Geoff Lloyd
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Geoff Lloyd is a British
radio presenter. Lloyd presents Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
, Monday-Friday, 5pm-8pm on Absolute Radio. Until Autumn 2008, he presented the late night program The Geoff Show
and before that, until Winter 2005 he co-presented the Virgin Radio
breakfast show with Pete Mitchell (the show was known as the Pete And Geoff
Breakfast Show). Occasionally he is asked to present the breakfast show with Annabel Port
when Christian O'Connell
is on leave.
He is a noted Beatles and 60s fan which is frequently reflected in his personal style and choice of music; Lloyd played an entire Beatles album without interval on the radio in 2006. During his radio shows Lloyd frequently makes references to John Lennon
and Paul McCartney
.
In 2005 Lloyd unsuccessfully applied to audition for the role of the new James Bond
following the departure of Pierce Brosnan
, the role eventually went Daniel Craig
.
, Cheshire, a South Manchester satellite town. After working as a paperboy, in 1989 he began working at a local print works after school, earning £1 an hour.
He began his radio career in 1991 at KFM Radio
/ Signal Cheshire in Stockport, as a traffic & travel reporter, before taking over their weekday evening show.
Geoff later signed up with Piccadilly Radio in Manchester, and in 1998 he teamed up with Pete Mitchell to present the afternoon show on Key 103
.
The duo rapidly established a cult following with their witty and slightly risque banter, and in 1998 won a Sony radio academy award for their show.
Geoff has made numerous references to living some of the year in Sweden.
In late 1998 they were subsequently recruited by Virgin Radio
, where they took over the weekday evening show and also covered Chris Evans on the Breakfast Show, and again rapidly built up a significant audience. The pair took over the Drivetime
(late afternoon) show in early 2002. By 2003, they were the most popular DJs on the station and were moved to the Breakfast Show in order to increase the audience. This they did very successfully, sticking to their well-established formula of off-the-cuff, humorous remarks concerning contemporary news and culture, with Mitchell tending to play the "straight man" to the more outrageous Lloyd. Lloyd occasionally courted controversy with some of his remarks, most notoriously when he expressed willingness to eat the limbs of a dead baby to ease poverty. A complaint against the station was upheld and Lloyd was reprimanded for his comments. Nevertheless, the audience for the show remained strong, despite (or possibly because of) Lloyd's willingness to stray to the edge of acceptability with his remarks.
On 28 November 2005, to the dismay of their listeners, the duo announced that they were splitting up and leaving the Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio. Their final show together took place on 16 December. While Geoff Lloyd remained at Virgin Radio (presenting the late-night show), Pete Mitchell left the station to pursue other projects. Christian O'Connell
, from the Breakfast Show on London indie
station XFM
replaced the pair as host of the breakfast show on Virgin Radio in January 2006
Geoff's show, entitled The Geoff Show
started on 3 January 2006 and was broadcast from 10pm - 1am Monday to Thursday on Virgin radio, with his co-host Annabel Port
and producer Nelson Kumah
.
In late September 2008, Geoff began presenting the new Absolute Radio drive-time program, entitled Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
. It runs from 5pm through to 8pm each weekday evening, except on Fridays when it ends at 7pm
show Richard & Judy
on 8 December 2005 to celebrate the life of former Beatles member, John Lennon and again on 26 March 2007 to discuss the band Slade
, together with the band's frontman Noddy Holder
. However, Mr Holder spoke quite extensively and Geoff did not get a chance to say anything, much to the amusement of the co-hosts on his nightly radio show. He has also appeared on a commentary show for Big Brother
, Big Brother's Little Brother, with Dermot O' Leary. Geoff has also appeared as a celebrity contestant in the game shows Eggheads and Win, Lose or Draw Late.
In 2009, Lloyd and Port worked together on a Internet broadcast produced by Five on their website. Titled FlashForward Friday, it was a weekly review on the latest episode of drama series FlashForward
, being broadcast on Five's television channel. In 2011, he did a program much the same for the Sky website on Game of Thrones
.
Annabel and Geoff also appear on the iPod 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?' app as Phone a Friend options.
United Kingdom
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radio presenter. Lloyd presents Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show is a drivetime radio program, broadcast on Absolute Radio.The show runs for three hours, between 5pm and 8pm, Monday to Thursday, and for two hours, between 5pm and 7pm, on Fridays. Presented by Geoff Lloyd, it also featured his 'symposium', comprising himself, Annabel...
, Monday-Friday, 5pm-8pm on Absolute Radio. Until Autumn 2008, he presented the late night program The Geoff Show
The Geoff Show
The Geoff Show was a humorous radio program, broadcast on Absolute Radio from 3 January 2006 to 25 September 2008.The show ran for three hours, between 10pm and 1am, Monday to Thursday. Presented by Geoff Lloyd, it also featured his 'symposium', comprising himself, Annabel Port and his producer...
and before that, until Winter 2005 he co-presented the Virgin Radio
Virgin Radio
Absolute Radio is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations. The station rebranded to its current name at 7.45am on 29 September 2008.The station is based in London and plays popular rock music...
breakfast show with Pete Mitchell (the show was known as the Pete And Geoff
Pete And Geoff
The duo of Pete and Geoff were DJs Pete Mitchell and Geoff Lloyd, who from January 2003 to December 2005 hosted the breakfast show on Virgin Radio. In the early 1980s, Mitchell was an aspiring musician who moved into management and production...
Breakfast Show). Occasionally he is asked to present the breakfast show with Annabel Port
Annabel Port
Annabel Port is a British radio presenter who currently acts as a sidekick on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, broadcast from Monday to Friday on Absolute Radio from 5 pm to 8 pm. She is known for her witty sense of humour and eccentric behaviour...
when Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell is an English radio DJ who presents the Absolute Radio weekday breakfast show.He has formerly hosted BBC Radio Five Live's weekend sports game show Fighting Talk alongside the weekday breakfast show on indie music station Xfm London...
is on leave.
He is a noted Beatles and 60s fan which is frequently reflected in his personal style and choice of music; Lloyd played an entire Beatles album without interval on the radio in 2006. During his radio shows Lloyd frequently makes references to John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
and Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
.
In 2005 Lloyd unsuccessfully applied to audition for the role of the new James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
following the departure of Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...
, the role eventually went Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
.
Early career
Lloyd grew up in MacclesfieldMacclesfield
Macclesfield is a market town within the unitary authority of Cheshire East, the county palatine of Chester, also known as the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The population of the Macclesfield urban sub-area at the time of the 2001 census was 50,688...
, Cheshire, a South Manchester satellite town. After working as a paperboy, in 1989 he began working at a local print works after school, earning £1 an hour.
He began his radio career in 1991 at KFM Radio
KFM Radio
KFM was an unlicenced radio station based in Stockport, Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom.-History:KFM originally broadcast on 94.2 MHz FM from a studio on Middle Hillgate, with the transmitter and aerial at Goyt Mill in Marple from November 1983 to February 1985 while it was...
/ Signal Cheshire in Stockport, as a traffic & travel reporter, before taking over their weekday evening show.
Geoff later signed up with Piccadilly Radio in Manchester, and in 1998 he teamed up with Pete Mitchell to present the afternoon show on Key 103
Key 103
Key 103 is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the city of Manchester and the north west of England. Its output is principally contemporary pop and dance music. Formerly owned by Trans World Communications, EMAP and now by Bauer Radio, Key 103 is part of Bauer's Place Network of...
.
The duo rapidly established a cult following with their witty and slightly risque banter, and in 1998 won a Sony radio academy award for their show.
Geoff has made numerous references to living some of the year in Sweden.
Absolute Radio
Virgin Radio
Absolute Radio is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations. The station rebranded to its current name at 7.45am on 29 September 2008.The station is based in London and plays popular rock music...
, where they took over the weekday evening show and also covered Chris Evans on the Breakfast Show, and again rapidly built up a significant audience. The pair took over the Drivetime
DriveTime
DriveTime Automotive Group Inc., based in Phoenix, Arizona, is the largest used car seller and automobile finance company focusing on buyers with credit problems. The company has 88 dealerships in 36 U.S. metropolitan areas, and more than 2000 employees...
(late afternoon) show in early 2002. By 2003, they were the most popular DJs on the station and were moved to the Breakfast Show in order to increase the audience. This they did very successfully, sticking to their well-established formula of off-the-cuff, humorous remarks concerning contemporary news and culture, with Mitchell tending to play the "straight man" to the more outrageous Lloyd. Lloyd occasionally courted controversy with some of his remarks, most notoriously when he expressed willingness to eat the limbs of a dead baby to ease poverty. A complaint against the station was upheld and Lloyd was reprimanded for his comments. Nevertheless, the audience for the show remained strong, despite (or possibly because of) Lloyd's willingness to stray to the edge of acceptability with his remarks.
On 28 November 2005, to the dismay of their listeners, the duo announced that they were splitting up and leaving the Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio. Their final show together took place on 16 December. While Geoff Lloyd remained at Virgin Radio (presenting the late-night show), Pete Mitchell left the station to pursue other projects. Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell is an English radio DJ who presents the Absolute Radio weekday breakfast show.He has formerly hosted BBC Radio Five Live's weekend sports game show Fighting Talk alongside the weekday breakfast show on indie music station Xfm London...
, from the Breakfast Show on London indie
Indie (music)
In music, independent music, often shortened to indie music or "indie" is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, and an autonomous, Do-It-Yourself approach to recording and publishing....
station XFM
Xfm
Xfm is a brand of two commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio.-History:Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob, who later co-founded NME Radio in 2008. Xfm subsequently expanded to a network of four stations; there are...
replaced the pair as host of the breakfast show on Virgin Radio in January 2006
Geoff's show, entitled The Geoff Show
The Geoff Show
The Geoff Show was a humorous radio program, broadcast on Absolute Radio from 3 January 2006 to 25 September 2008.The show ran for three hours, between 10pm and 1am, Monday to Thursday. Presented by Geoff Lloyd, it also featured his 'symposium', comprising himself, Annabel Port and his producer...
started on 3 January 2006 and was broadcast from 10pm - 1am Monday to Thursday on Virgin radio, with his co-host Annabel Port
Annabel Port
Annabel Port is a British radio presenter who currently acts as a sidekick on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, broadcast from Monday to Friday on Absolute Radio from 5 pm to 8 pm. She is known for her witty sense of humour and eccentric behaviour...
and producer Nelson Kumah
Nelson Kumah
Nelson Kumah is a British radio producer working on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show broadcasting on Absolute Radio. His association with Lloyd began on the 6th of January 2008 working as the replacement for Tony Moorey who left The Geoff Show on the 20th of December 2007...
.
In late September 2008, Geoff began presenting the new Absolute Radio drive-time program, entitled Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show
Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show is a drivetime radio program, broadcast on Absolute Radio.The show runs for three hours, between 5pm and 8pm, Monday to Thursday, and for two hours, between 5pm and 7pm, on Fridays. Presented by Geoff Lloyd, it also featured his 'symposium', comprising himself, Annabel...
. It runs from 5pm through to 8pm each weekday evening, except on Fridays when it ends at 7pm
Television appearances
Lloyd has made several television appearances, appearing on the Channel 4Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
show Richard & Judy
Richard & Judy
Richard & Judy was a British magazine/chat show which was presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. It originally aired on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2008 but later moved to digital channel Watch in October 2008. It featured the world's most famous stars, along with their Book Club...
on 8 December 2005 to celebrate the life of former Beatles member, John Lennon and again on 26 March 2007 to discuss the band Slade
Slade
Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles...
, together with the band's frontman Noddy Holder
Noddy Holder
Neville John "Noddy" Holder MBE is an English musician and actor. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist with the rock band Slade....
. However, Mr Holder spoke quite extensively and Geoff did not get a chance to say anything, much to the amusement of the co-hosts on his nightly radio show. He has also appeared on a commentary show for Big Brother
Big Brother (UK)
Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
, Big Brother's Little Brother, with Dermot O' Leary. Geoff has also appeared as a celebrity contestant in the game shows Eggheads and Win, Lose or Draw Late.
In 2009, Lloyd and Port worked together on a Internet broadcast produced by Five on their website. Titled FlashForward Friday, it was a weekly review on the latest episode of drama series FlashForward
Flashforward
A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...
, being broadcast on Five's television channel. In 2011, he did a program much the same for the Sky website on Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (TV series)
Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones, the television series debuted in...
.
Annabel and Geoff also appear on the iPod 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?' app as Phone a Friend options.
Awards
Geoff has won several awards for his work on radio, including:- 2010 Arqiva Commercial Radio Presenter of the Year (large - broadcasting to more than 1 million)
- 2007 European Radio Awards for Best Radio Personality
- 2002 The Gold Sony Radio Award for The Best Daily Music Programme for The Pete & Geoff Show - Virgin Radio
- 1998 The Silver Sony Radio Award for The Pete & Geoff Afternoon Show - Key 103
See also
- Absolute Radio
- The Geoff ShowThe Geoff ShowThe Geoff Show was a humorous radio program, broadcast on Absolute Radio from 3 January 2006 to 25 September 2008.The show ran for three hours, between 10pm and 1am, Monday to Thursday. Presented by Geoff Lloyd, it also featured his 'symposium', comprising himself, Annabel Port and his producer...
- Pete And GeoffPete And GeoffThe duo of Pete and Geoff were DJs Pete Mitchell and Geoff Lloyd, who from January 2003 to December 2005 hosted the breakfast show on Virgin Radio. In the early 1980s, Mitchell was an aspiring musician who moved into management and production...
- Geoff Lloyd's Hometime ShowGeoff Lloyd's Hometime ShowGeoff Lloyd's Hometime Show is a drivetime radio program, broadcast on Absolute Radio.The show runs for three hours, between 5pm and 8pm, Monday to Thursday, and for two hours, between 5pm and 7pm, on Fridays. Presented by Geoff Lloyd, it also featured his 'symposium', comprising himself, Annabel...
- Annabel PortAnnabel PortAnnabel Port is a British radio presenter who currently acts as a sidekick on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, broadcast from Monday to Friday on Absolute Radio from 5 pm to 8 pm. She is known for her witty sense of humour and eccentric behaviour...
- Tony MooreyTony MooreyTony Moorey is at Absolute Radio. He previously was the producer of The Geoff Show on Virgin Radio where he, Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port made up the 'Symposium', until December 21, 2007. He was replaced by Nelson Kumah...
- Nelson KumahNelson KumahNelson Kumah is a British radio producer working on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show broadcasting on Absolute Radio. His association with Lloyd began on the 6th of January 2008 working as the replacement for Tony Moorey who left The Geoff Show on the 20th of December 2007...
- Leslie PhillipsLeslie PhillipsLeslie Samuel Phillips, CBE is an English actor with a highly recognisable upper class accent. Originally known for his work as a comedy actor, Phillips subsequently made the transition to character roles.-Early life:...
External links
- Geoff Lloyd at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Absolute Radio.co.uk - The Geoff Show
- Geoff's profile at absoluteradio.co.uk