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Andi Eleazu Peters (born 29 July 1970) is a British television presenter, producer, journalist and voice actor, currently employed by ITV and known for presenting
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, roles on breakfast TV shows ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Good Morning Britain'' and ''
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'', and for hosting '' Dancing on Ice: Extra'' and ''
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''. He competed in the first series of the ITV skating competition ''
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''. He appeared in the third series of ''Celebrity MasterChef'' finishing as runner-up behind
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singer
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.


Career


Television

During his early television career, Andi Peters worked for ITV as an presenter for
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and as in-vision
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for CITV. He was taken on by the BBC in 1989 as a presenter on
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for ''The Broom Cupboard'', succeeding
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and
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. Peters was accompanied by Edd the Duck, a
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with a green
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. Peters hosted ''The Broom Cupboard'' for just over four years, leaving in 1993. He went on to present Take Two, a
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comments programme, and BBC Children's television programme ''
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'' with
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and
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. Subsequently, Peters went on to work at LWT, and for
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as commissioning editor for youth and children's programmes. Among his TV producer credits are ''
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'' (ITV), '' The O-Zone'' (BBC), ''
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'' (BBC) and '' Shipwrecked'' (Channel 4). In 2013 and 2014, Peters narrated the
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reality series ''
The Big Reunion ''The Big Reunion'' is a British reality-documentary series that began airing on ITV2 on 31 January 2013. The show featured chart-topping bands who were big in the UK pop music scene between the 1990s and early 2000s, and the programme followed ...
'', which shows the reunions of pop groups. He appeared in the ITV daytime show ''
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'' a number of times towards the end of 2013. Since 28 April 2014, Peters has hosted competitions on the breakfast news programme '' Good Morning Britain'', and also the ITV daytime game show ''
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'', which aired for a very short period in 2014 as a temporary replacement for '' Tipping Point''. He stars on ''
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'' as a competition presenter. Since Christmas 2020, Peters has occasionally been guest hosting the ITV show ''
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''.


Film

Peters had a minor part in the 1999 animated film ''
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'', in which he provided the voice of Male Baggage Handler #1. Director
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offered the role to him while Peters was interviewing Lasseter for a Channel 4 "
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" documentary. Because his US work visa did not cover voiceover work, Peters had to record his line in the UK over a live broadcast to the Pixar studio.


Radio

In March 2022, Peters stood in on
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's ''The
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Show'' while
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was away for family reasons.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Andi 1970 births Black British television personalities English people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent English people of Jamaican descent English television presenters Living people British children's television presenters British Christians