19 Facts About Tommy Boyd

Timothy Leslie "Tommy" Boyd was born on 14 December 1952 and is a British television and radio presenter.

Tommy Boyd gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as host of the children's television programmes Magpie, Wide Awake Club, and The Saturday Show.

Tommy Boyd expressed a desire to work in television from watching John Noakes present the children's programme Blue Peter on the BBC.

Tommy Boyd botched a pancake making routine on purpose that resembled Noakes' style which gained a round of applause from the camera crew, and landed the job.

Tommy Boyd presented Wide Awake Club on Saturday mornings from 1986 to 1990, and its Sunday spin-off WAC Extra, throughout the 1980s.

Between 1982 and 1985, Tommy Boyd fronted Central Television's Saturday morning kids TV show The Saturday Show alongside Isla St Clair who was later replaced by Bonnie Langford.

Tommy Boyd was the host of CITV between 1991 and 1993.

In 1993 and 1994, Tommy Boyd worked on The Children's Channel, a satellite television channel.

Tommy Boyd later hosted the weekend Nightline phone-in programme, replacing Jeremy Beadle as host on Sunday nights in June 1980.

Tommy Boyd returned to children's radio on LBC with a Sunday afternoon programme called Lazily Stacey, named after a fictional detective he had invented.

Tommy Boyd later co-presented the breakfast show with Anne Diamond, before finally leaving the station in 1999.

Tommy Boyd signed off each show by playing "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.

In February 1995, Tommy Boyd was amongst the inaugural line-up of presenters of the AM station Talksport until November 1998, when he lost his job in a reshuffle after it was taken over by a consortium led by former Sun newspaper editor Kelvin MacKenzie.

Tommy Boyd hosted a weekly professional wrestling show on Talksport called Talk Wrestling.

In May 2000, Tommy Boyd began to take calls straight to air and unscreened on Sunday nights which became known as The Human Zoo with co-presenter Asher Gould.

In 2004 Tommy Boyd joined BBC Southern Counties Radio, presenting a Saturday night show with co-host Allison Ferns, where he revived The Human Zoo and other more controversial aspects of his previous Talksport show.

On 19 May 2017, Tommy Boyd presented a one-off show on TalkRadio.

On 5 February 2023, Tommy Boyd returned to radio with a Sunday night show on Brighton's Regency Radio from 10:00 PM until 1:00 AM.

Tommy Boyd is joined by former Southern Sound presenters Nicky Keig-Shevlin and David Legge.