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Pete Price (born Peter Lloyd Price on 25 January 1946) is a British media personality and radio presenter, based in Liverpool, England. He is best known for the Sunday night talk radio show ''Pete Price: Unzipped'', broadcast across sister stations City Talk 105.9 and Radio City 96.7. The show is aired live from 10pm to 2am and follows an open forum format. Price's weeknight phone in, ''Late Night City'' airs live between 10pm and 2am, from Monday to Thursday and is simulcast on City Talk 105.9 and Radio City 96.7. As a comedian he was a winner on the ITV talent show, New Faces.〔Tony Bell, The Independent. (I'm gay, and I don't need a psychiatrist ), 24 Oct 1995. Accessed 14 April 2015.〕 He is also an author, patron for Claire House Children's Hospice and columnist for the ''Liverpool Echo''. He is openly gay, which is often the subject of prank calls to his radio show. He is dyslexic and can have trouble reading texts or emails on air. To complement his radio show Price also gives out a personal phone number for listeners to talk to him in confidence. ==Early life== Price was born in Wrexham, Wales, and adopted at three months old in April 1946 by Hilda Price and David Lloyd. He was raised in West Kirby, Cheshire, England. He was notably closer to his mother than his father, who repeatedly was violent towards Hilda Price. When he was twelve he came to terms with his homosexuality, but when consulting his doctor he was told he'd "grow out of it". Two years later Price went back to the same doctor, only be to prescribed some Valium. A combination of his homosexuality, problems with school and problems socially put him into a state of despair. At the age of fourteen he attempted to overdose on child-strength aspirin, only to wake up the next morning.〔 At fifteen Price was working as a hairdresser at the weekend whilst studying cookery at Birkenhead Technical College (now ''Wirral Metropolitan College''). He began working for the wealthy Ward family, catering for their dinner parties, as well as being a close family friend. He soon got a professional catering job, a summer at the Cavendish Hotel in Eastbourne and went on to manage a Fullers Tea Shop in Worthing.〔 Price was sent to an institution in Chester to receive aversion therapy when he came out to his mother at age eighteen. He left after one day after being exposed to people being "treated" using electrodes. A few days later he recognised one of the psychiatrists from the institution in a gay bar. In 1993, after stories had emerged of others being treated this way in hospitals, he decided to go public with his story, to encourage more people to come forward.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pete Price」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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