Christopher Graham Collins (born on 28 January 1957), expertly known as Frank Skinner, is an English essayist, jokester, TV and radio moderator, and entertainer. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was granted the Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. 

He introduced or co-introduced Fantasy Football League from 1994 to 2004, The Frank Skinner Show from 1995 to 2005, Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned from 2000 to 2005, and Room 101 from 2012 to 2018.

Since 2009 he has facilitated The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, broadcast live on Saturdays, and later delivered as a web recording. 

Alongside David Baddiel, he gave vocals and composed the verse for "Three Lions", the authority tune in a joint effort with the Liverpudlian independent band The Lightning Seeds, to check the England football crew's support in the 1996 European Championships (which was facilitated in England); he additionally repeated his part to deliver two resulting forms of the melody for the England group's contribution in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The 1996 rendition is the lone tune at any point to have four separate spells at number one in the UK singles graph with similar specialists, the latest coming in July 2018 after England arriving at the semi-finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. 

Early life 

Skinner was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, and experienced childhood in a boarding house in adjoining Oldbury.

He was the most youthful of four youngsters born to John Collins (1918–1990) and his better half Doris (1919–1989). He has two more established siblings, Keith and Terrence, and a more seasoned sister, Nora. 

Skinner wrote in his collection of memoirs that his dad, who was brought into the world in West Cornforth, County Durham, played for Spennymoor United before the Second World War, and met his mom in a neighborhood bar after Spennymoor had played West Bromwich Albion in a FA Cup game in 1937. Notwithstanding, club authorities and students of history couldn't discover his dad in their records. 

Skinner went to Moat Farm Infant School from 1961 to 1964, St. Hubert's Roman Catholic Junior School from 1964 to 1968, and afterward Oldbury Technical Secondary School from 1968 to 1973.

He passed two O-levels in summer 1973 and took A-levels in English language and workmanship, alongside a few O-level resits, at Oldbury Technical School Sixth Form.

He in this way took 4 A-levels (counting English language and writing) at Warley College of Technology and moved on from Birmingham Polytechnic (presently Birmingham City University) in 1981 with a degree in English. This was trailed by a Master's certificate in English writing at the University of Warwick in Coventry the next year. 

In spite of his given first name of Christopher, his folks called him by his center name Graham; every one of his companions alluded to him, some actually do, as Chris. S

kinner once clarified that at whatever point somebody called at his home to inquire as to whether "Chris" was there, his mom would say indeed, just to then pivot and yell for "Graham".

He embraced the stage name Frank Skinner when the entertainers' association Equity advised him there was at that point a vocalist from Burnley on their books called Chris Collins. He took the name from an individual from his late dad's dominoes group. 

Profession 

Subsequent to graduating, he burned through three-and-a-half years on joblessness benefits prior to looking for some kind of employment as a speaker in English at Halesowen College.

In 1987, he chose to check stand-up satire out as an afterthought. Skinner played out his first stand-up gig in 1987 and made his TV debut a year later. In 1990, he co-composed and featured in the parody theatrical presentation Packet of Three on Channel 4 yet kept on considering his to be as a stand-up develop.

Prior to turning into a full-time entertainer in 1989, he endured an episode of flu in September 1986 that made him quit any pretense of drinking, and he stays a prominent recuperating alcoholic. 

Skinner won the 1991 Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, beating Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard. He has worked with David Baddiel, eminently on the mainstream late-night diversion show Fantasy Football League, from 1994 to 2004, and on Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned from 2000 to 2005.

The couple additionally co-composed and played out the football tune "Three Lions" with the Lightning Seeds and the England public football crew for Euro 1996, and re-recorded it for the 1998 World Cup.

The tune arrived at #1 in the UK diagrams multiple times. In 2001, he delivered his collection of memoirs, Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, which turned into a hit.

The going with the TV show, Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner, in which Skinner showed where he lived as a youngster and meetings with Skinner, his companions, and relatives, was recorded and appeared on ITV in 2001.

In July 2018, "Three Lions" reappeared the outlines at number 1. Fans were commending the advancement of England at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with the expression "it's getting back home" highlighting intensely via online media and TV. 

In 1998, he partook in a narrative named A Little Bit of Elvis. He paid over £11,000 at closeout for a shirt which he accepted was worn by Elvis Presley at his renowned 1956 Tupelo show.

Skinner visited the US to see whether the shirt was the real thing. After a somewhat abnormal discussion with Dave Hebler, Presley's guardian, it seemed the shirt did once have a place with Presley, yet it was not worn at the show. Skinner is a deep-rooted aficionado of Elvis and used to purchase the Elvis Monthly magazine. 

From 1995 to 1998, Skinner had his own visit show on BBC One, which finished when the BBC would not fulfill the compensation needs of an announced £20 million.

After a brief break, the show tracked down another home at ITV in 1999, where it ran until late 2005. He has shown up in various self-composed sitcoms, including Blue Heaven (1994) and Shane (2004). 

In 2000, he showed up as Buttons in the ITV Panto transformation of Cinderella. In 2003, he was recorded in The Observer as one of the 50 most amusing demonstrations in British satire.

In 2005, Skinner reported he planned to abandon his TV work for getting back to the stand-up satire circuit. The second arrangement of Shane had been made however never appeared. 

In February 2006, he got a privileged degree from the University of Central England (presently Birmingham City University). Skinner and David Baddiel covered the 2006 FIFA World Cup by webcast for The Times. The digital broadcasts got a designation for the 2007 Sony Radio Academy Awards. 

In 2007, he played out another live stand-up visit, his first for a very long time, beginning at a warm-up gig at the Swindon Arts Center, proceeding through to the Edinburgh Festival for about fourteen days at The Pleasance, the scene where he won the Perrier Award and a 69 date public visit including three sold-out homecoming exhibitions at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in the harvest time. 

In November 2008 and in the light of senior telecom figures, for example, ITV supervisor Michael Grade and Sir Terry Wogan calling for TV to decrease its utilization of disgusting language, Skinner chose to try different things with eliminating swear words by and large from his quality live demonstration albeit expressed that it would be a disgrace if 'cunning swearing' was lost.

He likewise subbed for an evil Paul Merton as a group skipper on the 21 November version of Have I Got News for You. 

From March 2009, Skinner began to introduce the Saturday Morning Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio with his co-has Emily Dean and Gareth Richards (who was prevailing by Alun Cochrane in June 2011).

The show is delivered by Avalon Television. Following an underlying 12-week spell demonstrated mainstream with the audience members, Skinner's agreement was stretched out until summer 2010. The show is as yet running with both Emily Dean and Alun Cochrane. 

Skinner plays the banjo ukulele and in 2010, he contributed ukulele parts to a melody by Fairport Convention called "Ukulele Central" which highlighted on their collection Festival Bell.

An incredible admirer of George Formby, he facilitated a BBC Four TV narrative, Frank Skinner on George Formby, which circulated on 27 October 2011. 

In 2011, he composed and played out a Radio 4 satire arrangement, Don't Start, with Katherine Parkinson. Every scene depended on contention between Skinner's character Neil and Neil's better half Kim.

Skinner said every scene was just 15 minutes as it was 'too extreme' to be in any way anymore. Try not to Start returned briefly arrangement in 2012. 

From 2012 to 2018, Skinner was the host of BBC show Room 101. In August 2013, he was a group commander on the BBC satire show I Love My Country. 

Individual life 

Skinner and his long-lasting accomplice, Cath Mason, have a child, Buzz Cody (b. 2012). Raised Roman Catholic, Skinner reconnected with the confidence in his 20s and stays a rehearsing Roman Catholic. He is likewise an ally of West Bromwich Albion and consistently goes to games. 

He was a survivor of the credit mash in the last part of the 2000s in the wake of putting resources into AIG, losing a huge number of pounds, therefore. He, at last, got the vast majority of the cashback. 

Skinner quit drinking liquor at age 29, having become concerned when he changed from having sherry for breakfast to Pernod. He fired performing stand-up satire presently thereafter.

He has said that he has always been unable to supplant the "white warmth of satisfaction" he got from liquor and that his public activity has never recuperated from halting drinking.