Toby Anstis

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Toby Anstis
Toby Anstis in 2007
Born	(1970-12-14) 14 December 1970 (age 42) Northampton

Toby Anstis (b. 14 December 1970) is a radio presenter on Global Radio owned Heart. He presents his morning show Monday to Saturday 10am – 1pm across the Heart branded network. Since 5 January 2009, his show has been networked around the country to those former local stations now branded as Heart. It is currently the most listened to commercial radio show in the UK. He was nominated for Presenter Of The Year at the Arqiva UK commercial radio awards in London in 2011.

Education[edit]

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. ^[1]

Career[edit]

On television he originally made his name as a presenter of The Broom Cupboard on Children's BBC each weekday afternoon from April 1992 to September 1995. He hosted The O-Zone music show on BBC2. He presented at Liberty Radio hosting the breakfast show, and was also a presenter for various programmes on Challenge TV (such as TV Scrabble), before moving to Heart 106.2 in 2002. In 2004, he appeared in the LivingTV reality TV show, I'm Famous and Frightened!

Anstis made his stage debut as Teen Angel in the West End production of Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre on 25 January 2010.

Career highlights[edit]

Co-hosted Children In Need, The National Lottery Live and Grandstand on BBC1, 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 1992 he took part in a charity fun run for Help the Aged while dressed as Jimmy Savile. He raised over £4000.

In 1994, he took part in an episode of Challenge Anneka, where he contributed a Spaghetti Bolognese recipe to a book in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. In July 2006, he appeared as a pundit on Big Brother's Big Mouth – one of the several supporting shows for the Big Brother output as well as being a guest on ITV's The Mint.

In October 2006, he appeared on Five's The All Star Talent Show dancing to Justin Timberlake's SexyBack.

In November 2006, he took part in the sixth series of the ITV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Despite being an early favourite with the bookmakers, Anstis 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^[2] 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 Neill.

In 2009, he featured on Ready Steady Cook and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. Other work include being an ambassador for The Prince's Trust and DJing at clubs all over the UK and Ibiza.

in 2010 he made a cameo on the BBC Three series Mongrels.

In 2011, he appeared on the BBC quiz show Eggheads and was the first ever honorary 'Loose Man' on ITV Loose Women.

In 2012 he won BBC 1's Pointless Celebrities and competed in Celebrity Come Dine With Me 's Christmas Special where he restled with a giant spit roast turkey.

In January 2013 he was reported on the front pages of the tabloids when he was pictured coming out of a restaurant with Priscilla Presley.

He currently lives in Hammersmith, West London.

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