Biography

Member of British pop group The Housemartins (1986).

His video for the single "Praise You" won many MTV awards in 1999-2000, notably for director Spike Jonze.

Member of dance group Beats International in the early 1990s.

Fatboy Slim and wife Zoë Ball have two children. Son Woody Fred Cook was born on 15th December 2000 and daughter Nelly May Lois Cook was born on 14 January 2010.

Owns a minority interest in his hometown football (soccer) club, Brighton and Hove Albion.

I'm not a big fan of football records. I thought Three Lions was quite a good anthem and World In Motion was a good record, apart from the John Barnes rap.

(2011, on quitting drinking) I quit drinking two years ago, and that makes the whole DJ thing so much more manageable, and my life. Whereas before, I was always just kind of dragging myself up from some hotel room floor, whereas now I fly around the globe and give good parties, and I'm not focused on scraping up bits of myself off the floor.

[on re-locating to Brazil] I am more popular there that I am in England. It's an ongoing mutual love affair. I was gobsmacked. I went right to the other side if the world where I didn't speak the language, and I played my tunes and they went, 'We like this. We get this. We like you'.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.