Joy is a Japanese male fashion model, variety television personality, commentator, singer, and chairperson. His real name is Joseph Greenwood. He is represented with Grick, and he's currently the only male to be represented by this agency. He was born from Takasaki, Gunma. His father is English and his mother is Japanese, from Gunma Prefecture. He graduated from Takasaki Municipal Terao Elementary School, Takasaki Municipal Terao Junior High School, and Okayama University of ScienceHigh School. His older sister Sophia is also a model.
Biography
While at the Okayama University of Science High School, he was introduced by his older sister Sophia which triggered his model activities at the magazine MensEGG. Appeared as a member of MensEGG models at the planning "Who is Your Husband!?" in the variety showShabekuri 007 of Nippon TV appearing with Tsubasa Masuwaka on February 2009. He showed off an impression of Sei Hiraizumi and collected attention. When he later played back to the same programme, he appeared as "Joy Gundan" and the position was reversed with Naoki Umeda who was then the main. His appearances triggered, belonging to Bennu from the spring of the same year, and made full-scale talent activity from autumn. On 20 January 2010, he also debuted as singer with unit "Naoki Umeda featuring Joy" with MensEGG model Naoki Umeda. He was later hospitalised with pulmonary tuberculosis in March 2011. He was suspended because of medical treatment, but announced on his official blog that he left the hospital on 13 June. On the 29th of the same month, his first "crown programme" Joynt! started. From his previous experience of fighting diseases in 2011, he was appointed "Stop TB Partnership Japan Ambassador". From 2015 he made regular appearances on Go Go! Smile!. As of 1 April 2016, he transferred his office to Grick from Bennu. In February 2017, he won in the programme plan "Second Generation Sunshine Saito Grand Prix" of Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!
Personal life
His father is an English conversation lecturer and have conversations with his father in English. Neither himself nor his family knows its origin of his stage name Joy. In junior high school he was selected as a football Gunma Prefecture selection and had experience of participating as a trainee for Arsenal F.C. youth for two weeks at his father's connection of the British, although the future was regarded promising, but the high school first grader sometimes hurt his back and abandoned the path of football. At that time his sister started to work as a model and began to adore. In addition, football continues to be his hobby even now, often appearing in the planning of television programmes such as Honoo-no Taiiku-kai TV. Before his modelling debut, he worked at a big cante/beer garden in Takasaki store at Takashimaya. He is often mistaken for Yuji from his appearance and character similarity. In 2015 they both guest appeared in Tetsuko no Heya. He is professing that it he a fan of Minami Takahashi of AKB48, but Takahashi bitterly laughed and said it was "impossible to see as a man." He is also a fan of Uverworld, Unjash, Konan, Sei Hiraizumi, and Domingo Guzmán. He formed a half party with Antony, Yukio Ueno, and Mandy Sekiguchi.
