Tony Blackburn
British radio presenter, offshore broadcaster
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Antony Kenneth "Tony" Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 at its launch at the end of September 1967. In 2002 he was the winner and thus "King of the Jungle" of the ITV reality TV programme I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. On 25 February 2016 Blackburn was sacked by the BBC, but in October 2016 it was announced he would rejoin
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