Biography
Bacon grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and went to St Peter's CE Primary School on Bellamy Road, then Wellow House Prep School before moving to the independent school Worksop College. He studied Politics at Nottingham Trent University, but dropped out after a year. His first job before moving into media was working at McDonald's Restaurant.
Bacon's first job in the media was as a reporter for BBC Radio Nottingham, notably on the programme The Beat, for which he interviewed Nicole Kidman. In February 1996, Bacon joined L!VE TV as reporter, which saw him being banned from the State Opening of Parliament and having a beer thrown at him by Damon Albarn as he tried to interview him leaving a nightclub.
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