 Ashmawy co-hosted "Weekend Breakfast with Baz & Lucy" on RTÉ 2fm in 2010, and co-presented the 2008 reality show "Fáilte Towers" on RTÉ One, as well as the popular travel show "How Low Can You Go" on RTÉ Two.In 2018 he began presenting ITV's new singing show – Change Your Tune.According to an article in "The Nationalist" (Carlow), Ashmawy's mother Nancy is from Ballycoogue, Ballycoogue, Avoca, County Wicklow although Ashmawy was born in Libya and is part-Egyptian.