You did look a little bit as if women were treated as objects but it was part of the culture. The airwaves have lost an icon in Nicholas Parsons – the Just a Minute host with a shining intellect he never felt the need to show off. He appeared on US reality series 'The Bachelorette' in 2019.

Only Parsons could have held his own as the barbs and the one-liners glittered. First of all, we will look for a few extra hints for this entry: Just a Minute host. In September, he admitted his health problems stemmed from pushing himself too hard but he was looking forward to getting bck to work.

He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth.”. explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. He was best known for presenting Most Haunted. Parsons noted in more recent interviews that he wasn’t as spry as in the past and it pained him to have to give up squash. In a statement, her family confirmed she died of natural causes in Lewes, Sussex. "I never set out to be in Just a Minute – it was thrust upon me," he added. His legacy will live on with over 50 years of laughter-filled shows and the lasting friendships he made through his extraordinary career in show business.

Parsons, though, clearly loved both. Edd Byrnes played smooth-talking dance contest host Vince Fontaine in 1978 musical 'Grease'. "I think it's wonderful and exciting that things have changed. The rivalries on the show were at moments fierce.

You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. It was, in other words, a forum for rarefied show-offs – intellectual titans who needed, sometimes slightly desperately, for the world to hear them stomping about. He radiated through his decades on the airwaves a twinkling erudition. "They said I was mad and how could I when I had no contacts? Please respect her name and family before sharing information that did not come directly from here.” Groves was best known for her singles "This Little Girl" and "Oil and Water".

"The pilot was a disaster and the only thing they liked from it was me.". The musician, who was the British supergroup’s main vocalist, is said by a family member to have died from cardiac arrest on his way to hospital. He received critical acclaim for co-writing the 1967 Oscar-nominated film The Graduate, and also received a Best Director Academy Award nomination for the comedy Heaven Can Wait, alongside Warren Beatty. She's remembered for her roles in Boyz n the Hood, Hart of Dixie, and many other programmes including Beverly Hills, 90210, Full House, Melrose Place, The King of Queens, Sister, Sister, 7th Heaven, and ER. The actor and anti-racism campaigner, who starred in 'Doctor Who' and 'Fawlty Towers', died in June aged 81. He was thus the perfect man in the middle on Just a Minute, where, from its inception in 1967, he was infallible. The presenter was best known for presenting Love Island. 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