Tim Westwood Biography
Tim Westwood born Timothy William Westwood alias Westwood is an English DJ as well as a television and radio host. He presented the MTV UK show Pimp My Ride UK with his compilation albums making sales of up to two million copies and counting. His YouTube channel, where he interviews rap, drill and grime artists before they bust out exclusive freestyle rhymes, has 600,000 subscribers and one-third of a billion views. In 2013, Westwood left BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra after nearly twenty years and returned to Capital Radio where he currently hosts Tim Westwood Tv.
In the late 80s, Westwood was one of the first DJs in Europe to play hip-hop on mainstream radio. As host of the revolutionary BBC Radio 1 Rap Show, started in ’94, he became arguably the #1 importer of American hip-hop to the UK and beyond. He has sold over 1.7 million albums to date with the biggest selling urban compilation in history. Westwood DJs in the clubs to over 350,000 people a year. Westwood on Radio One is the top ranked hip hop show in the UK .
Tim Westwood Age |How Old Is Tim Westwood?
The turntablist was born on 3rd October 1957 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England and is 61 years old in 2018.
Tim Westwood Height
Tim is fairly tall. He stands at 6 ft 3 in (1.93 m) tall
Tim Westwood Family| Parents
Tim is the son of Bill Westwood, a former Anglican Bishop of Peterborough while his mother is called Shirley Jennings. Westwood grew up around the neighborhoods of East Anglia, attending the independent Norwich School, before later attending a local comprehensive.
Tim Westwood DJ Career
During his career; Westwood has DJed for many radio stations, including the newly formed radio stations Kiss FM (which he co-owned) and LWR in the 1980s, followed by mainstream station Capital FM (from 1987). In December 1994, following a shake up of Radio 1 by the then chief executive Matthew Bannister, he was given the new national Radio 1 Rap Show.
After appearing in the 1987 BBC Open Space documentary Bad Meaning Good, which was an early work of his own company Justice Entertainment, he achieved TV exposure in the late 1980s, on the ITV programme Night Network, produced by London Weekend Television.
More recently, he presented a series of his own television programme on UKTV channel UK Play, which has since ceased broadcasting. His Radio 1 show was produced by his independent company Justice Entertainment, which also produced Chris Goldfinger’s dancehall show for Radio 1 at the time.
Tim Westwood Drive-by Shooting
on 18 July 1999, the gangsta rap lyrics he loves became all too real when Westwood was the target of a drive-by shooting, after he had been playing at the Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park. Gunmen on a motorbike pulled up alongside his Range Rover in South London and opened fire.
“A bullet went through the back of my seat an inch from my spine,” he recalls. “Another bullet went through my arm and missed the nerves which would have left me paralysed. The guy in the back seat had his kneecap blown off. Am I not blessed? Thank God I’m alive and everyone survived.” We should all be thankful because Westwood is an unusual sort of national treasure. According to police reports, gunmen on a motorbike pulled up alongside his Range Rover and shot him and his assistant.
Tim Westwood Net Worth
The Dj is estimated to be worth $ 13 Million .Westwood earned his net worth over the years from his unique DJ profession and his talent in field of music and also, his musical biography.
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Tim Westwood Pimp My Ride UK
Westwood hosted the MTV series Pimp My Ride UK which ran for three seasons, from 2005 to 2007.
The show is an adaption of the American MTV series Pimp My Ride, featuring one car in each episode being renovated and customized (“pimped”) to match the owner’s interests.
A special episode of the show called “Pimp Madonna’s Ride” aired on MTV on Sunday 19 February 2006, the eve of the release of the single “Sorry”. The interior of the van was pimped by MTV UK for the single’s music video, which was filmed in London in January 2006. The exterior of the vehicle was kept original.
At the time, Pimp My Ride UK was the most successful MTV UK production of all time and the second highest rated show in the history of MTV Europe.
Tim Westwood Relationship
He is married to his girlfriend, Mathew with whom he was found dating from very long time. They have two children. He has a very smooth relationship with his wife so there is no any chance of divorce between them and he is also not a gay.
Tim Westwood Radio 1 |Radio shows
The DJ hosted the Capital FM Rap Show until he left the station in 1994. Afterwards, he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1994, to premier the national rap show in the UK, . In regards to live performance; the show was launched with a live concert by the late Notorious B.I.G. and Puff Daddy. The DJ’s Radio 1 Rap Show was the top ranked Hip Hop show in the UK.
While at the BBC, he would also host the weekday drive time show for 1Xtra from September 2009 until his replacement in September 2012 by Charlie Sloth.
After leaving the 1 Xtra drive time show, Westwood continued his Saturday night Rap Show which now ran from 21:00 until 23:00 & was a broadcast simulcast on BBC Radio 1 and on BBC Radio 1Xtra. It was announced on 26 July 2013 that he was leaving the BBC after nearly 20 years as part of planned schedule changes, which saw him parting ways on 21 September 2013.
Capital Xtra
Consecutively, the DJ rejoined Capital FM on their sister station, Capital Xtra, initially occupying the 21:00-23:00 slot on Saturday nights. His show on Capital Xtra then moved to a 19:00-22:00, followed by 19:00-0:00, but his show is currently between 19:00-23:00
Tim Westwood TV |Tim Westwood Freestyle
Tim Westwood TV is a weekly web series hosting years’ worth of archived footage from Westwood’s storied career and escapades that include hilarious interviews, wild party footage as well as arguablysome of the hottest freestyle sessions from prolific artists before they catapulted to fame.Westwood’s channel has over 395 million video views and over 750,000 subscribers.The channel has videos of freestyles & interviews from hip-hop & grime artists, including Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas,Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi,Will Smith, Drake, Rae Sremmurd as well as M.anifest and Nasty C.
Tim Westwood Criticism
In interviews, Sacha Baron Cohen has stated that Westwood, including his accent, was an inspiration for his fictional Ali G character; his alter ego and satirical fictional character who has ‘chavistic’ tendancies.
Westwood has been accused in the media of giving false statements about his age and background. In 2000, at the age of 43, Westwood insisted to a Guardian journalist that he was aged 27.
On 6 June 2006, BBC Radio 1 and Westwood’s show in particular was accused of encouraging knife and gun crime by the Leader of the Conservative Party and then Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron, who was speaking at a British Society of Magazine Editors event. Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt responded in a Press Association news agency article: “There’s been a debate about this particular genre of music for many years. Hip-hop is of great interest to many people in our audience. I strongly refute that any of our programmes condone violence, gun crime or knife crime”.
The Dj has been criticized for his apparent Black British pronunciation and dialect, which is claimed to be at odds with his white middle-class British origins. In response to this Westwood stated “Honestly, baby, I get love out there, pure and simple”.
Tim Westwood Soundboard
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Tim Westwood Albums
Westwood has released 14 compilation albums.
The Platinum Edition compilation was the biggest-selling British urban album of all time upon its release.
- Street Beats
- Westwood Volume 1
- Westwood Volume 2
- Westwood Volume 3
- UK Hip Hop 2002 Volume 1
- Westwood Platinum Edition 2003
- Westwood: The Jump Off
- Westwood 6: The Takeover
- Westwood 7: The Big Dawg
- Westwood 8: The Invasion
- Westwood Heat: Volume 9
- Westwood X
- Westwood 11: Ride with the Big Dawg
- Westwood: The Greatest
- Westwood: Hip Hop Club Bangers
Tim Westwood Awards & Nominations
Westwood has won several awards, including the 2016 Legacy Award at the GRM Daily Rated Awards, the 2010 Radio Academy John Peel Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music and the MOBO Awards for Best Radio DJ in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008.
He was named Best UK Radio DJ in the MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards in 2000, 2003 and 2005. He is a patron of the internal radio station at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in west London.
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