Timothy Leslie "Tommy" Boyd (born 14 December 1952) is a British television and radio presenter. He gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as host of the children's television programmes Magpie, Wide Awake Club, and The Saturday Show. Between 1995 and 2002, he was best known for his radio shows on Talksport, where he adopted a more outspoken and controversial style.

Early life

Boyd was raised in West London. When he was seven, his younger sister Sally died after a two-year illness from a neurological condition, which affected his parents greatly. Boyd was a Redcoat entertainer at the Butlins resort in Bognor Regis as a teenager, where he saw comedians Tommy Cooper, Ken Dodd, and Bob Monkhouse perform. The three had a particular influence on Boyd, "I drank it all in, seeing what they did and how they did it". In January 2008, he moved to Original 106 FM, hosting the weekday breakfast show until September, before he returned to Play Radio UK with a general talk and phone-in weekday nights, billed as Global News Talk.

In 2009, he launched Digital Sport Radio, which makes radio for major sporting clubs and brands. On 19 May 2017, Boyd presented a one-off show on TalkRadio. Over the following weeks he went on to fill various other time slots on the station in lieu of the usual presenters.

On 5 February 2023, Boyd returned to radio with a Sunday night show on Brighton's Regency Radio from 10:00 PM until 1:00 AM, where he was joined by former Southern Sound presenters Nicky Keig-Shevlin and David Legge. The show's run ended in the spring of the same year.

References

  • * The Wiseman Tommy Boyd's Show "The Wiseman" at Mansize Radio (as of July 2015)