[1] He is of Estonian descent from his father's side as his grandparents moved from Estonia to Sweden during the Second World War.

[4] Pops was a sidekick in Melodifestivalen 2007 and was the spokesperson for Sweden during the voting at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Finland the same year.

[5] He also presented the SVT broadcast from the Swedish national day celebrations in 2009 along with Marie Serneholt.

A majority of Expressen newspaper readers voted Pops as the best Swedish Christmas show host of all time.

[8] Pops won the Kristall award for "Best sport television profile of the year" four consecutive time in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 during Kristallen[9] On 5 December 2011 Pops received the award for "Sports journalist of the Year" by Sportjournalistens Klubb Stockholm.