Career
Lovett was born in Windsor, Berkshire. Lovett is divorced and has two daughters, Lily and Kitty. Prior to his performing career, Lovett did office and manual work with the final job at the Whitechapel Art Gallery as an attendant.
In 1989, he appeared in his own surreal BBC2 sitcom called I, Lovett, in which he played a character called Norman.
Seven years later, he played Doctor Lovett in the short-lived sitcom Asylum which spawned many other successful careers. He has made a number of acting appearances such as the Ghost of Christmas Past in a television adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Mr Follett in The History of Tom Jones, the film The Criminal, as well as the British Broadcasting Corporation sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, and a cameo appearance in The Young Ones in the episode "Summer Holiday".
He has been in The Bill and three episodes of the Scottish sitcom Rab C Nesbitt. In 2006, he appeared in the low-budget British horror film Evil Aliens.
In 2009, Lovett said he would not take part in any further Red Dwarf productions, after a disagreement.
However, in November 2012, following the success of Red Dwarf X, he stated that he has begun speaking with Doug Naylor again.