English television presenter (b.1968)
This article is about the television presenter. For the character from
The Simpsons
, see
Reverend Lovejoy
.
Tim Lovejoy
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Born
| Timothy Paul Lovejoy
(
1968-03-28
)
28 March 1968
(age 56)
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Occupation
| Television presenter
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Years active
| 1994?present
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Spouse
|
Jade Lovejoy
(
m.
2002;
div.
2006)
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Partner(s)
| Tamsin Greenway
(2012?2016)
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Children
| 3
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Website
| Official website
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Timothy Paul Lovejoy
(born 28 March 1968) is an English
television presenter
best known for hosting Saturday morning
football
programme
Soccer AM
with
Helen Chamberlain
for over a decade and
BT Sports Panel
on Saturday mornings. He presents
Sunday Brunch
on
Channel 4
.
Career
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Early career
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Lovejoy began his television career as a covering
VJ
for
MTV
. He then joined
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.
[2]
Soccer AM
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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 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 show
Fifth Gear
on
Five
for one series.
Lovejoy announced on 5 June 2007 that he would be leaving
Soccer AM
after eleven years.
[3]
Post-
Soccer AM
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Following his departure from
Soccer AM
, Lovejoy joined
BBC Radio 5 Live
as the Wednesday night host of its football phone-in show
6-0-6
though he was dropped in 2009.
[4]
He also presented the UK edition of
Five
's
Major League Soccer
magazine show
David 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 of
Blue 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 of
Celebrity MasterChef
.
Something for the Weekend
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From 2006 until 2012, Lovejoy co-presented the Sunday morning TV programme
Something for the Weekend
on
BBC2
, opposite chef
Simon Rimmer
and various female co-hosts including
Louise Redknapp
(previous co-hosts include
Amanda Hamilton
and
Caroline 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]
Sunday Brunch
and
Daily Brunch
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On 25 March 2012, Lovejoy and Rimmer began hosting a new show for
Channel 4
,
Sunday Brunch
.
[9]
[10]
The series started one week after the final episode of
Something for the Weekend
.
In 2014, Lovejoy and Rimmer presented a short-lived spin-off series called
Daily Brunch
, airing Monday to Fridays from 10
am. The show lasted for just eight weeks.
[11]
BT Sport
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In August 2013, Lovejoy began hosting the Saturday morning
BT Sports Panel
(
BTSP
) show of predictions, previews and reviews ? a format similar to his former
Soccer AM
days.
Books
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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).
His book
Lovejoy on Football
was not critically well received.
Taylor Parkes
in monthly football magazine
When 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]
Podcast
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In 2017 Lovejoy launched
Dear Lovejoy
, originally an agony uncle podcast, but later evolving into a series of interviews.
[13]
Personal life
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Lovejoy married Jade in 2002 and has twin girls from the marriage, born in 2002. Lovejoy was in a relationship with English netball player
Tamsin 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 by
The Daily Telegraph
as the 49th most eligible bachelor in Britain.
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References
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External links
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