Farewell dear Beadle

Sad news that Jeremy Beadle has passed away aged just 59. I always thought he was a bit under-rated and is certainly better fare than any of the funsters we currently have fronting prank-style programmes (Hello I'm Steve Penk).

The abiding memory for me about Beadle was that when it came to the great reveal and he whipped off part of the disguise (invariably a police uniform) and produced the microphone he always kind of just stood there gurning whilst poor Joe Public let loose a string of expletives in his direction. He never introduced himself or anything, just pointed the microphone. Although most conversations were heavily bleeped I'm sure it was something like:

"You fucking cunt! You utter, utter bastard! Fuck off! Fuck you you beardy faced wanker........oh, sorry I thought you were Richard Branson. Ha ha, nice one Jeremy, you really got me there. Oh, wait til I tell the wife this one."