Tim Lovejoy
Born	28 March 1968 (1968 -03-28) (age 41)
Occupation	Television presenter
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Timothy Paul Lovejoy (born 28 March 1968 in Northwood, Middlesex, England) is a British television presenter, most famous for hosting Saturday morning football programme Soccer AM alongside Helen Chamberlain for over a decade. He is the father of twin girls, Grace and Rose and split from his wife in 2006

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Soccer AM years 1.3 Post-Soccer AM 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Early career

Tim Lovejoy began his career working in music as a merchandise manager for touring bands. He began his television career as a covering VJ for MTV UK. He then joined Planet 24, working as a researcher for The Big Breakfast before going on to produce the show ^[1]. He supports Chelsea.

Richard Marson's book celebrating fifty years of Blue Peter also comments that Lovejoy auditioned as a presenter in the 1990s.

[edit] Soccer AM years

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 popular 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 the co-host of the car show Fifth Gear on Five.

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.^[3] He also presented the popular 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, which features cooking, clips from classic programmes, gadget round-ups and cocktail-mixing.

In 2008, he launched a popular internet TV channel called Channel Bee.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• TF90M interview
• The Sun interview
• RDF Management profile
• Channelbee Website.

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