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Timmy Mallett is a British television and radio presenter, artist, and businessman. He is best known for his work on the children's television show Wacaday, which he presented from 1985 to 1992. He also presented the game show Mallett's Mallet from 1989 to 2001.
Mallett was born in Marple, Cheshire, England, on 18 October 1955. He attended Stockport Grammar School and studied at the University of Manchester, where he earned a degree in English and Drama.
Mallett began his career in television in the early 1980s, working as a presenter on the BBC's children's show Saturday Superstore. He then moved to ITV, where he presented the children's show Wacaday from 1985 to 1992. He also presented the game show Mallett's Mallet from 1989 to 2001.
Mallett has also worked as a radio presenter, hosting shows on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, and BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also written and presented several documentaries for the BBC.
Mallett is also an artist, and has exhibited his work in galleries in the UK and abroad. He is also a successful businessman, having founded the company Timmy Mallett Enterprises, which produces a range of products including books, DVDs, and clothing.
Mallett is married to his wife, Sarah, and they have two children. He is estimated to have a net worth of around £2 million.
| Popular As |
Timothy Luke Mallett |
| Occupation |
Radio/television presenter, artist |
| Age |
68 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
| Born |
18 October, 1955 |
| Birthday |
18 October |
| Birthplace |
Marple, Stockport, Cheshire, England |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom |
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Timmy Mallett Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Timmy Mallett's Wife?
His wife is Lynda Bingham (m. 1990)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
Lynda Bingham (m. 1990) |
| Sibling |
Not Available |
| Children |
Billy Mallett |
Timmy Mallett Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Timmy Mallett worth at the age of 68 years old? Timmy Mallett’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated
Timmy Mallett's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
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Timeline
In the summer of 2018, Mallett discovered and painted his Father's secret Galloway bridge scene from September 1966.
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.
In December 2016, he appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal Windsor.
He toured Park Holidays UK's sites doing the 'Timmy Mallett' show 2016.
He rode through Northern Ireland in May 2015, Lincolnshire in summer 2015 and through Cumbria in May 2016.
Mallett's "Summer Holiday" video was made in 2014.
He toured the Pontins holiday camps with the "Utterly Brilliant Timmy Mallett show" in 2014.
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.
In 2013, Mallett recorded Gilbert O'Sullivan's hit "Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day".
In 2012, Mallett won the Best up and coming artist Fine Art Trade Guild.
In 2012, Mallett painted a telephone box in Windsor with likenesses of the Queen, Prince Harry and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.
In 2008, Mallett appeared on Big Brother's Little Brother.
In September 2008, Mallett appeared on the BBC One politics show This Week talking about being positive when things get tough.
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 2 in the public voting and taking part in a (play-off) Bushtucker eating trial to Brian Paddick.
In 2008, Mallett featured in Skepta's video "Rolex Sweep" and accompanied Skepta to the MOBO nominations.
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 2002, Mallett made West Ham United F.C. 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.
While staying at Hartlepool, Mallet rescued a woman from the marina in December 2001.
From 1997 until 2002, he acted in Timmy Towers, for CITV.
In 1993, Mallett starred in The Children's Channel's Around the World in 80 seconds as Captain Everything.
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.
Under the name "Del Costa", Mallett released a megamix version of "Hot Hot Hot" in summer 1992.
For "Tommy's campaign", Mallett recorded "The Laughing Policeman" with producer George Martin in 1991.
With producer 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". It reached no. 1 in the UK charts in August 1990.
Follow up singles included "7 Little girls sitting in the backseat" which reached number 18 in the UK charts in December 1990.
The Bombalurina album "Huggin and a kissin" with 14 tracks was released in December 1990.
Mallett won two Radio Academy Awards for Best Local Radio presenter (1984) and Best pop music show (1986).
In 1983, he helmed Summer Run on Saturday mornings for the new breakfast television station, TV-am. The following year 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 1985.
Timmy Mallett (born 18 October 1955) is an English TV presenter, broadcaster, and artist. He is known for his striking visual style, colourful glasses, loud shirts, and Giant Pink foam mallet, known as "Mallett's Mallet", as well as his "utterly brilliant!" and "blaaah!" catchphrases.
