Jeremy Beadle
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Jeremy Beadle is a British television presenter. He was born on April 12, 1948 in London, UK.
After a career as a radio presenter renowned for on-air pranks, he became well known as one of the presenters of Game for a Laugh (along with Matthew Kelly, Henry Kelly and Sarah Kennedy), and is still commonly known in the UK as presenter of various "Candid Camera"-style programmes and practical joke shows.
He was very popular in his heyday in terms of viewing figures, though like other TV presenters such as Terry Wogan, did not win universal appeal; a British poll in the early 1990s revealed him to be the third most unpopular person alive, beaten only by Saddam Hussein and Anneka Rice.
He is also noted for being one of the first TV presenters with a visible disability, suffering from a 'withered hand', known as Poland's anomaly.
He is a Trust Patron of The Philip Green Memorial Trust, and he annually hosts a quiz party along with Crown Prince Shwebomin of Burma to raise money for disadvantaged children.
Beadle was diagnosed with leukaemia in April 2005, but the condition is thought not to be life-threatening. He had an operation to remove a cancerous kidney in 2004, and returned to British television screens in June 2005 with Star Stitch-Ups, a programme exploring the Candid Camera-style genre for which he was best known.
TV shows
- Game for a Laugh (1981)
- Eureka (1981)
- The Saturday Show (1983) - substitute host
- Beadle's About (1987)
- You've Been Framed (1990)
- GMTV (1993)
- Fistful of Fingers (1994)
- Win Beadle's Money (1999)
- Cheer for Charlie (2001)
- Celebrity Sleepover (2001)
- Ant & Dec's Banged Up With Beadle (2002 - part of Saturday Night Takeaway)
- Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do: University Challenge
In 1995 he presented the Sunday late-evening show on Talk Radio UK.