Tim Lovejoy | |
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| Born | Timothy Paul Lovejoy (1968-03-28)28 March 1968 (age 56) |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Spouse | |
| Partner(s) | Tamsin Greenway (2012–2016) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | Official website |
Timothy Paul Lovejoy (born 28 March 1968) is an Englishtelevision presenter best known for hosting Saturday morningfootball programmeSoccer AM withHelen Chamberlain for over a decade andBT Sports Panel on Saturday mornings. He presentsSunday Brunch onChannel 4.
Lovejoy began his television career as a coveringVJ forMTV. He then joinedPlanet 24, working as a researcher forThe Big Breakfast before going on to produce the show.[1]
Richard Marson's book celebrating fifty years ofBlue Peter also comments that Lovejoy auditioned as a presenter in the 1990s.[2]
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Lovejoy began hosting and producing football showSoccer AM onSky Television in 1996, withHelen Chamberlain. He remained on the show for eleven years.
Following the success ofSoccer AM, Lovejoy became a radioDJ, joiningXfm before moving toVirgin Radio, where he briefly presented a Sunday-afternoon show. He also hostedTim Lovejoy and the Allstars, a show similar toTFI Friday, onSky 1, where he chatted with celebrities, between performances from a variety of bands.
In 2006, Lovejoy was appointed as the co-host of the car showFifth Gear onFive for two series.
Lovejoy announced on 5 June, 2007 that he would be leavingSoccer AM after eleven years.[3]
Following his departure fromSoccer AM, Lovejoy joinedBBC Radio 5 Live as the Wednesday night host of its football phone-in show6-0-6 though he was dropped in 2009.[4] He also presented the UK edition ofFive'sMajor League Soccer magazine showDavid Beckham's Soccer USA
In 2008, Lovejoy launched an internet TV channel called Channel Bee. As of 20 November 2009, the website has been taken down.[5]
In February 2010, Lovejoy guest presented an episode ofBlue Peter 12 years after auditioning for the show. A clip of Lovejoy's original audition was shown during the programme.[6]
Lovejoy participated in the 2011 series ofCelebrity MasterChef.
From 2006 until 2012, Lovejoy co-presented the Sunday morning TV programmeSomething for the Weekend onBBC2, opposite chefSimon Rimmer and various female co-hosts includingLouise Redknapp (previous co-hosts includeAmanda Hamilton andCaroline Flack).[7]
The show centred on cookery, with celebrity guests assisting in the preparation of easy recipes, and viewers encouraged to make the same dishes at home. It also had regular segments on cocktails, gadgets, and 'guess the year' based on old pop and news clips.
It was reported in January 2012 that the show, which in 2011 ran as a 46 × 90-minute series, had fallen foul of the BBC's Delivering Quality First cuts because of its unfortunate scheduling on BBC 2 during the day, despite consistently high ratings. The show ended in March, and an online campaign was launched to save the programme.[8]
On 25 March 2012, Lovejoy and Rimmer began hosting a new show forChannel 4,Sunday Brunch.[9][10] The series started one week after the final episode ofSomething for the Weekend.
In 2014, Lovejoy and Rimmer presented a short-lived spin-off series calledDaily Brunch, airing Monday to Fridays from 10 am. The show lasted for just eight weeks.[11]
In August 2013, Lovejoy began hosting the Saturday morningBT Sports Panel (BTSP) show of predictions, previews and reviews – a format similar to his formerSoccer AM days.
The two other books are linked to his TV series;Lazy Brunch, 'co-authored' with chefSimon Rimmer (Quadrille Publishing, London, 2008) andSomething 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) andTim Lovejoy's Football Managers Uncut – A Guide to the Game's Greatest Gaffers (2008).
His bookLovejoy on Football was not critically well received.Taylor Parkes in monthly football magazineWhen Saturday Comes described it as "tedious in the extreme ... Hopelessly banal and nauseatingly self-assured, smirkingly unfunny ... There’s something sinister here, too: beamingly positive, thrilled by wealth, too pleased with himself to ask awkward questions."[12]
In 2017 Lovejoy launchedDear Lovejoy, originally an agony uncle podcast, but later evolving into a series of interviews.[13]
Lovejoy married Jade in 2002 and has twin girls from the marriage, born in 2002. Lovejoy was in a relationship with English netball playerTamsin Greenway. She gave birth to the couple's first child together, a daughter, on 22 May 2013.[14] In May 2016, Lovejoy announced that this relationship had ended.
In 2009, Lovejoy was named byThe Daily Telegraph as the 49th most eligible bachelor in Britain.[15]
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