Tony Livesey

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Anthony "Tony" Livesey

Born	(1964-01-11) 11 January 1964 Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
Occupation	Journalist & presenter

Anthony Livesey (born 11 January 1964, Burnley, Lancashire) is a British journalist and broadcaster who currently presents Weekend Breakfast on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Early life

He attended St George's Junior School, Vaughan Street, Nelson. His mother died aged 44, when he was 13 years old.^[1]

Career

Newspapers

He began his career with the Nelson Leader and then worked in the Middle East with Sam Sloan at the Gulf News in Dubai. Returning to his native Lancashire, he worked at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph before spending 18 years with Sport Newspapers where he was editor-in-chief and managing director of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers.

Radio and television

Livesey in 2009

After resigning in August 2006 from the Sport newspapers, he joined the BBC, presenting a Saturday morning show, then moving on to presenting the breakfast show on BBC Radio Lancashire, where his daily podcast was the BBC's most popular for regional radio, until he joined 5 Live in January 2010. On this station Livesey presents the late night discussion show from MediaCityUK, Salford Quays.^[2] At the time of this move, it was announced he would continue to host a weekend show on BBC Lancashire, though this has yet to transpire.

In 2004 Livesey appeared as the moderator in the BBC2 game show Traitor, although his name did not appear in the opening credits.^[3] He is also the sports reporter for regional TV news programme BBC North West Tonight, and additionally covered for regular news anchor Gordon Burns in his absence, up to Burns' retirement, which he still does occasionally for Burns' successor Roger Johnson, as well as presenting the North West edition of the BBC's regional football show Late Kick Off. A staunch supporter of Burnley F.C., Livesey is a regular pundit on BBC1's Inside Sport alongside Gabby Logan as well as appearances on Have I Got News For You, What The Papers Say and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, all on the BBC. He also occasionally presented the Breakfast programme on 5 Live.

Livesey presented the one-off documentary Crumpet: A Very British Sex Symbol, which was transmitted on BBC2 on 28 December 2005 and a year later he presented another programme related to this called Beefcake: A Very British Sex Symbol, which too was transmitted on BBC2 on 27 December 2006.

On 11 January 2010, Livesey started to present a new late night show on BBC Radio Five Live. The show is a mixture of news, sport, discussion and entertainment. He took over from Richard Bacon, who moved to the afternoon show following Simon Mayo's departure to BBC Radio 2. Livesey's show was the first of the station's London-based programmes to move north prior to the whole station moving to BBC North's new broadcasting facility at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays in 2011.^[4] Livesey's late night show on 26 September 2011 was the very first to be presented from MediaCity. He is occasionally a stand-in presenter on Shelagh Fogarty's programme on 5 Live, and in March 2013 also stood in for Victoria Derbyshire on her mid-morning show.

In October 2011, Livesey began presenting BBC News' Breakfast programme.

In 2011 he competed twice against representatives of other BBC radio stations. Firstly, he performed a stand up comedy routine against representatives from Radio 1, 2, 3 and 6 Music for Comic Relief. Secondly, he and Pat Nevin took on BBC 6 Music in a Fighting Talk special.

Livesey presented the sports news on BBC North West Tonight until 26 July 2013 when he announced on air that he was leaving to present a current affairs section on The One Show.

On 4 April 2013 it was announced that he would be leaving the late night show after three years in the role, but would remain on Radio 5 Live to present the weekend breakfast programme alongside Eleanor Oldroyd. His final late night show was on 2 May 2013.

References

↑ "My story: Tony Livesey", BBC Radio Lancashire
↑ "Gabby Logan to host new afternoon show on BBC Radio 5 Live", Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2009
↑ UK Gameshows - Traitor
↑ "5 Live: Tony Livesey starts new show from Manchester on 11 January", BBC press release, 22 December 2009

v t e BBC Radio 5 Live

Current presenters	Dotun Adebayo Peter Allen Anita Anand Richard Bacon Danny Baker Rachel Burden Rachael Bland Nicky Campbell Kelly Cates Mark Chapman Mickey Clark Mark Clemmit Declan Curry Victoria Derbyshire Shelagh Fogarty Anna Foster Adrian Goldberg Alan Green Mark Kermode Jamillah Knowles Tony Livesey Simon Mayo Al Murray Colin Murray Stephen Nolan Eleanor Oldroyd John Pienaar Mark Pougatch Dalya Raphael Garry Richardson Rhod Sharp Andrew Verity Chris Warburton Arlo White Phil Williams

Programmes	5 live Breakfast 5 live Drive 5 live Sport 606 7 Day Sunday Fighting Talk Kermode and Mayo's Film Review Morning Report Sports Report Sportsweek Stephen Nolan Up All Night (World Football Phone-In) Wake Up to Money

Sports Extra programmes	Test Match Special

Related Stations	Radio 4 News FM (defunct) Radio 5 (rebranded) BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

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Name	Livesey, Tony
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Date of birth	11 January 1964
Place of birth	Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
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