Byron Evans is a television presenter, working for the Greater Manchester television station, Channel M.

Currently, Evans is the chief anchorman for the station's flagship breakfast programme Channel M Breakfast

Channel M Breakfast

Channel M Breakfast was a regional breakfast television programme, produced by the Greater Manchester local television station, Channel M. Launched on Monday 16 April 2007 and broadcast from the headquarters of Channel M at Urbis in Manchester city centre, the programme covered news, sport,...

alongside Nikki Dean

Nikki Dean

Nikki Dean is a British TV presenter, born in Stockport and brought up in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester.Nikki Dean studied at Sheffield Hallam University gaining a BA in Media Studies majoring in Broadcast Journalism....

, and Benjamin Bland, who is sometimes described as the Mini Me to Byron's Doctor Evil . The show broadcasts every weekday between 6am and 9am. The show features a mixture of local news, weather, interviews, recorded articles and newspaper reviews.

Prior to joining the breakfast programme for its launch on 16 April 2007, Evans was the station's chief Entertainment Specialist, presenting & producing nightly reports for Channel M News

Channel M News

Channel M News was a regional television news service covering the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, produced by Channel M, partly in conjunction with the Manchester Evening News....

(for which, he was also a stand-in anchor) and the Friday night features show, City Life

City Life

City Life may refer to:* Urban culture, the culture of cities* CityLife , a 2004 urban project in Milan* City Life , a 1994 musical work by Steve Reich* City Life , a New Zealand soap opera...

.

Byron also writes a regular column in the Manchester Evening News

Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc following its sale by Guardian Media Group in early 2010. It has an average daily circulation of 90,973 copies...

  on lifestyle issues. He has a pet tortoise called Nigel, and his favourite cheese is Wensleydale

Wensleydale

Wensleydale is the valley of the River Ure on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire, England.Wensleydale lies in the Yorkshire Dales National Park – one of only a few valleys in the Dales not currently named after its principal river , but the older name, "Yoredale", can still be seen...

. Byron came third in the 2007 Belgian version of Stars in Their Eyes

Stars In Their Eyes

Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show that ran on Saturdays nights from 21 July 1990 until 23 December 2006 in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars...

, by impersonating former pop star Limahl

Limahl

Christopher Hamill better known by his stage name Limahl is an English pop singer. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the 1980s pop group Kajagoogoo, before embarking on a briefly successful solo career, which reached its peak with the 1984 hit "The NeverEnding Story", taken from the film of...

 singing 'Too Shy' by the band Kajagoogoo

Kajagoogoo

Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their hit single, "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the U.S...

. His attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records by sitting in a bath containing 64 pints of custard for 17 hours, whilst listening to the collected speeches of Timmy Mallett

Timmy Mallett

Timmy Mallett is a TV presenter and broadcaster in the UK. He achieved cult status on BBC Radio Oxford and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and later on TV-am...

is awaiting verification from the authorities.