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| Timmy Mallett | |
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Mallett in Market Harborough 2008.
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Timmy Mallett 18 October 1955 Marple, Cheshire, England |
| Occupation | Radio/Television presenter, artist |
| Spouse(s) | Lynda (since 1990) |
| Website | www |
Timmy Mallett (born 18 October 1955) is an English TV presenter, broadcaster, and artist. He is known for his striking visual style, colourful glasses, loud shirts, and giant pink foam mallet, known as "Mallett's Mallet", as well as his "utterly brilliant!" and "blaaah!" catchphrases.
Mallett was born in Marple, Cheshire. His media career started while he was a student at the University of Warwick where he worked on the student radio station, Radio Warwick. After graduating with a degree in History he started working at BBC Radio Oxford. He later moved to Centre Radio (now Leicester Sound) as the station's launch presenter. He also presented on Radio Luxembourg and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio. The programme he hosted at Piccadilly was Timmy on the Tranny, a popular weekday evening show that ran from 8.00pm–11.00pm and took its name from Mallett's lunchtime and later afternoon shows on Radio Oxford. Among Mallett's team of helpers were Chris Evans (known as 'Nobby Nolevel), Andy Bird (who played the pirate radio character 'Radio Diggle') and Karen Walsh (the original 'Aunty Boney kneecaps'). This led to Mallett co-presenting the Manchester-based BBC2 youth music show Oxford Road Show for a year in 1984. In March 1985 he also stood in for David Jensen on the Network Chart.
Mallett won two Radio Academy Awards for Best Local Radio presenter (1984) and Best pop music show (1986).
The popular kids show presenter often refers to his time in the Royal Air Force as giving him the confidence to be in front of the television cameras. Joining in March 1980 he was trained at RAF Catterick and later joined the Royal Air Force Regiment, a small unit which specialised in airfield defence. Mallet spent four years at RAF Larbrook in Germany before leaving the RAF in 1984.
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