Soft Lad: Coming-of-age Stories

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These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. In 'Soft Lad', Grimmy will share his outlooks, surprising obsessions, the things that have shaped him and his personal experiences with the world. Coming-of-age stories from much loved radio royalty, DJ and TV personality Nick Grimshaw - now with a new chapter.Once we’d done trauma, mourning, gay guilt, regular guilt and Catholic guilt, we got on to the easy-breezy ‘Oh yeah, btw forgot to mention, I’m absolutely terrified of being alone. From his move from Oldham, Greater Manchester, to the bright lights of London, to his 14-year career climbing to the helm of the Radio 1 breakfast show, he'll discuss everything from his love of music through to self-care, partying, life-changing nights out, growing up, Red Nose Day, coming out, dogs, family, ADHD, Catholicism, and all that he's seen in-between. These are Grimmy’s brilliant, nostalgic coming-of-age tales, covering life’s pivotal moments, the loves, the losses, and the fun had with the family and friends that made him.

It won’t change the world but if you want to sit and have a brew and a chinwag with Nick Grimshaw this is the book for you. There was the time, for instance, Lady Gaga met his parents, Pete and Eileen, and asked his dad to check if the gaffer tape on her nipples was straight. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I haven’t enjoyed autobiographies or memoirs that much generally but I liked everything about this Soft Boy personal story. Things that are too London for the Grimshaws include, but are not limited to, yoga, oat milk, therapy and drinking a glass of water.

Listened as an audiobook and it was great hearing it told by Grimmy himself, took me right back to morning drives to school listening to his Radio 1 breakfast show, always made me laugh and this book did exactly that, but also had some really genuine moments too. It’s a party that has grown to encompass a jolly podcast with Angela Hartnett, and Celebrity Gogglebox, in which he curls up on the sofa in a tracksuit with his niece, Liv, and chats shit about the telly while eating crisps (“You can’t put a rabbi in a hot-tub,” “Do you know what gets rid of ghosts? For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. It was always Heartbeat that made me feel down that it was the end of the weekend and I still get that feeling today sometimes, although Heartbeat is long gone sadly. Ever since he can remember, Nick Grimshaw wanted to present Radio 1’s breakfast show – and that’s what he did.

A story I remembered, but only the part of it I had been privy to through social media six years ago. In ‘Soft Lad’, Grimmy will share his outlooks, surprising obsessions, the things that have shaped him and his personal experiences with the world.Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. Some, I hope will make you laugh, and some, are emotional AF, so I'm afraid these might make you cry.

Down from Oldham for a football match with his dad one day, little Nick persuaded him to detour so he could look through the windows of the Radio 1 offices, because when he grew up that was where he wanted to present the breakfast show. Right now I've just got my exams back making me a senior journalist so the world is my oyster and who knows what's I've got ahead of me.Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Grimshaw (“Grimmy” to friends, which include, by default, his audiences, who come up to him on the street and start talking as though they’re midway through a conversation) chuckled, awkwardly. These are his very best tales and learnings about himself from things gone right and wrong, with all the high and lows, that will make listeners laugh, cry and feel completely nostalgic. i have been a fan of nick grimshaw for years, both his voice on the radio and his instagram stories cracking me up on the regular; to listen to him speak for six hours about the highs and lows of his life, the stories detailing how he got to where and who he is today was so special, not to mention, so fucking funny. Having listened to Nick Grimshaw for many years on Radio 1, but not knowing much about his personal life or how he got where he is today, this was a very insightful read!