He co-wrote the Kid Normal series of books, presented Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1 and co-hosted the That's What He Said podcast alongside Smith was born in Kettering, England and grew up in Raunds.

[4] On the podcast, Smith established himself as a singer/songwriter by writing, producing and singing 'The Ghost Owl' song and the theme tune to the game 'Mug on a Dog'.

[5] In March 2015, Smith travelled to Uganda alongside James, 1Xtra's Yasmin Evans and other celebrities including Alex Jones, Richard Hammond and Dermot O'Leary to participate in Comic Relief's Operation Health, a project to refurbish the Iyolwa Health Centre in eastern Uganda.

The track samples Smith reading the sentence "George Michael has been arrested in a park in Los Angeles" as part of a news bulletin.

[12] His voice is also heard towards the end of the Bad Education Movie reading out a news story about the resignation of a fictitious Conservative Member of Parliament for Cornwall.