Andi Peters

Andi Peters
Peters in 2010
Born
Andi Eleazu Peters

(1970-07-29) 29 July 1970 (age 54)
Chelsea, London, England
Occupation(s)Television presenter, producer, journalist, voice actor
Years active1988–present

Andi Eleazu Peters (born 29 July 1970)[1] is a British television presenter, producer, journalist and voice actor, currently employed by ITV and known for presenting Children's BBC, roles on breakfast TV shows Live & Kicking, GMTV, Good Morning Britain and Lorraine, and for hosting Dancing on Ice: Extra and The Big Reunion.

He competed in the first series of the ITV skating competition Dancing on Ice. He appeared in the third series of Celebrity MasterChef finishing as runner-up behind Atomic Kitten singer Liz McClarnon.

Career

Television

Peters presenting Dancing on Ice: The Tour in 2011 (pictured with Chloe Madeley and Michael Zenezini)

During his early television career, Andi Peters worked for ITV as a presenter for Thames Television and as in-vision continuity announcer for Children's ITV.[2]

He was taken on by the BBC in 1989 as a presenter on Children's BBC for The Broom Cupboard, succeeding Phillip Schofield and Andy Crane. Peters was accompanied by Edd the Duck, a hand puppet with a green mohican but, contrary to popular belief, never actually manipulated the puppet. Peters hosted The Broom Cupboard for just over four years, leaving in 1993.[3] He went on to present Take Two, a BBC Children's comments programme, and BBC Children's Saturday morning television programme Live & Kicking with Emma Forbes and John Barrowman.[2] He presented "Live & Kicking" between 1993 and 1996. Barrowman was only a full presenter for the first series.

Subsequently, Peters went on to work at LWT, and for Channel 4 as commissioning editor for youth and children's programmes. Among his TV producer credits are The Noise (ITV), The O-Zone (BBC), Top of the Pops (BBC) and Shipwrecked (Channel 4).[2][4]

In 2013 and 2014, Peters narrated the ITV2 reality series The Big Reunion, which shows the reunions of pop groups.[5][6]

He appeared in the ITV daytime show Show Me the Telly a number of times towards the end of 2013. Since 28 April 2014, Peters has hosted competitions on the breakfast news programme Good Morning Britain, and also the ITV daytime game show Ejector Seat, which aired for a very short period in 2014 as a temporary replacement for Tipping Point.[7]

He appears on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as a competition presenter.[8]

From 2020–2021, Peters had been occasionally guest hosting the ITV show Lorraine.

Film

Peters had a minor part in the 1999 animated film Toy Story 2, in which he provided the voice of Male Baggage Handler #1. Director John Lasseter offered the role to him while Peters was interviewing Lasseter for a Channel 4 "making-of" documentary. Because his US work visa did not cover voiceover work, Peters had to record his line in the UK over a live broadcast to the Pixar studio.[9][2]

Radio

In March 2022, Peters stood in on Virgin Radio's The Graham Norton Show while Graham Norton was away for family reasons.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Andi Peters' Models Limited - London". Check Company.
  2. ^ a b c d Donnell, Alison (2002). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 236–7. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  3. ^ Wilson, Benji (10 September 2015). "Andi Peters: 'Some of my best years were spent with Edd the Duck'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Andi Peters becomes executive editor" (Press release). BBC Press Office. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  5. ^ Dimelow, Gareth (1 February 2013). "ITV 2's The Big Reunion: What The Slam Dunk Da Funk Was That About?". Sabotage Times. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  6. ^ Earls, John (27 March 2014). "'The Big Reunion' presenter Andi Peters wants a Britpop-themed version of the ITV2 show". NME.
  7. ^ Wightman, Catriona (6 February 2014). "Andi Peters to host Ejector Seat ITV gameshow". Digital Spy.
  8. ^ Harrison, Claire (22 February 2020). "Why Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway came to Nuneaton". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  9. ^ Lewis, Rebecca (17 July 2016). "Turns out everyone's fave 90s TV presenter Andi Peters starred in a Disney film". Metro. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Andi Peters to cover for Graham Norton on Virgin Radio". The Version. 11 March 2022.[dead link‍]
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