Education
Originally from Northampton, Anstis was educated at an all-boys school, Desborough School, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and later graduated in Psychology and Marketing from the University of Surrey Roehampton.
Originally from Northampton, Anstis was educated at an all-boys school, Desborough School, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and later graduated in Psychology and Marketing from the University of Surrey Roehampton.
Since January 2009, his show has been broadcast around the United Kingdom to the former local stations now branded as Heart. Anstis" first break came when he appeared in The Broom Cupboard on Children"s British Broadcasting Corporation each weekday afternoon from April 1992 to September 1995. He then hosted The O-Zone music show on BBC2.
Anstis then moved into radio, presenting for the Liberty Radio breakfast show, and was also a presenter for various programmes on Challenge (such as television Scrabble), before moving to Heart FM in 2002.
In 2004, he appeared in the Living television reality show. Anstis co-hosted Children in Need, The National Lottery Live and Grandstand on British Broadcasting Corporation One, as well as Fan TC with Dannii Minogue and Electric Circus for Live & Kicking, and Bright Sparks.
He also presented Trust Maine – I"m a Holiday Representative on Channel 5. In November 2006, he took part in the sixth series of the Independent Television show and was the first person to be voted out of the show, although it was reported the next day in various tabloids including The Sun that there had been a voting error and Dean Gaffney should have gone.
In 2007, he was a judge on Video Hits One"s Wannabe and featured on The Killer In Maine for ITV1 along with Fiona Phillips (GMTV), football player John Barnes and political presenter Andrew Neil.
In 2009, he featured on Ready Steady Cook and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. In 2011, he appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation quiz show Eggheads and was the first ever honorary "Loose Manitoba" on Independent Television Loose Women and made his stage debut as Teen Angel in the West End production of Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre on 25 January 2010. In 1992 Anstis took part in a charity fun run for Help the Aged.
He has raised over £4,000.
In 1994, he took part in an episode of Challenge Anneka, where he contributed a spaghetti bolognese recipe to a book in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Anstis is also an ambassador for The Prince"s Trust.