Very sad to hear the news of the passing of Dale Winton, i didn’t realise that Dales career started long before Supermarket Sweep. It’s turning out to be a year of unexpected deaths of celebrities in their early 60s
Very sad to hear the news of the passing of Dale Winton, i didn’t realise that Dales career started long before Supermarket Sweep. It’s turning out to be a year of unexpected deaths of celebrities in their early 60s
He started out, as mentioned on UBN, an internal radio station fed to factories, then Radio Trent in Nottingham, followed by Beacon in Wolverhampton, Chiltern in Bedfordshire, and apparently (Blue) Danube Radio in Vienna
Does anyone remember The Other Half which Dale hosted? It was like Blind Date meets Mr & Mrs meets Cluedo. It ran for four series and was really entertaining but there's not really anything on YouTube. I remember its really catchy theme.
Does anyone remember The Other Half which Dale hosted? It was like Blind Date meets Mr & Mrs meets Cluedo. It ran for four series and was really entertaining but there's not really anything on YouTube. I remember its really catchy theme.
It lasted a couple of series. I remember it for the final game where the prizes gradually improved the more questions they answered correctly with the first two prizes being a trip around Spaghetti Junction and a trip around the M25.
Well sod me, I stand corrected. I'd googled the name of the show to no avail and assumed his TV career hasn't started til the 90s. I didn't think he was presenting that early on.
They showed clips of Pet Watch when he appeared on Frank Skinner's show about twenty years ago. He said he was trying to model himself on Gyles Brandreth and wore a succession of horrible woolly jumpers while looking at The Lighter Side Of Pets and then when it finished he didn't work again on television for years.
Does anyone remember The Other Half which Dale hosted? It was like Blind Date meets Mr & Mrs meets Cluedo. It ran for four series and was really entertaining but there's not really anything on YouTube. I remember its really catchy theme.
It lasted a couple of series. I remember it for the final game where the prizes gradually improved the more questions they answered correctly with the first two prizes being a trip around Spaghetti Junction and a trip around the M25.
I thought that was Winning Lines.
EDIT: UKGameshows has an M25 trip listed as a potential prize, but doesn't mention the prizes improving with more questions answered dynamic.
It reminds me of when Ronnie Hazlehurst died and everywhere reported he'd written Reach by S Club 7... because of a rogue edit in his wikipedia article. That even made it into the BBC's report on his death where they showed a clip from the video.
The bigger problem with that is that once it's been reported by a legit news outlet, that source can then be used as a citation on the Wikipedia article. So then it's, as far as Wikipedia's concerned, a fact.
