Radio 1 DJ and presenter of hit television shows in the 1980s and 90s, he later launched his own business, Flying TV
Mike Smith, who has died aged 59 from complications following heart surgery, made an immediate impact on audiences after landing his own show on BBC Radio 1 in 1982. A year later, the fresh-faced DJ was presenting a string of popular television programmes. He began by co-hosting the BBC's Breakfast Time one day a week with Selina Scott and was given his own celebrity gossip series, Show Business (1983).
Alongside his spiralling television career, there was a return to Radio 1 to take over the flagship breakfast show (1986-88), which won Smith the Sony Awards DJ of the year honour two years running, and the Variety Club radio personality of the year title in 1987.
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