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Timmy Mallett

Timmy Mallett (born 18 October 1955[citation needed]) is an English television presenter, broadcaster, author and artist. He is known for his striking visual style, colourful glasses, colourful shirts, and giant pink foam mallet, known as "Mallett's Mallet", as well as his "utterly brilliant!" and "blaaah!" catchphrases.

Timmy Mallett
Mallett in Market Harborough 2008
Born
Timothy Luke Mallett

(1955-10-18) 18 October 1955 (age 68)
Alma materUniversity of Warwick
Occupation(s)Radio/television presenter, artist
Years active1982–present
Spouse
Lynda Bingham
(m. 1990)
Children1
Websitetimmymallett.co.uk

Career

Radio

Mallett was born in Marple, Cheshire. He attended Rose Hill Primary School in Marple, Earnseat Prep School in Arnside, and Hyde Grammar School.

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 Capital Midlands) 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 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.

Mallett won two Radio Academy Awards for Best Local Radio Presenter (1984) and Best Pop Music Show (1986).[citation needed]

Television

In 1983, Timmy joined TV-am, where he interviewed the musical act and bands of the day for the pop news strand, Timmy also presented Summer Run on Saturday mornings for the new breakfast television station. In Autumn 1984, he became a presenter of Wide Awake Club, a new Saturday morning children's programme on TV-am, with co-presenters Michaela Strachan, James Baker, Arabella Warner and Tommy Boyd. Future actor Mike Myers also had a minor role alongside Neil Mullarkey. TV-am found itself lacking a school holidays programme after Roland Rat moved to the BBC, and he was offered the chance to present it. The replacement, a spin-off of Wide Awake Club, was called Wacaday (based on the addition of 'aday' to the initials 'WAC' for Wide Awake Club) and began broadcasting in October 1985.

In the Wide Awake Club, contestants were hit over the head by his famed mallet for getting answers wrong. In later years, a talking mini-version of the mallet called "Pinky Punky" was introduced (the name chosen after Mallett asked viewers to write in with their ideas) and soon became one of Mallett's established sidekicks along with Magic, his pet cockatiel. Wacaday ended in 1992 when TV-am lost its franchise to broadcast.[1]

Since then, Mallett has run his own production company, Brilliant TV.[2]

In 1993, Mallett starred in The Children's Channel's Around the World in 80 seconds as Captain Everything.[3]

From 1997 until 2002, he acted in Timmy Towers, for CITV.[4]

Other

In 2002, 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. West Ham United withdrew the item.[5]

In 2004, he was a stand-in contestant for the ITV1 jungle-based reality series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. In 2008, he entered the show as a full contestant.

In 2008, Mallett appeared on Big Brother's Little Brother.[6]

In September 2008, Mallett appeared on the BBC One politics show This Week talking about being positive when things get tough.[7]

In November 2008, Mallett appeared in the eighth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. He entered the show by being captured in an oversized net and imprisoned in jungle jail. The celebrities were given an option to trade their possessions for him and David Van Day to enter. They refused. On 30 November 2008, 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.[citation needed]

Music

With producers Nigel Wright and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mallett formed the band Bombalurina, named after a character in Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. Along with female vocalists and dancers Dawn Andrews and Annie Dunkley, they released a cover of the single "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini".[8] It reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 1990.[9]

Follow up single "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat" reached number 18 in the UK in December 1990.[10]

The Bombalurina album Huggin' And A Kissin' with 14 tracks was released in December 1990.[11]

Ditching the Bombalurina name, but again working with producer Nigel Wright, Mallett released a cover of Kenny's "The Bump" under the name M.C. Mallett in 1991. This failed to chart.[12]

For "Tommy's Campaign", Mallett recorded "The Laughing Policeman" with producer George Martin in 1991.[13]

Under the name Del Costa, Mallett released a megamix version of "Hot Hot Hot" in summer 1992.[14]

In 2008, Mallett featured in Skepta's video "Rolex Sweep"[15] and accompanied Skepta to the MOBO nominations.[16]

In 2013, Mallett recorded Gilbert O'Sullivan's hit "Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day".[17]

Mallett's "Summer Holiday" video was made in 2014.[18]

Stage shows

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.[citation needed]

In December 2016, he appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal Windsor.[citation needed]

While staying in Hartlepool, Mallett rescued a woman from the marina in December 2001.[19]

He toured the Pontins holiday camps with the "Utterly Brilliant Timmy Mallett Show" in 2014.[20]

He toured Park Holidays UK's sites doing The Timmy Mallett Show in 2016.[citation needed]

Art

Mallett is an oil painter and acrylic and watercolour artist whose work sells in galleries across UK and Europe.[21] His work is distributed and published in limited editions by De Montfort Fine Art[22][failed verification] and Buckingham Fine Art[23][failed verification]

In 2002, he painted 50 portraits for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee including Wendy Craig, Jim Rosenthal, Lorraine Kelly, Ulrika Jonsson and Sir Clive Woodward.[24]

In 2012, Mallett won the Best up and coming artist Fine Art Trade Guild.[25]

In 2012, Mallett painted a telephone box in Windsor with likenesses of the Queen, Prince Harry and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.[26]

In the summer of 2018, Mallett discovered and painted his father's secret Galloway bridge scene from September 1966.[27]

Selected television programmes

Sport

Mallett is a supporter of Oxford United[citation needed] and Maidenhead United.[28]

Mallett is a long-distance cycling adventurer. In 2022, he completed a solo circumnavigation of the coast of Britain, following in the footsteps of painter J. M. W. Turner.[29] There is an online map from the Ordnance Survey showing the route, paintings and videos around nearly 5000 miles of coastline. [30]

He rode through Northern Ireland in May 2015,[31] Lincolnshire in summer 2015[32] and through Cumbria in May 2016.[33]

In spring 2018, Mallett cycled alone from home in England through France and Spain along the pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela Finisterre and back, a distance of over 4000 km, inspired by his older brother Martin with Downs syndrome.[34] The story forms the basis for his memoirs Utterly Brilliant: My life's Journey, published in 2020 by SPCK, which also includes some of the paintings produced on this adventure.[35]

References

  1. ^ Wacaday – Index. Brillianttv.co.uk. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.
  2. ^ Brilliant TV. Brilliant TV. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.
  3. ^ Timmy Mallett – television, Around the World in 80 seconds!. Brillianttv.co.uk. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.
  4. ^ Timmy Mallett – television, Timmy Towers. Brillianttv.co.uk. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.
  5. ^ "BBC News: West Ham 'hammer' knocked on the head, 2002". 23 November 2002. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  6. ^ Timmy Mallett – television, Big Brother's Little Brother 2008. Brillianttv.co.uk. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.
  7. ^ "BBC This week: Timmy's Upside to the downturn, 2008". BBC News. 19 September 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  8. ^ "10 people you totally forgot scored a number one single". Smooth Radio. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  9. ^ UK number one singles of 1990
  10. ^ "Timmy Mallett – recordings – 7 little girls". brillianttv.co.uk.
  11. ^ "Timmy Mallett – recordings – Huggin an a Kissin". brillianttv.co.uk.
  12. ^ ""The Bump"". 45cat.com.
  13. ^ "Timmy Mallett – recordings – The Laughing Policeman". brillianttv.co.uk.
  14. ^ "Timmy Mallett – recordings – Hot Hot Hot". brillianttv.co.uk.
  15. ^ MistaJam: Timmy Mallet gets in on the Rolex Sweep. BBC (26 April 2008). Retrieved on 2013-02-18.
  16. ^ UK NEWS: MORE MOBO 2008 NOMINATIONS LAUNCH PICS / FULL LIST OF NOMINEES « WWW.MADNEWSUK.COM. Madnews.wordpress.com. Retrieved on 18 February 2013.
  17. ^ "Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day(Wacaday!)" – via YouTube.
  18. ^ "Summer holiday" – via YouTube.
  19. ^ "Timmy Mallett – Theatre – Cinderella, Billingham – rescue". brillianttv.co.uk.
  20. ^ "Entertainment Breaks". pontins.com.
  21. ^ "Mallett's Palette". mallettspalette.co.uk.
  22. ^ "DeMontfort Fine Art". demontfortfineart.co.uk.
  23. ^ "All work : Timmy Mallett". Buckingham Fine Art Publishers.
  24. ^ "Cookham Jubilee – Categories – Mallett's Palette". mallettspalette.co.uk.
  25. ^ "Timmy Mallett". buy-fineart.com.
  26. ^ "In pictures: Timmy Mallett swaps mallett for palette". BBC News. 7 December 2013.
  27. ^ "Timmy Mallett completes Galloway bridge painting". BBC News.
  28. ^ "Manic Timmy Mallett toasts Maidenhead's dramatic equaliser". BT.com.
  29. ^ "Timmy Mallett cycles Coast of Britain | Blog". 17 June 2022.
  30. ^ "Timmy Mallett cycles Britain".
  31. ^ "Timmy Mallett in Antrim".
  32. ^ "Timmy Mallett in Lincolnshire".
  33. ^ "Timmy Mallett visits Barrow and Ulverston on Cumbria cycling tour". The Mail. 4 May 2016.
  34. ^ "My Camino Blog". Timmy Mallett.
  35. ^ "'Life goes a gazillion miles an hour. You have to fill it': Timmy Mallett on what he did next". The Guardian. 30 June 2020.

External links

  • Timmy Mallett at IMDb
  • Timmy Mallett official site timmymallett.co.uk
  • Mallett's Palette official art site Mallettspalette.co.uk
  • Wacaday TV show site Wacaday.co.uk

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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Timmy Mallett news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2021 Learn how and when to remove this message Timmy Mallett born 18 October 1955 citation needed is an English television presenter broadcaster author and artist He is known for his striking visual style colourful glasses colourful shirts and giant pink foam mallet known as Mallett s Mallet as well as his utterly brilliant and blaaah catchphrases Timmy MallettMallett in Market Harborough 2008BornTimothy Luke Mallett 1955 10 18 18 October 1955 age 68 Marple Stockport Cheshire EnglandAlma materUniversity of WarwickOccupation s Radio television presenter artistYears active1982 presentSpouseLynda Bingham m 1990 wbr Children1Websitetimmymallett wbr co wbr uk Contents 1 Career 1 1 Radio 1 2 Television 1 3 Other 2 Music 3 Stage shows 4 Art 5 Selected television programmes 6 Sport 7 References 8 External linksCareerRadio This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately Find sources Timmy Mallett news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2018 Learn how and when to remove this message Mallett was born in Marple Cheshire He attended Rose Hill Primary School in Marple Earnseat Prep School in Arnside and Hyde Grammar School 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 Capital Midlands 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 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 Mallett won two Radio Academy Awards for Best Local Radio Presenter 1984 and Best Pop Music Show 1986 citation needed Television In 1983 Timmy joined TV am where he interviewed the musical act and bands of the day for the pop news strand Timmy also presented Summer Run on Saturday mornings for the new breakfast television station In Autumn 1984 he became a presenter of Wide Awake Club a new Saturday morning children s programme on TV am with co presenters Michaela Strachan James Baker Arabella Warner and Tommy Boyd Future actor Mike Myers also had a minor role alongside Neil Mullarkey TV am found itself lacking a school holidays programme after Roland Rat moved to the BBC and he was offered the chance to present it The replacement a spin off of Wide Awake Club was called Wacaday based on the addition of aday to the initials WAC for Wide Awake Club and began broadcasting in October 1985 In the Wide Awake Club contestants were hit over the head by his famed mallet for getting answers wrong In later years a talking mini version of the mallet called Pinky Punky was introduced the name chosen after Mallett asked viewers to write in with their ideas and soon became one of Mallett s established sidekicks along with Magic his pet cockatiel Wacaday ended in 1992 when TV am lost its franchise to broadcast 1 Since then Mallett has run his own production company Brilliant TV 2 In 1993 Mallett starred in The Children s Channel s Around the World in 80 seconds as Captain Everything 3 From 1997 until 2002 he acted in Timmy Towers for CITV 4 Other In 2002 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 West Ham United withdrew the item 5 In 2004 he was a stand in contestant for the ITV1 jungle based reality series I m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here In 2008 he entered the show as a full contestant In 2008 Mallett appeared on Big Brother s Little Brother 6 In September 2008 Mallett appeared on the BBC One politics show This Week talking about being positive when things get tough 7 In November 2008 Mallett appeared in the eighth series of I m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here He entered the show by being captured in an oversized net and imprisoned in jungle jail The celebrities were given an option to trade their possessions for him and David Van Day to enter They refused On 30 November 2008 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 citation needed MusicWith producers Nigel Wright and Andrew Lloyd Webber Mallett formed the band Bombalurina named after a character in Lloyd Webber s musical Cats Along with female vocalists and dancers Dawn Andrews and Annie Dunkley they released a cover of the single Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 8 It reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in August 1990 9 Follow up single Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat reached number 18 in the UK in December 1990 10 The Bombalurina album Huggin And A Kissin with 14 tracks was released in December 1990 11 Ditching the Bombalurina name but again working with producer Nigel Wright Mallett released a cover of Kenny s The Bump under the name M C Mallett in 1991 This failed to chart 12 For Tommy s Campaign Mallett recorded The Laughing Policeman with producer George Martin in 1991 13 Under the name Del Costa Mallett released a megamix version of Hot Hot Hot in summer 1992 14 In 2008 Mallett featured in Skepta s video Rolex Sweep 15 and accompanied Skepta to the MOBO nominations 16 In 2013 Mallett recorded Gilbert O Sullivan s hit Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day 17 Mallett s Summer Holiday video was made in 2014 18 Stage showsMallett 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 citation needed In December 2016 he appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal Windsor citation needed While staying in Hartlepool Mallett rescued a woman from the marina in December 2001 19 He toured the Pontins holiday camps with the Utterly Brilliant Timmy Mallett Show in 2014 20 He toured Park Holidays UK s sites doing The Timmy Mallett Show in 2016 citation needed ArtMallett is an oil painter and acrylic and watercolour artist whose work sells in galleries across UK and Europe 21 His work is distributed and published in limited editions by De Montfort Fine Art 22 failed verification and Buckingham Fine Art 23 failed verification In 2002 he painted 50 portraits for Queen Elizabeth II s Golden Jubilee including Wendy Craig Jim Rosenthal Lorraine Kelly Ulrika Jonsson and Sir Clive Woodward 24 In 2012 Mallett won the Best up and coming artist Fine Art Trade Guild 25 In 2012 Mallett painted a telephone box in Windsor with likenesses of the Queen Prince Harry and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge 26 In the summer of 2018 Mallett discovered and painted his father s secret Galloway bridge scene from September 1966 27 Selected television programmesTV AM 1983 1984 Oxford Road Show 1984 Wide Awake Club 1984 1988 Wacaday 1985 1992 Utterly Brilliant 1989 1991 Questions 1990 BBC Two education series Around the World in 80 Seconds 1993 1994 Way to Go 1996 1997 Timmy Towers 1997 2002 The Beeps 2007 I m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here 2008 series SportMallett is a supporter of Oxford United citation needed and Maidenhead United 28 Mallett is a long distance cycling adventurer In 2022 he completed a solo circumnavigation of the coast of Britain following in the footsteps of painter J M W Turner 29 There is an online map from the Ordnance Survey showing the route paintings and videos around nearly 5000 miles of coastline 30 He rode through Northern Ireland in May 2015 31 Lincolnshire in summer 2015 32 and through Cumbria in May 2016 33 In spring 2018 Mallett cycled alone from home in England through France and Spain along the pilgrimage route the Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela Finisterre and back a distance of over 4000 km inspired by his older brother Martin with Downs syndrome 34 The story forms the basis for his memoirs Utterly Brilliant My life s Journey published in 2020 by SPCK which also includes some of the paintings produced on this adventure 35 References Wacaday Index Brillianttv co uk Retrieved on 18 February 2013 Brilliant TV Brilliant TV Retrieved on 18 February 2013 Timmy Mallett television Around the World in 80 seconds Brillianttv co uk Retrieved on 18 February 2013 Timmy Mallett television Timmy Towers Brillianttv co uk Retrieved on 18 February 2013 BBC News West Ham hammer knocked on the head 2002 23 November 2002 Retrieved 6 January 2010 Timmy Mallett television Big Brother s Little Brother 2008 Brillianttv co uk Retrieved on 18 February 2013 BBC This week Timmy s Upside to the downturn 2008 BBC News 19 September 2008 Retrieved 6 January 2010 10 people you totally forgot scored a number one single Smooth Radio 9 July 2019 Retrieved 11 July 2019 UK number one singles of 1990 Timmy Mallett recordings 7 little girls brillianttv co uk Timmy Mallett recordings Huggin an a Kissin brillianttv co uk The Bump 45cat com Timmy Mallett recordings The Laughing Policeman brillianttv co uk Timmy Mallett recordings Hot Hot Hot brillianttv co uk MistaJam Timmy Mallet gets in on the Rolex Sweep BBC 26 April 2008 Retrieved on 2013 02 18 UK NEWS MORE MOBO 2008 NOMINATIONS LAUNCH PICS FULL LIST OF NOMINEES WWW MADNEWSUK COM Madnews wordpress com Retrieved on 18 February 2013 Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day Wacaday via YouTube Summer holiday via YouTube Timmy Mallett Theatre Cinderella Billingham rescue brillianttv co uk Entertainment Breaks pontins com Mallett s Palette mallettspalette co uk DeMontfort Fine Art demontfortfineart co uk All work Timmy Mallett Buckingham Fine Art Publishers Cookham Jubilee Categories Mallett s Palette mallettspalette co uk Timmy Mallett buy fineart com In pictures Timmy Mallett swaps mallett for palette BBC News 7 December 2013 Timmy Mallett completes Galloway bridge painting BBC News Manic Timmy Mallett toasts Maidenhead s dramatic equaliser BT com Timmy Mallett cycles Coast of Britain Blog 17 June 2022 Timmy Mallett cycles Britain Timmy Mallett in Antrim Timmy Mallett in Lincolnshire Timmy Mallett visits Barrow and Ulverston on Cumbria cycling tour The Mail 4 May 2016 My Camino Blog Timmy Mallett Life goes a gazillion miles an hour You have to fill it Timmy Mallett on what he did next The Guardian 30 June 2020 External linksTimmy Mallett at IMDb Timmy Mallett official site timmymallett co uk Mallett s Palette official art site Mallettspalette co uk Wacaday TV show site Wacaday co uk Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Timmy Mallett amp oldid 1219977703, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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