Frank Bough
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Frank Bough (surname pronounced "Boff") (1933-) is a former British television presenter.
Frank was born in Stoke on Trent, Shropshire. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, reputedly being one of the last generation of undergraduates to be awarded a fourth class degree. He played football for the university against Cambridge, and served his national service in the Royal Tank Regiment. He married Nesta after leaving the army.
He began presenting sport programmes for the BBC. In 1964 he began presenting the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, which he would host of eighteen years. He also presented Sportsview, and in 1968 the BBCs flagship Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand. He went on to present the early evening news programme, Nationwide. He was a roving holidaymaker in the BBC's Holiday programme; and co-presenter of the BBC's first serving of breakfast television, called Breakfast Time.
In the early 1990s he was a presenter on London's LBC radio, staying on for the launch of London News Talk and moving to the News 97.3 service where he remained until 1996.
He has also made headlines after being found in a S&M brothel in 1992, and after having a liver transplant in 2001.
"Frank Bough" has entered cockney rhyming slang, "I'm Frank Bough" meaning "I'm off".
External links
- BBC site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2000/sports_personality/1021673.stm)