{"id":68180,"date":"2023-09-23T13:38:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/?p=68180"},"modified":"2023-09-23T13:38:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:38:46","slug":"nineties-kids-tv-legend-has-very-different-job-now-after-15-years-off-screen-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/tv-movies\/nineties-kids-tv-legend-has-very-different-job-now-after-15-years-off-screen-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Nineties kids' TV legend has VERY different job now after 15 years off screen | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NINETIES kids' TV legend has a very different job now after 15 years off screen.<\/p>\n

Timmy Mallett was adored by millions of children in the eighties and nineties.<\/p>\n


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He's best known for his hit series Wacaday with his infamous companion Pinky Punky, a soft toy hammer.<\/p>\n

The star also fronted The Wide Awake Club as well as Timmy Towers.<\/p>\n

In 2008 he returned to television and took part in I'm A Celebrity, sharing the Australian camp with stars including Nicola MLean and Joe Swash.<\/p>\n

However, these days Timmy – who recently became a grandad – has a completely different job.<\/p>\n

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He's teamed up with Pension Attention to raise awareness of workers' pension pots.<\/p>\n

Timmy, now 67, has brought back his iconic gameshow to take contestants back to the 80s and 90s to capture the UK public\u2019s attention so they don\u2019t feel so \u201cBleugh\u201d about their pensions.<\/p>\n

He said: "I suspect people in their thirties often think about their pension and feel they don\u2019t need to engage, assuming it\u2019s something to address as you approach stopping work.<\/p>\n

"But trust me, careers aren\u2019t linear, and you might wake up one morning and suddenly you're 55 and you go, crikey, what happened there? It zips along.<\/p>\n

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"That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important to think back to those different jobs over the years and think about any pensions that may be associated."<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the kids' TV star spoke about CITV closing down for good earlier this month and moving to ITVX.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

He told The Sun: "It\u2019s just a different way of accessing the material, so the programmes are still there and children will always find them.<\/p>\n

"If you look at the\u00a0TV\u00a0figures, people say \u2018oh it\u2019s got an audience like that or this\u2019 well if you were to compare that with children\u2019s\u00a0TV\u00a0audiences right up there, they\u2019re enormous. Kids find them.<\/p>\n

"The home grown talent and programming is there, they\u2019re just not on at mainstream times.<\/p>\n

"We used to come home from school and Blue Peter would be on with everything else, now you\u2019ve got to go to your own channel to find it."<\/p>\n


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