Ian Collins (radio presenter)
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Ian Collins (born 24 October 1967, Scunthorpe) is a British Radio Presenter currently presenting Overnights on TalkSport with Lisa Francesca Nand (Chessy).
Ian is the TalkSports's longest serving presenter. He presented the Overnight show, Ian Collins and the Creatures of the Night from 1995 to 2002, then the Late-Night Weekend Show, Ian Collins: Unbranded from 2002 to 2004, he then replaced Mike Dickin on the mid morning show from 10am - 1pm, including a spell co-hosting the show with Mike Parry. In May 2006, Ian and Chessy replaced Mike Mendoza on weekday Overnights in a series of changes at TalkSport, which saw Mendoza move to weekend Overnights and Jon Gaunt replacing Collins on the mid morning show.
Ian is a supporter of Chelsea Football Club and is a big fan of the TV show Six Feet Under. He claims to like nothing better than sitting in front of the box to watch a DVD and detests the cinema environment.
He played a haemovore in The Curse of Fenric, a 1989 Doctor Who serial, and has had supporting roles in various TV programmes including The Bill and London's Burning.
In 2006 Collins continued TalkSport's association with Melbourne radio station SEN 1116 by appearing on the World Sport Overnight programme, exchanging classic Aussie-Pom banter with Peter Mercato and Craig Moore.
Collins features in both of Danny Wallace's books, Join Me and Yes Man and briefly in the collaboration with Dave Gorman, Are you Dave Gorman?. As Wallace's best-friend, he serves as voice of reason for the mad-cap author. Ian himself published a book, I Bet You Won't Read This: Confessions Of A Night Time Radio Host in 2000, which included unedited letters that had been sent into his show and also offered tips on how to get into the radio industry.
Ian was the last man to interview Peter Cushing.
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