1. Dale Jonathan Winton was an English radio DJ and television presenter.
19 Facts About Dale Winton
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Dale Winton presented the shows Supermarket Sweep from 1993 until 2001 and again in 2007, the National Lottery game show In It to Win It between 2002 and 2016 and the 2008 series of Hole in the Wall.
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Dale Winton's father died on the day of his bar mitzvah and so he was brought up by his mother.
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Dale Winton's mother died by suicide in 1976 while suffering from depression.
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Dale Winton started DJing in clubs in Richmond in 1972, where he met Steve Allen, the LBC radio presenter.
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In 1982, Dale Winton moved to London and began his entertainment career on the London club circuit, where he DJ'd at weekends.
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In 2000, Dale Winton took over from Alan Freeman to present Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2, and hosted the show until 30 October 2010, when Tony Blackburn replaced him.
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Dale Winton began his television career in 1986 on Pet Watch, before working for Channel 4, Lifestyle Channel and ITV.
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Dale Winton portrayed himself as an irritating game show presenter in Danny Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting.
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Dale Winton was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2000 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel.
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In 2002, Dale Winton began presenting the National Lottery game show In It to Win It.
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Dale Winton presented BBC One's Saturday night entertainment programme Hole In The Wall in 2008, based on the Japanese original, where contestants in skin-tight lycra costumes contorted themselves to fit through oddly-shaped holes in a moving wall.
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Dale Winton appeared on Matt Lucas and David Walliams' BBC comedy series Come Fly With Me.
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Dale Winton appeared in the last episode of the series, playing himself.
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In 2012, he hosted one-off ITV game show Dale's Great Getaway and in February 2018, Winton hosted travelogue series Dale Winton's Florida Fly Drive aired on Channel 5.
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In 2002, Dale Winton released his autobiography in which he wrote about his rise to fame and his actress mother's suicide, and came out as homosexual.
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Dale Winton described Donald Trump's candidacy announcement for the 2016 US presidential election as "car crash TV", but added that Trump was "truly authentic".
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Dale Winton's friends celebrated his life with a non-religious humanist funeral ceremony by Humanists UK on 22 May 2018, his birthday.
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Dale Winton's eulogy was preserved as part of a public historical archive of humanist funerals.