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What Is Karl Pilkington’s Net Worth?
Karl Pilkington is an English tv and radio persona, journey present presenter, author, actor, and former radio producer who has a net worth of $3 million. Karl Pilkington rose to prominence whereas producing and showing on Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Xfm radio program within the early 2000s.
On tv, Karl has appeared on “The Ricky Gervais Show” (2010–2012), the journey documentary collection “An Idiot Abroad” (2010–2012), Gervais’ collection “Derek” (2012–2014), the documentary collection “The Moaning of Life” (2013–2015), and the comedy collection “Sick of It” (2018–2020).
Pilkington, Gervais, and Merchant are the founders of the tv manufacturing firm RiSK Productions, and Karl has printed a number of books, together with “The World of Karl Pilkington” (2006), “Happyslapped by a Jellyfish” (2007), “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington” (2010), and “The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington” (2013).
Early Life
Karl Pilkington was born on September 23, 1972, in Sale, Greater Manchester, England. He grew up with mom Dorothy, father Alan, an older brother, and an older sister within the Racecourse Estate neighbourhood, and he attended Ashton-on-Mersey School. Karl has stated that he did not like faculty and solely confirmed as much as promote copies of video video games to different college students, stating, “I wasn’t going to highschool to be taught, I used to be going to earn.” Pilkington dropped out when he was 15 and labored as a disk and cassette printer as a part of a Youth Training Scheme program.
Career
Karl moved to London to work as a producer at radio station Xfm, and he later turned head of manufacturing. In 2001, he began engaged on “The Ricky Gervais Show” as a producer, however after Gervais and Stephen Merchant started asking him to look on the present, he gained reputation with listeners and have become a fundamental presenter on this system. Pilkington additionally created options similar to “Educating Ricky” and “Monkey News” for the present. In 2010, “The Ricky Gervais Show” was become an animated HBO/Channel 4 collection that aired 39 episodes over three seasons. Karl additionally labored with Gervais and Merchant on the 2007 “Extras” collection finale and “An Idiot Abroad,” and he was an additional within the 2010 movie “Cemetery Junction,” which Ricky and Stephen wrote, directed, and appeared in.
In 2012, Pilkington started enjoying Dougie on Gervais’ Channel 4 collection “Derek,” showing in eight episodes. He has additionally appeared within the 2012 Indian movie “Chingari” and the tv collection “Flipside TV” (2003), “3 Minute Wonder” (2006), and “Comedy Lab” (2007). Karl starred within the journey documentary collection “The Moaning of Life” from 2013 to 2015 and the Sky One comedy collection “Sick of It” (which he co-created) from 2018 to 2020. He has additionally carried out voice-over work for quite a few corporations, together with Vodafone, Unilever, and Sony PSP.
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Personal Life
Since the ’90s, Karl has been in a relationship with Suzanne Whiston, a journalist, media persona, and producer who he met whereas they had been each working at Manchester radio station Key 103. Pilkington was a supporter of the soccer membership Manchester City throughout his youth, however he switched his allegiance to Manchester United within the ’90s. He acknowledged in 2018, “I really feel like supporting United is like having a tortoise as a pet. I had a tortoise, and they don’t seem to be entertaining to look at. You do not watch them, however you recognize you’ve got a little bit of duty to point out some curiosity. That is what I do with United. I control them.” In 2014, Karl designed a card for the charitable group the Thomas Coram Foundation to be auctioned off on eBay.
Awards and Nominations
In 2010, Pilkington acquired a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program for “The Ricky Gervais Show,” and he was named Best Presenter for “An Idiot Abroad” on the Factual Entertainment Awards in 2011. “The Ricky Gervais Show” additionally earned him a TV Quick Award nomination for Best Comedy Show in 2011. In 2012, Karl acquired a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Multichannel Programme and a National Television Award nomination for Most Popular Factual Programme for “An Idiot Abroad.”
Real Estate
In 2015, Pilkington paid £2million for a seaside dwelling in Sandbanks, a small peninsula in Dorset, England. The dwelling consists of 4 bedrooms with en suite bogs, a cinema room, and a roof terrace with views of Poole Harbour.
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