Mike Parry

Mike Parry is head of sport at talkSPORT and also co-hosts the weekend morning show with Andy Townsend.

He is known jovially by many as a ginger tube.

Parry suffered health problems caused by being severely overweight, and was awaiting a heart transplant in September 2004. [1] His health has subsequently improved through a combination of successful drug treatment and living a healthy lifestyle. Parry is now back on the airwaves, in a slimmed down form, and no longer drinks.

He originally co-presented the Sports Breakfast with Alan Brazil, but after the onset of his health problems, has been replaced by Graham Beecroft. As Mike's health improved he gained his doctor's permission to co-present The Game with Paul Breen-Turner and subsequently the weekday morning show with Ian Collins. He currently presents the weekend breakfast show with former footballer Andy Townsend.

Often Parry will mispronounce or misuse a word/name, or explain matter-of-factly something that is utterly absurd, for comedic value.

Mike lives in Stockbroker belt surrey, and has several other Houses in his Portfolio. He is a great animal lover and regularly feeds his local swans and their Signets.

Mike is an avid Everton Fan, and particulary loves Wayne Rooney. He predicted Rooney would become one of the world’s greatest players when Wayne was very young. At the time this seemed like one of Mike’s nonsensical rants but it has been almost scarily accurate.