Biography

Wide Boy Youth
Real name: Jonathan Harry Coleman
Effective period / Period of releases: 1984
Wide Boy Youth, aka Jonathan Coleman, OAM (born 29 February 1956, London, England - died 9 July 2021, Sydney, Australia) was an English-born Australian television presenter, radio announcer, writer, performer of comedy and advertorial spokesperson. He started his media career in Australia in the late 1970s and also worked in his native United Kingdom. Coleman spent much of the 1980s hosting radio and TV shows with long time colleague Ian Rogerson.