Noel's House Party

The ironic thing there is I can imagine Philip Schofield being in a similar position once he's trying to cling on to his past glories.

The Last Leg showed the Priscilla Prim video last night as they attempted to dismiss Edmonds comments about positivity beating cancer, only for Russell Crowe to effectively back him up with a personal anecdote.

What does it matter? Noel can do what he likes, its not for the likes of us on here to talk about his personnel day to day deals if he want talk about past stuff so what, he spent 30 years doing stuff. I cant blame him for being bitter about how he got kick off Saturday night telly.

Let get this back on track: here is the timmy mallet Gotcha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQS5eOnPvvk

Again, the positivity thing isn't the problem here. It was his insensitivity towards the Twitter user and his adamance that the box could help beat cancer, something the manufacturers denied.

The manufacturers would have to deny it - doesn't mean they necessarily disagree with Noel personally.

Personally as a survivor myself, I thought his tweet was stupid and disrespectful. I have no problem with him tweeting about the box, but to suggest someone had cancer due to negative thought, was not a very nice thing to do.

The initial tweet he was responding to (since deleted) wasn't exactly respectful itself. Does having cancer give someone the right to get away with being unpleasant?

No, but I can understand how someone would respond with anger, if they were having a particularly bad day.

Does he have any involvement with the company?

Anytime you are making claims around cancer or its treatments, its a very touchy subject.

It has been suggested that his daughter is involved in distributing the product in question.

If this allegation is true, shame on Noel.

By way of a source for the allegation of his daughter's involvement:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/07/noel-edmonds-investigated-by-advertising-watchdog-after-endorsin/

Thanks,

There you go then, you could not make it up.



All is revealed, if true.

Noel should issue an apology at the earliest opportunity.

I can. And I before I start, I respect Noel as one of the best live television broadcasters still in the business.

But, if you put your name to the show, and (at the time) had a revenue sharing deal with the company you had shares in on format rights with the broadcaster who puts your show on it's network - you should have seen the train heading for the buffers long before the ugly crash, and took more of a interest in the standard of the content of the progamme when the warning sirens starting going off, instead of admiring how many passengers are on your train, and how many passengers are still standing on the platform of 'ITV' as you fly past them, in that train.

That was the problem. Noel was a too busy being a businessman for half the week, then Noel the tv presenter for the other half - and yet, it was the tv presenter Noel, that for him during the later run of House Party should have took priority when ideas started to run out of puff. and the enviable set redesign (which took the show further away from its original setting) or re-hasing of series 1 or 2 ideas, showed how taken for granted the viewers actually were.

Now, I'm not blaming Noel directly for some of these changes - to hear Alan Yentob talk about the show, it was like Edmonds and Mike Leggo/ Guy Freeman were almost untouchable at the BBC during that period, but when the cracks started to appear, the man at the top of the show and the viewing face should have got more visible in the production office and rallied the troops together and pulled the show back from the obvious abyss it was heading into.

Storming out, and not turning up for one edition was the most public way to highlight the issues with the show between 7.15pm on Saturday to 6.20pm the next Saturday at Television Centre with the show - but all that led to was a minor kick to the team and that 'the builders have been in during the summer to the great house' set redesign and more flashing lights around the set.

If anything, the plug should have been pulled before the 'walk out protest' edition in that series. But, as I think Noel has said before, when you are the top it's difficult to stop - but that is precisely the mindset you need to adopt during the last season of shows, and go out with good memories for the viewers, rather than drifting viewing figures and a sense of those that were still watching (in what would be classed today as a healthy set of numbers) "it was all better a couple of years ago"