Nick Grimshaw to go back to university after quitting Radio One Breakfast Show
The DJ has enrolled in London’s Central Saint Martins university in the hope of bagging a new job in live music production
HIS decision to quit the Radio 1 Breakfast Show was enough of a shock, and now Nick Grimshaw has confirmed his career is moving in a surprising direction.
Two months after leaving the show in favour of the drivetime slot, he has enrolled at London’s Central Saint Martins university in the hope of bagging a new job in live music production.
The host presents his Radio 1 show from Monday to Thursday — then spends Fridays and Saturdays studying for the qualification.
Speaking on Thursday at the Albert Kennedy Trust gala dinner, raising funds for homeless LGBT people, he said: “I’m starting a course in set design.
"I’m going back to uni but not forever.
"I want to learn how to be a set designer.
"I want to do live music production.
"I did that before radio so now I basically need to go to uni to get all of the terminology and the language of it.
“I’ll do it at Central Saint Martins on Fridays and Saturdays.
“I had to go and buy my pencils and scalpel and a lightbox to trace.
“I’ve been interning for a bit on and off but it’s always been an interest and a love of mine.”
But Grimmy, who started the course at the weekend, might need to put in a bit more work than he did the first time around.
He originally studied communication and media studies at the University of Liverpool but failed his final year.
Last week I told how he has started dating a dancer named Mesh Henry but it’s not the only positive change in his life since ditching the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
He added: “Now I get up at 8.30am, which is four hours later, and I’ve started doing a new horrible workout every day.”
Actually, the later starts suddenly don’t seem quite such an unappealing prospect.
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