Biography: Tim Lovejoy and 6-0-6

Tim Lovejoy
Timothy Paul Lovejoy (born 28 March 1968), is a British television presenter, famous for his Saturday morning football programme on Sky Sports - Soccer AM - alongside co-host Helen Chamberlain. He is the father of twin girls, Grace and Rose and split from his wife in 2006.

Career
Tim Lovejoy joined Planet 24 working as a researcher for The Big Breakfast, before going on to produce the show.
After the success of Soccer AM, Lovejoy gained his own radio show on London's Xfm before moving to Virgin Radio, where he briefly presented a Sunday afternoon show once a week .
Lovejoy has also hosted Tim Lovejoy and the Allstars, a show similar to TFI Friday, on Sky One, where he chatted with celebrities along with performances from a variety of bands, from the Manic Street Preachers to The Bees, and including the first TV performance by Babyshambles.
Lovejoy was the co-host of Fifth Gear on Five in 2006.
Lovejoy is now also presenting a Sunday morning TV programme on BBC2 called 'Something for the Weekend, mainly based on cooking but also showing clips of other programmes, and has features such as gadget round ups and cocktail mixing tips.
It was announced on 5 June 2007 that Lovejoy would be leaving Soccer AM after 11 years.[1]
Following his departure from Soccer AM, it has been announced that Lovejoy will be joining BB Radio Five Live as host of the Wednesday night edition of its football phone-in show, 606. He will also host the UK edition of Five's new Major League Soccer magazine show David Beckham's Soccer USA.
He is also a fan of Chelsea Football Club and Kansas City Wizards.


6-0-6
The BBC's 6-0-6 is a football phone-in, broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live throughout the football season. It covers topics relating to the current affairs of football in the United Kingdom. There are three shows most weeks, Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday,with a Tuesday show usualy embedded for midweek cup and league matches each with a different presenter. These include Ray Stubbs who usually does Tuesdays, Manish Bhasin, DJ Spoony who usually does Saturdays, Mark Lawrenson, Alan Green, who has normally commentated on a game the same day, Mark Bright and Tim Lovejoy who now presents on Wednesday. As well as listeners phoning in, a selection of texts and e-mails to the studio are read out.
6-0-6's current theme tune is initially "Everybody" by Martin Solveig, followed immediately by an arrangement of Bohemian Like You from The Dandy Warhols.

Background
Originally the programme was broadcast only once a week, on Saturdays after Sports Report. It gets its name from the (approximate) time the show starts on a Saturday evening - six minutes past six.[1] Its original host was Danny Baker (1991-1992, 1994-1997). David Mellor (1992-2001) presented 6-0-6 for much of the 1990s and early on in the 2000s and was for a long time its regular Wednesday evening presenter. Other previous hosts have included Richard Littlejohn (1997-2002), Dominik Diamond, Adrian Chiles (2001-2006) and Jonathan Pearce (2002-2003).

6-0-6 Online Forum
In addition to the phone-in programme, there is also an online version of 6-0-6 in the form of an Internet message board, although in June 2006 the site was forced to close due to the large amount of web traffic and forum threads.
This lead to the BBC changing the way that the 606 messageboards work, which was controversal and lead to some members boycotting the 606 messageboards altogether.
Now Football, Cricket, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Snooker, Motorsport and all other Sports have messageboards embedded into 606.

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