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Andi Peters (born 29 July 1970 in Chelsea, London) is an English television presenter and executive. He first found fame as a television presenter and was subsequently employed as a senior TV executive. He is mostly associated with shows for young people. Initially he presented Freetime, on ITV, but reached a much wider audience with Edd the Duck and Wilson (an arm purporting to be part of a butler) in "The Broom Cupboard" slot on Children's BBC, which he presented from 1990 to 1993. He eventually left the Broom Cupboard and went on to present Live & Kicking, alongside Emma Forbes, from 1993 to 1996. One of his most memorable moments on Live and Kicking was when Terry Nutkins brought a tarantula on air in his animal slot and then put it in Andi's hands so he could get over his phobia of spiders. Everything went well for a few seconds until the tarantula moved and Andi dropped it on the studio floor, so Nutkins came in and picked it up. He created his own T.V. production company Backdoor in 2001. Peters' film credits include Toy Story 2 in which he supplied the voice of 'Male Baggage Handler 1', a role he was offered whilst interviewing director John Lasseter for Andi Meets Toy Story 2, a making of program. Peters became executive producer of Top of the Pops in 2003 and resigned from that role in 2005. He also created the teenage-aimed T4 programming strand on Channel 4 and currently presents daytime reality show City Hospital on BBC One. In January 2006, Peters took part in ITV1's reality ice-skating show Dancing on Ice. He was voted out in the second week, due to his 'awkward' and excessively camp skating style.[1] Along with fellow ex-contestant Andrea McLean, he presented fan show Dancing on Ice Extra every weekday on ITV for the rest of the show's run. On 8th March 2007 it was reported that Peters had broken his ankle during filming. Peters returned to ITV1 in June of 2006 to co-host the new Sunday morning cookery show, Sunday Feast. In 2006 Peters wrote a screenplay provisionally called "Doomroot" a childrens fantasy set in the near future, and based on a council eastate in Glasgow(uk). In September–October 2006, he co-presented Five's The All Star Talent Show with Myleene Klass. On 16 December, 2006, Peters made an appearance on ITV's X Factor. As in the previous year, Peters was stationed as a badger behind the scenes at the location of a CD factory, ready to launch production of the winner's single. Peters has also become something of a regular on BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles Show. This is despite his time on air being restrained by the show's producer Rachel Jones as the two share a mutual dislike of each other. This began when Peters once described Jones on-air as "vile". Since then Jones has restricted Peters air time, especially if she feels he is becoming self-indulgent - going as far as to remove him from the show on several occasions. Like many segments of The Chris Moyles Show, Andy has his own theme tune which is based on the song 'Rule Britannia'.
