Alex Dyson
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Alex Dyson is an Australian radio presenter who, along with co-host Tom Ballard
Tom Ballard
Tom Ballard is a tall, blond, fast-talking, openly gay, Australian radio presenter and comedian.-Early life:Thomas Colin Ballard grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria and attended Brauer College Warrnambool, graduating in 2007 where he was dux with an ENTER of 99.80, and was consequently named as the...

 presents the breakfast show on Australian youth radio station Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

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Dyson grew up in Warrnambool and began his radio career on local community station 3WAY
3WAY
3WAY is an Australian community radio station, based in Warrnambool....

 FM. Dyson and Ballard began presenting mid-dawn shifts for Australian youth radio station in 2007. They made their transition to weekend radio in late 2008, taking over from Sam Simmons.

On 23 November 2009, Triple J announced that Tom Ballard
Tom Ballard
Tom Ballard is a tall, blond, fast-talking, openly gay, Australian radio presenter and comedian.-Early life:Thomas Colin Ballard grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria and attended Brauer College Warrnambool, graduating in 2007 where he was dux with an ENTER of 99.80, and was consequently named as the...

 and Dyson would take over as hosts of the 2010 Breakfast show.

World Record attempts

In December 2008, live on Triple J radio, Dyson attempted to break the Guinness world record for the most Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher is a spherical chocolate sweet made by Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA. Introduced in 1982, the chocolates consist of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts. The sweets each contain 73...

 chocolates eaten in one minute, which stood at seven. However, he only managed to equal the record.
Currently, the radio presenter holds the record for 'Male who bares the most resemblance to Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...

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If my mum is reading this, hi mum!

Battle of the Bits Winner!

On Wednesday, 29th July 2011 Alex Dyson won the International Battle of the Bits which is a competition held by KLT (Commercial Rock station in Michigan) the competition consists of contestants writing parody songs, in this case the Americans wrote songs about Australia and vice versa, Alex did a parody using Eminem's song "Lose yourself" he won by a landslide by capturing the hearts of the Michigan audience. One of the funnier parody songs was by Dyson's breakfast radio producer, Ollie Wards, who currently is not famous enough to have his own wiki page. you can also hear this at the reference. -- reference: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s3273624.htm

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