Timmy Mallett occurs as previous children's TV presenter and broadcaster who achieved cult status in the UK during the 1980s.

Mallett is virtually all notable for his striking ocular style, involving aloud shirts, comedy glasses & the jumbo foam mallet he carries sustaining him, too when his 'dead brilliant!' & 'bleurgh!' catchphrases.

the boy of a vicar from either Hyde within Cheshire he first off attended Hyde Grammar School. His media career began when he was a student at the University of Warwick, where he worked for the student radio station, Radio Warwick. Fallowing graduating by using the history degree, he embarked on a master's degree in history at Keble College, University of Oxford. He shortly landed the job at BBC Radio Oxford &, after the instance juggling two his academician & broadcasting pursuits, chose to pursue the media career and dropped away from his master's course. He shortly moved to Manchester's Piccadilly Radio where his energetic style won him numerous fans & Sony Awards.

However it was inside TV that he saw his large profits. Within 1984 he became a presenter of Wide Awake Club, a recently Saturday morning toddlers's programme in ITV's breakfast station, TV-am. Mallett's personality come to dominate a indicate to such an extent that while TV-am detected itself lacking a school holidays programme fallowing the low of Roland Rat to the BBC, he was offered a risk to present the replacement solo. the replacement, a spin-byproduct of Wide Awake Club, was known as Wacaday (based on a addition of 'aday' to the initials 'WAC' for Wide Awake Club) & began broadcasting inside 1985.

Wacaday was possibly additional successful than its parent. A programme was characterized by games like 'Mallett's Mallet', in which contestants were hit on top a head by his noted mallet for contracting answers wrong. The talking mini version of the mallet known as Pinky Punky was introduced & shortly became one of Mallett's constituted crony along using Magic, his best-loved cocatiel.

At a height of his fame, Mallett was and then successful that there was an official magazine known as A Utterly Brilliant Timmy Mallett devoted to him. Mallett formed a band Bombalurina and released a only 'Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini'. A song, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, entered a UK stock & index charts at total Twenty-three, rose to Long dozen the next week, so to Tercet and eventually to first in August 19 1990, where it stayed for triad weeks. To the higher degree 1,000,000 copies of the lone were sold around the UK prior to it went in to become the hit in above a xii supplementary countries. Thomas more, less successful, singles inside the similar vein (covers of novelty records) followed also as an album, ''Huggin' an' the Kissin'.

A second memorable moment occurred whilst Mallett met a so-Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher - and hit her on top a head by using his gargantuan mallet.

Wacaday'' ended inside 1992 when TV-am lost its licence. Since so Mallett has processed exclusively limited TV appearances, preferring to concentrate in his behind-a-camera career centred around his production company, Brilliant TV.

Too when his broadcasting act, Mallett tours very much of students' unions, performing for students who remember watching Wacaday when they were youngsters. He besides regularly performs around panto.

Mallett briefly returned to a limelight at the prevent of 2001 when he rescued the woman world health organization experienced fall under freezing waters at a marina around Hartlepool.

At the moment, Mallett presents a Radio Indicate in BBC Radio Berkshire, on Sundays from either 10am-1pm.

Television programmes

Wide Awake Club (1984-1990) Wacaday (1985-1992) Absolutely Brilliant (1989-1991) About the World around Eighty Seconds (1993-1994) Way to Last (1996-1997) Timmy Towers (1997-????)