Jeremy Beadle

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Jeremy Beadle is a British television presenter, writer and producer. He was born on April 12, 1948 in Hackney, London, UK.

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Television

After undertaking a series of non-career jobs in his youth, he began writing for radio and television. He wrote for Terry Wogan, Kenny Everett, Noel Edmonds, Bernard Manning and Celebrity Squares.

He later went on to present his own shows, Beadle's About, You've Been Framed and Beadle's Hotshots. He was very popular in his heyday in terms of viewing figures, though unlike other TV presenters such as Terry Wogan, Beadle 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 although the poll in Punch featured less than 1,000 participants.

Beadle returned to British television screens in June 2005 with the one-off Star Stitch-Ups, a programme exploring the Candid Camera-style genre for which he was best known.

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Radio

As a radio presenter for a late-evening phone-in show on LBC in London (where he used to announce himself as Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadlebum) he developed something of a cult following, becoming renowned for his on-air pranks and intellectually challenging quizzes. He then went on to become nationally famous as one of the presenters of LWT's 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. In 1995 he presented a hugely popular Sunday late-evening show on Talk Radio UK.

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Disability

He is also noted for being one of the first TV presenters with a visible disability, suffering from a 'withered hand', known as Poland syndrome. He is patron of Reach, the charity that supports those affected by similar conditions. Beadle was mocked for this disability during an episode of sitcom The Office. Ricky Gervais, the show's creator, was called to apologise, but refused "due to factors".

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General Knowledge

A love of trivia led him to write Today's the Day, (published in UK by WH Allen in 1979 and by Signet in the USA two years later), and for more than two years he scripted a daily cartoon series of the same name for the Daily Express. He worked alongside Irving Wallace and son David Wallechinsky and daughter Amy Wallace as the biggest contributor to the sex chapter of the sensationally successful Book of Lists and was the London editor of The People's Almanac 2. The Wallaces' book The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People (Hutchinson, 1981) was researched in part in Beadle's library.

Famous for his general knowledge, he was host of Win Beadle's Money (based on the US format Win Ben Stein's Money) he lost only 8 times in 52 shows. He has written a notoriously difficult quiz at London's The Atlantic Grill restaurant, usually attended by celebrities and members of the press. He also currently writes a quiz for The Independent every Saturday. He occasionally appears as a panelist on BBC Radio 4's Quote... Unquote.

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Charity Work

He became an MBE for his services to charity. Beadle is a keen supporter of the charity Children With Leukaemia, and by unfortunate coincidence he was diagnosed with leukaemia in April 2005. The condition is not thought to be life-threatening, though he had an operation to remove a cancerous kidney in 2004.

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.

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TV shows

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