About Tim Shaw

Tim recently presented Channel 4’s primetime series, ‘Extreme Male Beauty’ which was an extremely immersive documentary following him on his journey delving in to the world of male vanity. Tim has also been the face of Channel 5’s ‘Fifth Gear’ the motoring magazine show which is replayed on Dave.

Previous key TV series for Tim include Channel 4’s ‘Balls of Steel’ where he featured as character Mr Inappropriate and Virgin 1’s ‘Britain’s Worst Learners where clueless people behind the wheel are taught to drive by their long-suffering loved ones.  He also has presented on More 4’s ‘The Last Word’ and ITV1’s ‘Pulling Power’. 

Radio-wise, Tim has picked up 9 of the prestigious New York Radio awards (notably 6 golds). In 2009 he won a Sony Radio Award in the most prestigious category, ‘The Entertainment Award’. Tim was also awarded two of EMAP’s most distinguished awards ‘Speech Broadcaster of the Year” and of course another “Entertainment Award”. In May 2008 Tim was awarded ‘Presenter of the Year’ by the British Radio Industry. Having recently chosen to leave Absolute radio (previously Virgin Radio), Tim now works at BRMB in Birmingham. Previous radio shows have included Kiss 100, Magic, Hallam FM, BBC local stations, Century and Kerrang! Radio, Tim has earned the title of “The Most Internationally awarded Radio Presenter in the UK today”.

Tim’s latest project Man In Box saw him locked in a box for 30 days somewhere in the UK, however neither he or anyone he knows (bar two people) knew where he was. Being told that his location was meaningful to him, 8.5 million people tuned in to watch the 24hr a day live stream. Viewers had to try to find him with a prize of £30,000 to the first correct coordinates. Man In Box was an idea that Tim himself devised, realised and funded. To date it is the second biggest live streamed event in history. 

Tim has two first class honours degrees and randomly enough was Young Engineer of the Year in 1994. He has a fascination with people (having carried out over 8000 interviews) and his personal goal is to travel the world and meet everybody! Good luck with that.

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