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 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 .
Richard Marson's book celebrating fifty years of Blue Peter also comments that Lovejoy auditioned as a presenter in the 1990s.
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, and as host the show enjoyed its best years, much down to Lovejoy's dry wit and sense of humour, with fans of the show repeatedly calling for Lovejoy to return as presenter.
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 One, on which 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.
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. He also presented the 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 an internet TV channel called Channel Bee. As of 20th November 2009, this website was taken down.
In February 2010 Lovejoy guest presented an episode of Blue Peter 12 years after auditioning in the past. A clip of Lovejoy's original audition was shown during the programme.
Tim is also a regular presenter on FATV, owned and run by The Football Association FATV is the video content of the FA's website www.thefa.com
Lovejoy currently does the voiceover for the William Hill TV adverts.
Lovejoy has put his name to three books and 2 DVDs. His first book was Lovejoy on Football: One Man's Passion for the Most Important Subject in the World (published by Century, London, 2007).
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).
Tim Lovejoy married "Jade" in 2002 and has twin girls from the marriage; Grace and Rose. The couple are now separated, allegedly due to Tim's "constant partying and obsession with Football".
He was linked with model; Ruth Reynolds
In 2009 he was named by The Daily Telegraph as the 49th most eligible bachelor in Britain.
Tim is a keen supporter of Chelsea F.C and often cites his favourite band as The Specials
