Chris Cowey (born c. 1961 in Sunderland) is an English television producer specialising in music shows. He is best known for producing Top of the Pops from 1997 until 2003.[1] [2]
Cowey co-presented the Tyne Tees television pop show All Right Now and spent several years as a DJ at Sunderland Mayfair (Mecca) in the late 1970s. He also produced the Channel 4 music show The White Room between 1995 and 1996 and worked on The Tube in Newcastle in the 1980s. He co-presented Check It Out 1979 to 1982 and was one of the interviewers of the notorious appearance of John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) when he walked off set, leaving Cowey shaken.[3]
He became one of the judges on the ITV1 reality show Soapstar Superstar in 2006[4] and reprised this role in 2007.
He is a supporter of Sunderland A.F.C.[5]