Toby Anstis | |
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Toby Anstis in 2007
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Born |
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
14 December 1970
Occupation | Radio and television presenter |
Employer | Global Radio |
Toby Anstis (born 14 December 1970) is a British radio and television presenter on the Global Radio-owned Heart network, where he presents the mid-morning slot broadcast across the UK. Since January 2009, his show has been broadcast around the UK to the former local stations now branded as Heart.
Originally from Northampton, Anstis was educated at an all-boys school, Desborough School, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and later graduated in Psychology and Marketing from the University of Surrey Roehampton.
Anstis' first break came when he appeared in The Broom Cupboard on Children's BBC each weekday afternoon from April 1992 to September 1995. He then hosted The O-Zone music show on BBC2. Anstis then moved into radio, presenting for the Liberty Radio breakfast show, and was also a presenter for various programmes on Challenge (such as TV Scrabble), before moving to Heart FM in 2002.
In 2004, he appeared in the Living TV reality show, I'm Famous and Frightened!. Anstis co-hosted Children in Need, The National Lottery Live and Grandstand on BBC One, as well as Fan TC with Dannii Minogue and Electric Circus for Live & Kicking, and Bright Sparks. He also presented Trust Me – I'm a Holiday Rep on Channel 5 . In November 2006, he took part in the sixth series of the ITV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and was the first person to be voted out of the show, although it was reported the next day in various tabloids including The Sun that there had been a voting error and Dean Gaffney should have gone. In 2007, he was a judge on VH1's Wannabe and featured on The Killer In Me for ITV1 along with Fiona Phillips (GMTV), footballer John Barnes and political presenter Andrew Neil.