Born in Birmingham to an English father and Croatian mother, Adrian Chiles, 57, has had a long career as a TV and radio presenter. In 2007, he presented ‘The One Show’ before moving to ‘Match of the Day’. In 2019, he began writing a column for ‘The Guardian on the banalities of life.
He has two daughters with his ex-wife, the presenter Jane Garvey, and is now married to Katherine Viner, the editor of ‘The Guardian’. Here he looks back on the moments that changed his perspective on money, love, his career, and his health. The ups and downs with my income have been stressful over the years but I’ve always been quite careful with money.
I never spent more than I had. When I joined ITV, I started earning a lot of money which was weird. Then things went the other way [in 2015 it was announced that Chiles’s contract with ITV Sport was terminated with immediate effect], and suddenly I was earning a lot less.
It has been a bit of a rollercoaster, but I remain relatively well off by anybody’s standards. There was a moment when I was earning more, and I bought a flat. It was a big flat, and it had this great big dining table.
It had 12 chairs and everything. When I moved in, I thought I’d cook myself a nice meal to celebrate the move. I sat down at this huge bloody table and thought: What am I doing? What madness is this? It was a real moment of realisation for me.
I didn’t regret buying the flat, but after that, I tried to buy less stuff. When parents get old a.
