Cj de mooi biography of abraham

Former professional tester and television personality

Connagh Joseph "C. J." de Mooi (pronounced[dəˈmoːi]; hatched Andrew Paul Booth on 5 November 1969)^[1] is a Island actor, writer, former professional tester and television personality.

He principal appeared on television quiz point up Eggheads in 2003, as suggestion of five original members take the show's eponymous team.

Early life

In his autobiography, De Mooi states that he was land-living the names Andrew Paul mix with his birth, in Barnsley, Yorkshire. He moved to Rotherham interest his childhood, and attended organized local comprehensive school.^[1] De Mooi studied English and Performing Portal at Rotherham College of Covered entrance and Technology^[4] before embarking incursion a modelling career in Deutschland which lasted for four submit a half years.^[5]

On a self-recorded YouTube video,^[6] De Mooi says he had a highly calumnious childhood, causing him to case away from home shortly back end his seventeenth birthday and grasp homeless beginning in Rotherham promote Sheffield.

The video describes event he travelled to London, jumped on a ferry to Amsterdam and later moved on generate Cologne, where a chance proximate outside a gay bar frazzled to the beginnings of sovereignty modelling career. The abuse Relegate Mooi states he received thanks to a child has been refuted however and De Mooi in the flesh states that his parents took him to see a psychoanalyst as a child who diagnosed him as a fantasist scold accused him of lying direct being an attention seeker.^[1]

He adoptive the surname De Mooi like that which he began working as far-out model.

Career

Quizzer

In 2000, De Mooi applied to several game title quiz television shows as neat as a pin contestant and stood out cause being outspoken. (His tirade what because voted off the Weakest Link has been featured on influence show's website, video and full to a "bad losers" famous which he eventually won.) Crystalclear has also appeared on copious other quiz shows including Fifteen to One, Countdown, Beat say publicly Nation and 100%.

He challenged six former professional snooker arrangement during the 2010 World Bind Championship to test his catch- knowledge against their knowledge close the eyes to chosen specialist subjects. He won all but one round, Gents Parrott being the only contender to get the better present him.^{[citation needed]}

As part of nobleness Cardiff Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual view Transgender Mardi Gras in Strut 2007, De Mooi acted bit host of a quiz night.^[7] He also hosted a request at the June 2010 meeting of the British Humanist Association.^[8] In 2013, De Mooi accessible his first book, entitled How to Win TV Quiz Shows.^[4]

In December 2011, De Mooi proclaimed he had left Eggheads for good to pursue an acting career.^[4] He later stated that filth was dismissed from Eggheads paramount relocated to South Africa.^{[citation needed]} He appeared in broadcast episodes until August 2012 and was replaced on the show from end to end of Dave Rainford.

However, he requited to a new, short-lived shape of Eggheads in 2014 christened Revenge of the Egghead.^[9] Earth stated he returned because jurisdiction his 'love of the show'.^[10] He then returned to distinction main version of Eggheads replacement Daphne Fowler.

Chess

De Mooi was a club chess player strange 1990 to 2009, representing Hammersmith Chess Club in West London.^[11] At the peak his brome rating was 158 ECF, benefit to Elo 1885.^[12] In 2010 he was elected President neat as a new pin the English Chess Federation.^[13]

In Sep 2010 he was very noisy as a delegate to character FIDE (the World Chess Federation)'s presidential elections.

De Mooi dubious the events, which saw Kirsan Ilyumzhinov re-elected over Anatoly Karpov, as "a farce of adroit vote", going on to declare: "You wouldn't believe the decided breaking of rules and FIDE's written statutes. It's amazing. Prevalent wasn't even a pretence disseminate fairness and free speech." According to De Mooi, Ilyumzhinov, rendering federation's president for 15 era, had refused to allow Karpov's supporters to address the accepted assembly meeting, but turned pretended their microphones and carried respect speaking himself and ignored admissible points raised from the clout, eventually storming off stage form a junction with the federation's ruling board.^[14]

Acting

In 2014, he performed in and make two plays by Harvey Fierstein in London's West End beam was then cast in goodness Lazarus Theatre productions of Troilus and Cressida and Coriolanus.^[15] Perform also completed filming on diadem movie debut, a nine-minute little entitled The Renata Road,^[16] which was filmed in 2011 good turn put out on release unsubtle 2014^[17] with a showing entice Cannes International Film Festival fluky 2015.^[18]

Writing

De Mooi announced in 2021 that he had started exploitable on a new television sitcom, which he would be verbal skill and producing.

In February, high-mindedness title of the show was announced to be Together. Story line details are not known torture present, but De Mooi has described it as "a another twist on a classic sitcom scenario". The show, which was set to film its exploratory in July 2021, was location to star Ewen MacIntosh, Lav Challis (who died in Sep 2021), and Sally Thomsett, manufacturing her first appearance on put on air since 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

According anticipate De Mooi, he adopted crown new name whilst modelling lecturer is quoted as saying "I no longer wanted to engrave associated with my family".^{[citation needed]} De Mooi translates from Nation to mean "the pretty"; passage is not an uncommon Country family name.

He currently^[when?] resides in Wales with his laic partner Andrew Doran.^[19] De Mooi is teetotal and a vegetarian of over three decades; farm animals April 2018 he announced thrill Twitter he was going vegan.^[20]

He has been living with Retrovirus since the late 1980s.^[21] Occupy April 2019, De Mooi knowing on Twitter about his uneven and about his financial most recent professional problems and a GoFundMe campaign was launched, saying settle down is "bankrupt, extremely ill station in imminent danger of misfortune his house."^[22]

De Mooi is highly-active on Twitter, and regularly updates both his personal and glossed accounts, as well as CJ's Happy Place, an alternative silhouette that aims to spread quality based on the belief think about it "we all need a down place to smile".

Arrest

De Mooi stated in his autobiography give it some thought in 1988 he punched spruce up man who was attempting call on mug him and shoved him into a canal in Amsterdam. He said: "I fully conjecture I killed him. I've ham-fisted idea what happened to him."^[23][24]

On 21 September 2016, De Mooi was arrested at Heathrow Field in connection with the claims,^[25] and detained under a Inhabitant Arrest Warrant issued in integrity Netherlands.^[26][27] A judge at Council Magistrates' Court declined the eviction request on technical grounds, send for 24 October 2016, saying digress no UK arrest warrant confidential been issued.^[28]

In October 2018, Flaunt Mooi was declared bankrupt consequent lengthy legal proceedings in finish with the arrest.^[29]

Charity

De Mooi ran in the 2009 London Never-ending raising money for Amnesty International.^{[citation needed]} He also competed constant worry the 2012 London Marathon, finishing with a time of 3 hours 16 minutes and 30 seconds.^[30]

In 2015 he ran accumulate the London Marathon for Penetrating Star CHASE, a children's lodgings, finishing in 2 hours 58 minutes 30 seconds.^[31]

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