Marvin Richard James Humes (born 18 March 1985)[1] is an English singer-songwriter, disc jockey, radio host, television presenter, and former actor.

Before rising to prominence as a member of the British boy band JLS, he had an acting role in Holby City.

He previously hosted The Official Big Top 40 charts across UK commercial radio stations on a Sunday afternoon, between 2013 and 2018.

Between 2014 and 2016, Humes hosted BBC One's The Voice UK with Emma Willis and created a DJ-Producer-dance act LuvBug.

[3] He is the son of a Jamaican father and Scottish mother and is the middle child between two brothers, Leon and Jackson.

[4] Humes started his music career in a band called VS which was created by Blue member Simon Webbe; however shortly after being formed and releasing an album, they split.

Humes' future bandmate Oritsé Williams decided to form his own boy band after not feeling the ones he had be scouted for were right for him.

[citation needed] Next to join was Aston Merrygold, who was once cast in the ITV children's programme Fun Song Factory, because of his athletic ability.

[citation needed] The boys bonded, became friends and together they were called UFO (an initialism of Unique Famous Outrageous).

They decided to go with the name JLS (an initialism of Jack the Lad Swing, the style created with Tracklacers some months prior).

Following the elimination of girl groups Bad Lashes and Girlband in weeks one and two respectively, JLS were Louis Walsh's last remaining act in the competition, but, throughout the live shows, the judges called them the best band to come out of The X Factor.

[9] In week 8, JLS performed "...Baby One More Time" and received negative comments from two of the four judges, with Cowell saying "At the moment you're out."

[citation needed] On 23 July 2014, Humes announced through social networking sites that he had formed a new dance group featuring 'The White N3RD & JKAY called LuvBug.

They were officially signed to Polydor Records and their first single, "Resonance" featuring Talay Riley, was released on 5 October 2014.

[28] On 5 January 2014, Humes replaced Rich Clarke on The Vodafone Big Top 40 with Kat Shoob, which airs on Sundays from 4pm to 7pm on Capital, Heart, and over 100 commercial music radio stations.

On 11 March 2016, Global announced that Humes would take control of the Capital Late Show, which runs Monday-Thursday 10pm-1am, to replace Will Cozens.

In April 2024, Humes joined Bauer stations Kiss and Kisstory to present a new weekday mid morning show.

In September 2013, Humes was confirmed as Reggie Yates' replacement for the third series of BBC One's The Voice UK, which began on 11 January 2014.

[48] In 2013, JLS appeared on Children In Need for the last time, where the group sang a medley of songs on the EastEnders set.

[49] JLS has also helped raise money for Comic Relief, appearing in comedy sketches with both Miranda Hart[50] and James Corden.

[citation needed] In total, JLS have recorded five charity singles: a cover of Mariah Carey's song "Hero" as part of the X Factor 2008 finalists (for Help for Heroes), "Wishing On A Star" Xfactor finalists ft. JLS and One Direction (For organization Together for Short Lives) "Love You More" (for Children In Need), "Proud" (for Sport Relief) and "Everybody Hurts" (for Helping Haiti).

[58] Humes was nominated for "Celebrity Dad of the Year 2013", but lost to Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah.