good riddance

[anny road]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2095733,00.html

 

Tim Lovejoy is leaving as presenter of Sky Sports show Soccer AM after 10 years, bringing to an end one of the longest-running screen partnerships on UK TV, with co-host Helen Chamberlain.

Lovejoy is understood to be leaving Soccer AM to present a new entertainment show for Simon Fuller's 19 TV.

 

He is said to be on verge of signing a deal with Mr Fuller to host a new celebrity TV show that will have a strong internet element

 

Lovejoy is understood to have already filmed a pilot for the new show, which 19 TV is pitching to various UK broadcasters.

He is also believed to be planning to take a handful of colleagues to his new show from Soccer AM, which attracts around 300,000 viewers to Sky Sports 1 every Saturday morning.

 

However, a Sky Sports spokesman confirmed that Soccer AM would be returning with Chamberlain and a new co-presenter at the start of the 2007-08 football season.

 

"Tim goes with our best wishes and we'd like to thank him for his work on Soccer AM. We understand that he wants a change of direction," the spokesman added.

 

Among those who form part of Soccer AM's "zoo TV" on-screen team are interviewer Peter Dale, known on the show as Tubes, and John Fendley, known to viewers as Fenners.

 

Other Soccer AM regulars include Joe Worsley, also known as Sheephead, and James Long, nicknamed Rocket.

 

An announcement about Lovejoy's move to 19 TV is expected "imminently", according to a source close to the Soccer AM presenter.

 

"He is close to signing a deal with a broadcaster for a pilot which would mean he would have to stop presenting Soccer AM," the source added. "He thinks it's time to branch out."

 

Lovejoy has also co-presented Channel Five's motoring show Fifth Gear and last year fronted a documentary on David Beckham for ITV1, A Footballer's Story, for which he spent five months following the then England captain in the run-up to the World Cup.

 

The success of Soccer AM has led to several other spin-offs for Lovejoy, including stints as a DJ on Xfm and a Sky One music and chat-based TV programme, Showtime, which was dropped after just one series.

[Gunga Din]

apparantly Romario has packed it in too

[Stevie H]

[anny road]

wayne...youre gonna get a slap tomorrow

 

Steve...i cant wait for smoking to be banned in pubs

[David Hodgson]

wayne...youre gonna get a slap tomorrow

 

Steve...i cant wait for smoking to be banned in pubs

 

Why do we have a problem with him ...? ? cos he supports Chelsea !!?? ....FFS

[Joxer]

I heard Neil Ruddock could be taking his spot.

[fyds]

Why do we have a problem with him ...? ? cos he supports Chelsea !!?? ....FFS

No, because he's an awkward, unfunny, talentless gimp with no wit, charm, timing or delivery....and he supports Chelsea.

[MikeK88]

I liked him, it was the way his jokes are completely s*** that makes him funny.

[fyds]

So he's a sort of 'anti-comedy'...or you're a total nit.

[sean]

He just doesn't register. No particular like or dislike for him, that'd be a waste of energy.

[anny road]

Why do we have a problem with him ...? ? cos he supports Chelsea !!?? ....FFS

 

 

no becuase he is an unfunny c*** who thinks he is hilarious

[theredfella]

Don't really mind him to be honest. Not the funniest fella on the box but certainly not the worst either.

[Guest MeetMeAtTheShanklyGates]

The main offender on that programme is Helen Chamberlain - a talentless mook who thinks that trying to act like a 'ladette' is somehow attractive. P**s poor

[Stanley Leisure]

Interesting fact about Helen Chamberlin

 

She's a c...

 

Not that actually - she's so afraid of heights that she refuses to go above the first floor of a building.

 

That and she has a mot like a barber's floor.

[Bigal]

tim lovejoy is actually a watford fan, he used to be a show with danny baker (i think) and he used always be wearing a watford shirt

[Cobs]

he watched the Champions League final in The Greyhound

 

wanted us to win

 

nice bloke by all accounts

Edited June 15, 2007 by Cobs

[Bigal]

CLANG!!!!!

[sean]

he watched the Champions League final in The Greyhound

 

wanted us to win

 

nice bloke by all accounts

 

 

Chelsea Fan!!

[Stevie H]

Interesting fact about Helen Chamberlin

 

She's a c...

 

Not that actually - she's so afraid of heights that she refuses to go above the first floor of a building.

 

That and she has a mot like a barber's floor.

LOL!

 

soccer am is an appalling programme.

[Gilps]

LOL!

 

soccer am is an appalling programme.

 

How can you say that? Humour stolen from a 10 year old copy of Loaded isn't tired and pathetic at all.

[Cobs]

Chelsea Fan!!

yes, he is that.