Toby Anstis

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Toby Anstis (born October 31, 1971) is a radio presenter at London's Heart 106.2. He presents his morning show weekdays from 9am-1pm, starting off with the Time Tunnel, following Jamie Theakston's and Harriet Scott's breakfast show, which, when Theakston is away, he joins Harriet on.

Originally Toby made his name as a presenter of the Broom Cupboard to front Children's BBC each weekday afternoon from 1993. He presented at the ill-fated Liberty Radio hosting the breakfast show, and was also a presenter for various programmes on Challenge TV (such as TV Scrabble), before moving to Heart 106.2. In 2004, he appeared in the LivingTV reality TV show, I'm Famous and Frightened!

In July 2006 Toby appeared as a pundit on Big Brother's Big Mouth - one of the several supporting shows for the Big Brother output as well as being a guest on ITV's The Mint.

In October 2006 Toby appeared on Channel Five's The All Star Talent Show dancing to Justin Timberlake's SexyBack. His act was patently the worst on the show, but he accepted the fact that he was bad with such grace, that he was voted as the winner. On October 13, 2006, Toby returned to the show to take part in the grand final.

In November 2006 Anstis took part in the sixth series of the ITV show I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! Toby Anstis was the very first person to be voted out of the show. Toby was originally one of the more popular contestants so this left everyone in the show including the presenters really shocked and his fellow contestants were upset by his departure. On November 25, The Sun ran an article that revealed Toby's eviction had been the result of a mix-up which happened on the interactive "red button" vote - people normally use this to keep their favourites in the show, but it asked which one they wanted to vote out instead of in. When ITV bosses realised their mistake, they shut the service down, but Toby's eviction has already sparked fury amongst fans.

[edit] Trivia

• Toby has a twin sister named Kate. They were adopted when they were just a few weeks old. With the approval and support of their adoptive parents, they later met their biological parents.

• Toby avoided appearing on the disastrous ITV1 series, Celebrity Wrestling when he broke two fingers on his left hand while training.