Tim Lovejoy
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| Born | 28 March 1968 Northwood, Middlesex |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
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Timothy Paul Jane Lovejoy (born 28 March 1968) is a British television presenter most famous for hosting Saturday morning football programme Soccer AM alongside Helen Chamberlain for over a decade.
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[edit] Career
He began his television career as a covering VJ for MTV UK. He then founded Planet 24, working as a researcher for The Big Breakfast before going on to produce the show.[1]
Richard Marson's book celebrating fifty years of Blue Peter also comments that Lovejoy auditioned as a presenter in the 1990s.[citation needed]
[edit] Soccer AM years
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Lovejoy began hosting and producing football show Soccer AM on SKY Television in 1996, with Helen Chamberlain. He remained on the show for eleven years.
Following the success of Soccer AM, Lovejoy became a radio DJ, joining Xfm before moving to Virgin Radio, where he briefly presented a Sunday-afternoon show. He also hosted Tim Lovejoy and the Allstars, a show similar to TFI Friday, on Sky One, on which he chatted with celebrities, between performances from a variety of bands.
In 2006, Lovejoy was appointed as the co-host of the car show Fifth Gear on Five for one series.
Lovejoy announced on 5 June 2007 that he would be leaving Soccer AM after eleven years.[2]
[edit] Post-Soccer AM
Following his departure from Soccer AM, Lovejoy joined BBC Radio Five Live as the Wednesday-night host of its football phone-in show 6-0-6 though he was dropped in 2009.[3] He also presented the UK edition of Five's Major League Soccer magazine show David Beckham's Soccer USA
Since 2006, Lovejoy has co-presented the Sunday-morning TV programme Something for the Weekend on BBC Two, alongside chef Simon Rimmer and various female co hosts, most recently with Louise Redknapp (previous co-hosts include Amanda Hamilton and Caroline Flack).[citation needed] Broadcast magasine reported on January 7th that the show, which in 2011 ran as a 46 x 90-minute series, has fallen foul of the BBC's Delivering Quality First cuts and will end in March 2012.
In 2008, he launched an internet TV channel called Channel Bee. As of 20 November 2009, this website was taken down.[4]
In February 2010 he guest presented an episode of Blue Peter 12 years after auditioning for the show. A clip of Lovejoy's original audition was shown during the programme.[5]
In 2010, he made a cameo appearance as a news reporter in the feature length comedy Being Sold.[citation needed]
Lovejoy is also a regular presenter on FATV, owned and run by The Football Association FATV is the video content of the FA's website www.thefa.com.[citation needed]
He currently does the voiceover for the William Hill TV adverts.[citation needed] and participated in the 2011 series of Celebrity MasterChef.
[edit] Books and DVDs
Lovejoy has put his name to three books and 2 DVDs. His first book was Lovejoy on Football: One Man's Passion for the Most Important Subject in the World (published by Century, London, 2007).
The two other books are linked to his TV series; Lazy Brunch, co-authored with chef Simon Rimmer (Quadrille Publishing, London, 2008) and Something for the Weekend: 60 fabulous recipes for a Lazy Brunch, also 'co-authored' with Rimmer (Quadrille Publishing, London, 2009). His name is also associated with two DVDs on football: Lovejoy and Redknapp's Best Of Football, (2007) and Tim Lovejoy's Football Managers Uncut - A Guide to the Game's Greatest Gaffers (2008).
[edit] Personal life
Lovejoy married "Jade" in 2002 and has twin girls from the marriage; Grace and Rose. The couple are now divorced.[6]
In 2009 he was named by The Daily Telegraph as the 49th most eligible bachelor in Britain, he declined an award due to his hatred of long words leading him to an irrational fear and hatred of The Daily Telegraph.[7]
His favourite band is The Specials, he also has a Destinys Child tattoo.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Tim Lovejoy Biography Speakers Corner
- ^ Dowell, Ben (5 June 2007). "Lovejoy to leave Soccer AM". MediaGuardian. The Guardian. http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2095733,00.html. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ^ Plunkett, John (26 June 2007). "Lovejoy to host Five Live phone-in". MediaGuardian. The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/26/radio.bbc. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ^ MediaGuardian (2008-07-07). "Tim Lovejoy: Leaving Sky was the day my life changed". Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2008/jul/07/leavingskywasthedaymylif. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ Published Tuesday, Feb 16 2010, 10:37 GMT (2010-02-16). "Lovejoy to guest present 'Blue Peter'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a203485/lovejoy-to-guest-present-blue-peter.html. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ "Sunday Mirror article". Findarticles.com. 2006-02-05. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20060205/ai_n16045507/pg_2/?tag=content;col1. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ 10:06AM BST 14 Jun 2009 (2009-06-14). "Telegraph list of most eligible bachelors". Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5531303/Britains-top-50-most-eligible-bachelors.html. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
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[edit] External links
- Tim Lovejoy at the Internet Movie Database
- Tim Lovejoy on Myspace
- TF90M interview
- The Sun interview
- RDF Management profile
- When Saturday Comes book review
- Daily Telegraph article
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