Tobias Charles Tarrant (born 29 October 1991) is an English

radio broadcaster Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

on Radio X.

Career

Tarrant started his national radio broadcasting career on

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, presenting the early breakfast show in 2014. In October 2016, he moved to the same time slot on Radio X, presenting from 4am to 6:30am. He also began covering ''

The Chris Moyles Show ''The Chris Moyles Show'' is the title given to two differing versions of a radio programme hosted by Chris Moyles, originally broadcast as Radio 1 Breakfast from 5 January 2004 to 14 September 2012 before transferring three years later on 2 ...

'' when

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was on leave. Due to his profile being raised after increasing the listener figures on his early show by 29%, and also by appearing on Moyles' show, Tarrant moved to the mid-morning slot (10am-1pm) in April 2018, taking over from Jack Saunders. In October 2018, Tarrant won an episode of the

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show ''

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'' with fellow Radio X DJ

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(who replaced his father on the Breakfast Show at Capital).

Personal life

Tarrant is the youngest son of broadcaster

Chris Tarrant Christopher John Tarrant, (born 10 October 1946) is an English broadcaster, television personality and former radio DJ. He presented the ITV children's television show ''Tiswas'' from 1974 to 1981, and the game show ''Who Wants to Be a Milli ...

who previously presented the breakfast show on

between 1987 and 2004, and his former wife

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. One of his sisters, Fia, is a fellow radio broadcaster who works for

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. Tarrant attended Parkside School and

Reed's School Reed's School is an independent secondary boarding school for boys with a mixed sixth form located in Cobham, Surrey, England. There are currently around 700 day pupils (620 boys, 80 girls) with 100 full-time boarders (80 boys, 20 girls). The s ...

Cobham Cobham may refer to: Geography Towns or districts * Cobham, Kent, England * Cobham, Surrey, England * Cobham, South Australia, a former town in Australia * Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States * Cobham, Surry County, Virginia, U ...

, Surrey. Tarrant is a fan of

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and

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, and plays cricket for Surrey side Stoke D'Abernon. He has been dating Pippa Taylor, the executive producer of ''The Chris Moyles Show'', since July 2017. In 2018, Tarrant and Taylor moved in together and in order to help furnish the property, Moyles gave the listeners the

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gift list address. By the end of the show, all of the items had been purchased. Pippa announced their engagement on ''The Chris Moyles Show'' on 20 July 2020. They married on the 16th of September 2022. Tarrant ran the London Marathon for the charity "Make Some Noise" in 2018, achieving a time of 04:35:27 and placed 12,279th. He raised over £31,000 for his efforts. One of the main reasons for the high total was due to his agreement with Moyles that he would cycle around

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naked if he raised over £30,000.

References

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* 1991 births Living people English radio DJs English radio presenters People from Esher People educated at Reed's School People educated at Parkside School, Cobham {{UK-radio-bio-stub