Career
Wright became a showbusiness correspondent with The Sun and later wrote a column for the Daily Mirror in the 1990s with future 3AM girl Polly Graham as his assistant. He left the Daily Mirror in 2000 to launch the website mykindaplace.com.
Since 2000, Wright has hosted the daytime chat show The Wright Stuff for Channel Five. It was on his show in 2002 that Wright inadvertently revealed that the celebrity alleged to have raped Ulrika Jonsson was John Leslie, who was ultimately not charged in connection with the allegations. Wright and Leslie later made fun of the situation in the music video for the 2003 Bo' Selecta! Christmas single.
Wright was a contributor to Phil Collins: a Life Less Ordinary, a 2002 BBC TV documentary investigating the life and career of the Genesis band member and solo musician. Until July 2008, he presented the arts and culture programme The Weekender for BBC Radio 2. He currently presents the current affairs series Inside Out London for BBC One and hosts the spin-off Inside Out England (when the Regional Variations of Inside Out have finished their runs)
In 2001, he wrote Martine McCutcheon's biography, Who Does She Think She Is?: My Autobiography.
In September 2011, Wright joined the Daily Star on Sunday as a columnist but was dropped by the newspaper in March 2012.
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