27 Facts About Timmy Mallett

Timmy Mallett was born on 18 October 1955 and is an English television presenter, broadcaster, author and artist.

Timmy Mallett's media career started while he was a student at the University of Warwick where he worked on the student radio station, Radio Warwick.

Timmy Mallett later moved to Centre Radio as the station's launch presenter.

Timmy Mallett presented on Radio Luxembourg and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio.

In 1982 Timmy was part of the "Stayin' Alive" team on BBC Radio 1.

Timmy Mallett won two Radio Academy Awards for Best Local Radio Presenter and Best Pop Music Show.

In 1983, Timmy Mallett joined TV-am, where he interviewed the musical act and bands of the day for the pop news strand, Timmy Mallett presented Summer Run on Saturday mornings for the new breakfast television station.

In later years, a talking mini-version of the mallet called "Pinky Punky" was introduced and soon became one of Timmy Mallett's established sidekicks along with Magic, his pet cockatiel.

Since then, Timmy Mallett has run his own production company, Brilliant TV.

In 1993, Timmy Mallett starred in The Children's Channel's Around the World in 80 seconds as Captain Everything.

In 2002, Timmy Mallett made West Ham United agree to stop selling copies of their mascot, Herbie the Hammer, in their club shop after he complained that it looked too similar to Pinky Punky.

In September 2008, Timmy Mallett appeared on the BBC One politics show This Week talking about being positive when things get tough.

In November 2008, Timmy Mallett appeared in the eighth series of I'm a Celebrity.

Timmy Mallett entered the show by being captured in an oversized net and imprisoned in jungle jail.

On 30 November 2008, Timmy Mallett was the fourth contestant eliminated from the show after being placed in the bottom two in the public voting and taking part in a play-off bush tucker eating trial with Brian Paddick.

For "Tommy's Campaign", Timmy Mallett recorded "The Laughing Policeman" with producer George Martin in 1991.

Under the name Del Costa, Timmy Mallett released a megamix version of "Hot Hot Hot" in summer 1992.

In 2008, Timmy Mallett featured in Skepta's video "Rolex Sweep" and accompanied Skepta to the MOBO nominations.

Timmy Mallett has appeared in pantomime in Lewisham theatre, Cliffs Pavilion Southend, Hexagon Reading, Derngate Northampton, Arena St Albans, Wyvern Swindon, Forum Billingham, Pavilion Worthing, Grand Pavilion Porthcawl, Playhouse Weston-super-Mare and Theatre Royal Windsor.

Timmy Mallett toured the Pontins holiday camps with the "Utterly Brilliant Timmy Mallett Show" in 2014.

Timmy Mallett toured Park Holidays UK's sites doing The Timmy Mallett Show in 2016.

Timmy Mallett is an oil painter and acrylic and watercolour artist whose work sells in galleries across UK and Europe.

Timmy Mallett's work is distributed and published in limited editions by De Montfort Fine Art and Buckingham Fine Art.

In 2012, Timmy Mallett won the Best up and coming artist Fine Art Trade Guild.

In 2012, Timmy Mallett painted a telephone box in Windsor with likenesses of the Queen, Prince Harry and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.

Timmy Mallett is a supporter of Oxford United and Maidenhead United.

Timmy Mallett rode through Northern Ireland in May 2015, Lincolnshire in summer 2015 and through Cumbria in May 2016.