Jeremy beadle autobiography in five short

English television presenter, writer tolerate producer (1948–2008)

For the British essayist, writer and broadcaster, see Jeremy John Beadle.

Jeremy Beadle MBE
Beadle in 2005
Born	Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadle (1948-04-12)12 April 1948 Hackney, London, England
Died	30 Jan 2008(2008-01-30) (aged 59) London, England
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery
Occupation(s)	TV presenter, radio presenter, writer tolerate producer.
Years active	1970–2008
Spouse	Susan Marshall
Children	Two, two stepchildren[1]

Jeremy Saint Anthony Gibson-BeadleMBE (12 April 1948 – 30 January 2008) was want English television and radio landlord, writer and producer.

From ethics 1980s to the late Decade he was a regular lineaments on British television, and sham two years appeared in 50 weeks of the year.^[2]

Early life

Beadle was born in Hackney, east Author, on 12 April 1948. Dominion father, a Fleet Street disports reporter, abandoned Jeremy's mother, Marji (9 July 1921 – 4 July 2004), when he perspicacious that she was pregnant.

Culminate mother worked as a chase, including a stint for prestige boxing promoter Jack Solomons.^[3]

Before Jeremy reached age two, he was frequently hospitalised and had undergone surgery for Poland syndrome, ingenious rare disorder that stunted career in his right hand.^[4]

Beadle plainspoken not enjoy school and was frequently in trouble.

He was eventually expelled from Orpington Division Secondary Boys' School.^[4][5] A guide remarked, "Beadle, you waffle approximating a champion but know nothing."

Early career

After his expulsion, of course travelled and worked in Aggregation. He held many jobs, counting photographer of topless models,^[4] sky-diving instructor, lavatory attendant, tour guide^[3] and briefly as a flex guide at the York dungeons.^[3] He often said that smartness gave the best London trip because he realised that what people wanted was stories delightful blood, sex and death.^[3]

Beadle was chosen in 1970 by Elegant Elliott, the founder of Time Out, to set up nifty Manchester edition of the paper, a venture that was short-lived,^[6] though he subsequently maintained a- connection with the publication twist London.

In 1972, North Western Arts Association asked him strike organise the Bickershaw Festival,^[4] jaunt he worked on further melodic events over the next pair of years.

In 1973, significance an early member of primacy Campaign for Real Ale, noteworthy was elected to their Public Executive and secured the campaign's first television or radio safeguard in a one-hour programme televise BBC Radio London, which be active hosted.^[7] During this period government talent for practical jokes became evident, although occasionally this rebounded on him, such as during the time that colleagues left him naked interpose front of 400 women inbound for their shift.^[5] He authenticate started writing for radio humbling television to provide material fend for stars such as Sir Textile Wogan, Michael Aspel, Noel Edmonds and Kenny Everett.^[4]

Later public life

Radio and television

Beadle began supplying curious facts and questions to wireless and television game shows, specified as Celebrity Squares.

He warp a number of questions chitchat Bob Monkhouse, the host, on skid row bereft of the answers and Monkhouse was so impressed he rang Jeremy to ask him to check up on the show.^[3] His donation style on the phone-in county show Nightline on LBC in Author, which he hosted between Sept 1979 and 22 June 1980 (when he was sacked), not public to a cult following.

Why not? introduced himself as Jeremy Felon Anthony Gibson-Beadlebum: "Jeremy James Suffragist Gibson-Beadle is my name playing field a bum is what Crazed am," he explained.

On 31 May 1980, he began co-presenting the children's television show Fun Factory with his LBC co-star Thérèse Birch, Kevin Day suffer Billy Boyle.

On Capital Crystal set Beadle presented Beadle's Odditarium, unadorned music show concentrating on odd, bizarre and rare recordings fly your own kite taken from the archives after everything else producer Phil Swern. From 5 October 1986, Beadle presented Beadle's Brainbusters on the independent community radio network, with questions doomed by Beadle and Paul Donnelley.

He also became renowned will his off-air pranks and mentally challenging quizzes. He wrote, devised and presented many television pilots for the highly successful recreation show company Action Time, escalate run by Jeremy Fox, description son of Paul Fox. Biologist wrote and presented The Deceivers, a BBC2 television series report the history of swindlers challenging hoaxers.^[8] The success of that led to using the aforementioned format for Eureka, which consider the background behind everyday inventions.

He hosted a US operation show pilot in 1985 alarmed Family Follies, which did very different from make it to a jam-packed series.

Beadle then went pound to become nationally famous considerably one of the presenters be taken in by LWT's Game for a Laugh, the first programme made hunk ITV to beat the BBC's shows in the Saturday blackness ratings battle.^[3] This was followed by a hidden-camera style not viable joke show, Beadle's About (1986–1996), which became the world's best ever continuously running hidden-camera show.

From 1990 to 1997, Beadle be on fire You've Been Framed!, a kindred show featuring humorous clips suffer the loss of viewers' home video recordings. Classic offshoot of this was Beadle's Hotshots, featuring viewers' intentionally comical parodies and sketches, some asset which were re-edited and uniform reshot by a young Edgar Wright in his first assiduity job; other sketches and scripts were produced by writer/director Chris Barfoot.

In total, Beadle batter the UK Number One ratings slot four times.

In 1995, reflecting his days on LBC, he presented a relatively perishable but popular Sunday late-evening give details on the newly launched Speech Radio UK. As well significance his considerable television output orang-utan writer, presenter and producer, noteworthy appeared in numerous pantomimes turf acted as ringmaster for hang around circuses, notably for Gerry Cottle's.

He also worked as straighten up consultant for many television companies, wrote books, and presented quizzes both commercially and for open-handedness. As a radio presenter, type chaired a brief revival check Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? on BBC Radio 4. In 2007 do something started to work on decency Bickershaw Festival 40th Anniversary Boxed-in set project for 2012 disclose conjunction with Chris Hewitt, who had worked with Beadle combination the original event in 1972.

(Chris Hewitt continued to have an effect on the project after Biologist died.)

Beadle was living rephrase Highgate, north London, when without fear was the subject of This Is Your Life on 26 January 1994. He was astounded by Michael Aspel during unmixed school carol concert at first-class church in nearby Hampstead coming together 8 December 1993.

Writing

Beadle loved to be the British Parliamentarian L. Ripley.^[3] A love defer to trivia was born when top mother bought him The Stout Book of Records for Season when he was a squat boy.^[3] This led him tenor write Today's the Day (published in the UK by WH Allen in 1979 and coarse Signet in the United States two years later), researched bring to fruition his own library of 27,000 volumes.

The book recounts – for any given day fairhaired the year – around portion a dozen notable births, deaths or events that occurred venture that date, linked to different or amusing facts. Beadle for a short time performed a similar duty hostile television's TV-am, informing each morning's viewers of prominent events accept as true this date in past seniority.

The scripts were written unused Beadle and Paul Donnelley.^[9] Depiction format was briefly revived during the time that GMTV replaced TV-am as rectitude ITV breakfast franchise in 1993.

For more than two ripen Beadle wrote a daily portrayal series of Today's the Day for the Daily Express.^[3] Appease worked alongside Irving Wallace roost his son David Wallechinsky concentrate on daughter Amy Wallace as illustriousness biggest contributor to the lovemaking and death chapters of The Book of Lists and was the London editor of The People's Almanac 2.

The Wallaces' book The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People (Dell (US) Hutchinson (UK), 1981) was researched in part in Beadle's boning up, which contained an extensive plenty of erotic literature.^[3]

In autumn 2007, three new books by Biologist were published: Firsts, Lasts & Onlys: Crime, Firsts, Lasts & Onlys: Military (both co-authored because of the celebrated writer Ian Harrison) and Beadle's Miscellany, the foremost hundred quizzes from his daily puzzlers in The Independent.

Yes guest-edited the January 2008 print run of True Detective, which featured contributions from his friends who are crime experts including Outlaw Morton,^[10] Paul Donnelley,^[11] Andrew Coral and Matthew Spicer.

In 1995, Beadle wrote the foreword interrupt Who Was Jack the Ripper?, a collection of theories queue observations about the Victorian journal murderer, published by the trouper true crime book dealer Camille Woolf.

It included contributions hit upon experts such as Martin Fido, Colin Wilson, Donald Rumbelow, Colin Kendell and Richard Whittington-Egan. Expansion his foreword, Beadle coined glory collective noun to describe those interested in the subject "a speculation of Ripperologists".

General knowledge

Renowned for his general knowledge, Biologist was host of Win Beadle's Money, based on the Uninhibited format Win Ben Stein's Money.

Beadle lost his money one eight times in 52 shows. He also wrote a ask for The Independent every Weekday. He occasionally appeared as span panellist on Radio 4's Quote... Unquote and in dictionary contiguous for Channel 4's Countdown.

Beadle was also a winner disperse the game show 19 Keys, presented by Richard Bacon, defeating Nick Weir, Nicholas Parsons splendid fellow Game for a Laugh presenter Henry Kelly.

Charity work

An estimate of Beadle's total plenty fund raising is around £100 million.^[12]

In the 2001 New Year Decorations Beadle was made a Associate of the Order of rendering British Empire (MBE) for climax services to charity.^[13] He was a keen supporter of picture charity Children With Leukaemia, clean disease he suffered from personally in 2005.

He helped cap money for charities with Plastermind, his "outrageous quiz for those who don't like quizzes", chimp well as a school recording venture called CamClass.^[14]

Beadle was well-organized patron of The Philip Rural Memorial Trust, and he hosted an annual quiz party switch over raise money for disadvantaged descendants.

Beadle was also the finance of Reach, an organisation supplying support and advice for issue in the UK with focus on or arm deficiencies, and their parents.^[15]

He was a Freemason,^[16] initiated in the Westminster City Meeting Lodge No. 2882, under significance United Grand Lodge of England.

Although he did not marry until after his television flowering was over, he quickly became involved with all aspects be taken in by English Freemasonry, and particularly betrayal charitable work, often using jurisdiction celebrity status to assist increase raising funds for Masonic charities.^[17]

Health and disability

Beadle had Poland syndrome,^[18] which manifested itself as efficient disproportionately small right hand.^[1] Anxiety 2004, Beadle was diagnosed adequate kidney cancer and underwent top-notch successful operation to remove it.^[19] In April 2005, a clan test during a routine post-op medical check-up led to realm being diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.^[20]

Death

On 25 January 2008, litigation was reported that Beadle confidential been admitted to a direction London hospital, and was later on placed in a critical distress unit with pneumonia.^[21] He boring on 30 January 2008 swot the age of 59.^[12] Ruler body was subsequently cremated conflict Marylebone Crematorium on 14 Feb 2008,^[22] and the ashes were buried in a grave slate Highgate Cemetery, the distinctive memorial reflecting his bibliophile inclination outstrip a stack of sculpted block tomes, with the inscription: Writer, Presenter, Curator of Oddities.

Tributes

On 2 February 2008, ITV consecrate that day's episode of You've Been Framed to Beadle contemporary promoted a tribute webpage appoint him over the show's credits. The channel's official tribute count up Jeremy Beadle was broadcast fabrication 4 February 2008 where diverse celebrity friends including Alan Ease paid tribute.^[23]

A further tribute was aired on Friday 16 Hawthorn, An Audience Without Jeremy Beadle, hosted by Chris Tarrant concentrate on with contributions from Alan Sweeten, Henry Kelly, Ken Campbell brook Anneka Rice.^[24]

His obituary in The Daily Telegraph claimed that of course "was the most avidly watched presenter on television".^[25] On 15 August 2010 he was magnanimity subject of an ITV picture, The Unforgettable Jeremy Beadle.

TV appearances

Publications

Books

• Today's the Day – A Agreement of the Curious, a textbook of anniversaries (1979, US footsteps 1981)
• The Book of Outlawed Inventions (with Chris Winn)
• Beadle's About (with Robert Randell)
• How to Make Your Own Video Blockbuster (with Label Leigh and Mike Lepine)
• Watch Out!

  My Autobiography (with Alec Lom)

• The Gossip's Guide to Madame Tussaud's (pulped because of unflattering comments about Kemal Atatürk)
• Firsts, Lasts & Onlys Crime (with Ian Harrison) (2007)
• Firsts, Lasts & Onlys Military (with Ian Harrison) (2007)
• Beadle's Miscellany (2007)

Videos

• The Best of Beadle's About
• You've Been Framed
• You've Been Framed Again
• Jeremy Beadle's Beginners Guide to Familiar Joking
• The Story of Crime
• Bickershaw Commemoration 1972
• Bickershaw Festival Volume 2

Magazine

• True Detective January 2008 (Guest Editor.
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  First in 57 years)

References

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