which legendary writer and critic Lyn Barber heard and wrote in The Observer "I have a new hero and his name is Christian O'Connell". Steven wasn't exactly on his best form and Christian had been ill advised by his assistant Brian that Seagal had his own energy drink called Lightening Bolt.

Now you want to hear it don’t you?

He has also made some very bad decisions like the time he hijacked a rival breakfast show to crash their interview with David Tennant. Four engineers and a conference call to Canada were required to pull this off. Was it worth it? Well Christian had "a few days off air" immediately after this event.

He has also presented some award dodging TV shows. Replacing Chris Moyle’s on Channel Five's 'Live With' a TV show set in a pub in a red light area, Genius. What could possibly go wrong? Chris Evans was the Executive Producer. Sadly the show never managed to bring the nation the feature 'Catch the Midget'. It did give us 'Grans with Guns' and many complaints after, a bit where children were asked to design new weapons of war.



Then there was 'Pub Ammo' also for Channel Five, 'World Cuppa' for ITV4 which Paul Whitehouse described kindly as 'not that bad'. One TV critic was closer to the truth with 'Cuppa sick more like'. From that giddy success it was to Sky One and 'Sunday Service'.

He still holds out hope of one day doing a TV show that he is not eternally embarrassed or ashamed of.

The Men Commandments is his first book and lets all hope it goes better than the TV shows.