Dermot O'Leary

Dermot O'Leary is, to my mind, a master of an underrated skill: making other people comfortable on live television. Across more than a decade hosting The X Factor, his real job was absorbing the contestants' nerves, and he did it with a lightness that made the craft invisible. That instinct comes from radio, where he started at Essex Radio and learned to carry a show with voice and timing alone. Add the Friday This Morning slot and a sideline writing children's books, and you get a broadcaster whose range is far wider than his easygoing image suggests. British television runs on people like him and rarely thanks them enough.

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Name (English)

Dermot O'Leary

Name (Japanese)

ダーモット・オレアリー

Reading

だーもっと・おれありー

Born

May 24, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Colchester, United Kingdom

Occupation

radio personality / television presenter / writer / presenter / children's writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

University

Middlesex University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dermotoleary/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermot%20O'Leary
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q900928

Tags

• radio personality
• television presenter
• writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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