Timmy Mallett (born 18 October 1955[citation needed]) is an English television presenter, broadcaster, author and artist.

Among Mallett's team of helpers were Chris Evans (known as 'Nobby Nolevel'), Andy Bird (who played the pirate radio character 'Radio Diggle') and Karen Walsh (the original 'Aunty Boney kneecaps').

In Autumn 1984, he became a presenter of Wide Awake Club, a new Saturday morning children's programme on TV-am, with co-presenters Michaela Strachan, James Baker, Arabella Warner and Tommy Boyd.

TV-am found itself lacking a school holidays programme after Roland Rat moved to the BBC, and he was offered the chance to present it.

In the Wide Awake Club, contestants were hit over the head by his famed mallet for getting answers wrong.

[14] In September 2008, Mallett appeared on the BBC One politics show This Week talking about being positive when things get tough.

On 30 November 2008, Mallett was the fourth contestant eliminated from the show after being placed in the bottom two in the public voting and taking part in a play-off bush tucker eating trial with Brian Paddick.

Along with female vocalists and dancers Dawn Andrews and Annie Dunkley, they released a cover of the single "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini".

[citation needed] Mallett is an oil painter and acrylic and watercolour artist whose work sells in galleries across UK and Europe.

[29] His work is distributed and published in limited editions by De Montfort Fine Art[30][failed verification] and Buckingham Fine Art[31][failed verification] In 2002, he painted 50 portraits for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee including Wendy Craig, Jim Rosenthal, Lorraine Kelly, Ulrika Jonsson and Sir Clive Woodward.

[33] In 2012, Mallett painted a telephone box in Windsor with likenesses of the Queen, Prince Harry and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.

[37] There is an online map from the Ordnance Survey showing the route, paintings and videos around nearly 5000 miles of coastline.

[41] In spring 2018, Mallett cycled alone from home in England through France and Spain along the pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela Finisterre and back, a distance of over 4000 km, inspired by his older brother Martin with Downs syndrome.

[42] The story forms the basis for his memoirs Utterly Brilliant: My life's Journey, published in 2020 by SPCK, which also includes some of the paintings produced on this adventure.