Jam Master Jay: Turning the pager

We're at a loss to understand exactly how it is that Jam Master Jay's two-way pager - which he lost a couple of days before he was shot - has only just emerged. Jay had left it behind at a Milwaukee club, and Eric Shake James had picked it up to give to him. But, of course, Jay was shot before he could be reunited with the device.

After three years, Shake has apparently realised that, you know, what with the death being a mystery, it could contain some crucial information. Having wasted three years, Shake knew exactly what to do - and put the pager into the hands of the proper authorities.

Or, at least, MTV. Tim Kash, to be precise, whose forensic skills have previously only been on display in the Top of the Pops Star Bar.

Shake's explanation for sitting on the pager (not literally, not with the vibrate function switched on) was vague:

"The pager's like a part of Jay," Shake says when asked why he's kept it all these years. "I keep it for memory's sake."

The main bulk of the messages, it turns out, are of the 'I just heard you've been shot' type that came through after news of Jay's death broke - and, somewhat oddly, people who had discovered he was dead asking Jay questions about the shooting, as if heaven got really good Cingular coverage. It's probably a lot less crucial to the case than MTV might be playing it.

And it's not entirely Shake's fault that he hasn't passed the pager over to cops - despite having hung out with Jay during his last days, he's never been spoken to by the investigation at all. The police, presumably, are ex-directory round his way.

Whatever happened to Tim Kash?

You and I might remember Tim Kash as one of the very worst of the run of bad presenters that Top Of The Pops suffered in its declining years. Nowadays, though, he's working for MTV delivering sub-Newsround "it's exciting behind the scenes" stories about Fox News for MTV.

Tim Kash has arrived in 2007

Good lord, apparently Tim Kash, presenter on The All New Top Of The Pops (he was kind of the Crazylegs Crane of the deal) is still hanging about the not-very-entertaining end of the entertainment industry, resurfacing as some sort of bagman for Puff Daddy.

According to 3AM:

"I was out part ying with P Diddy and a fight broke out between him and this other guy... I was in the middle and had to separate them. And all this commotion was over a girl!"

A girl, eh? Fancy that. Rather than, say, a bejeweled egg or arguing over suppy side economics.

We think Mr. Kash must be some sort of butler or something.

Kash in the attic

Have you been wondering whatever happened to former Top of the Pops host Tim Kash?

Oh go on, you could at least feign interest. Otherwise we'll just go back to Sting and the arab... aha, so you have been wondering? Good.

Apparently, he's landed a job with MTV in America. Yes, struggling MTV have decided the way ahead is to get Tim Kash onboard. It's a bit like being in a boat taking on water, and deciding you could bail out even faster if you ripped the bottom of the vessel out, isn't it?