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 active	1988–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.^{[ citation needed ]}

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.^{[ citation needed ]}

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 .^{[ citation needed ]}

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. 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. Archived from the original on 13 March 2022.

External links

• Andi Peters on Twitter
• Andi Peters at IMDb