1. Jeremy Beadle's mother worked as a secretary, including a stint for the boxing promoter Jack Solomons.
39 Facts About Jeremy Beadle
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Jeremy Beadle did not enjoy school and was frequently in trouble.
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Jeremy Beadle was eventually expelled from Orpington County Secondary Boys' School.
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Jeremy Beadle held many jobs, including photographer of topless models, sky-diving instructor, lavatory attendant, tour guide and briefly as a tour guide at the York dungeons.
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Jeremy Beadle was chosen in 1970 by Tony Elliott, the founder of Time Out, to set up a Manchester edition of the magazine, a venture that was short-lived, though he subsequently maintained a connection with the publication in London.
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Jeremy Beadle then started writing for radio and television to provide material for stars such as Sir Terry Wogan, Michael Aspel, Noel Edmonds and Kenny Everett.
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Jeremy Beadle began supplying odd facts and questions to radio and television game shows, such as Celebrity Squares.
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Jeremy Beadle sent a number of questions to Bob Monkhouse, the host, without the answers and Monkhouse was so impressed he rang Jeremy to ask him to work on the show.
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Jeremy Beadle's presenting style on the phone-in programme Nightline on LBC in London, which he hosted between September 1979 and 22 June 1980, led to a cult following.
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Jeremy Beadle introduced himself as Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadlebum: "Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadle is my name and a bum is what I am," he explained.
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On Capital Radio Jeremy Beadle presented Jeremy Beadle's Odditarium, a music show concentrating on strange, bizarre and rare recordings all taken from the archives of producer Phil Swern.
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Jeremy Beadle became renowned for his off-air pranks and intellectually challenging quizzes.
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Jeremy Beadle wrote, devised and presented many television pilots for the highly successful game show company Action Time, then run by Jeremy Fox, the son of Paul Fox.
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Jeremy Beadle wrote and presented The Deceivers, a BBC2 television series recounting the history of swindlers and hoaxers.
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Jeremy Beadle hosted a US game show pilot in 1985 called Family Follies, which did not make it to a full series.
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Jeremy Beadle then went on to become nationally famous as one of the presenters of LWT's Game for a Laugh, the first programme made by ITV to beat the BBC's shows in the Saturday night ratings battle.
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In total, Jeremy Beadle hit the UK Number One ratings slot four times.
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Jeremy Beadle worked as a consultant for many television companies, wrote books, and presented quizzes both commercially and for charity.
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Jeremy Beadle was living in Highgate, north London, when he was the subject of This Is Your Life on 26 January 1994.
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Jeremy Beadle was surprised by Michael Aspel during a school carol concert at a church in nearby Hampstead on 8 December 1993.
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Jeremy Beadle briefly performed a similar duty on television's TV-am, informing each morning's viewers of prominent events on this date in past years.
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For more than two years Jeremy Beadle wrote a daily cartoon series of Today's the Day for the Daily Express.
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Jeremy Beadle guest-edited the January 2008 edition of True Detective, which featured contributions from his friends who are crime experts including James Morton, Paul Donnelley, Andrew Rose and Matthew Spicer.
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Jeremy Beadle lost his money only eight times in 52 shows.
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Jeremy Beadle wrote a quiz for The Independent every Saturday.
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Jeremy Beadle occasionally appeared as a panellist on Radio 4's Quote.
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Jeremy Beadle was a winner on the game show 19 Keys, presented by Richard Bacon, defeating Nick Weir, Nicholas Parsons and fellow Game for a Laugh presenter Henry Kelly.
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Jeremy Beadle was a keen supporter of the charity Children With Leukaemia, a disease he suffered from himself in 2005.
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Jeremy Beadle helped raise money for charities with Plastermind, his "outrageous quiz for those who don't like quizzes", as well as a school video venture called CamClass.
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Jeremy Beadle was a patron of The Philip Green Memorial Trust, and he hosted an annual quiz party to raise money for disadvantaged children.
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Jeremy Beadle was the patron of Reach, an organisation providing support and advice for children in the UK with hand or arm deficiencies, and their parents.
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Jeremy Beadle was a Freemason, initiated in the Westminster City Council Lodge No 2882, under the United Grand Lodge of England.
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Jeremy Beadle had Poland syndrome, which manifested itself as a disproportionately small right hand.
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In 2004, Jeremy Beadle was diagnosed with kidney cancer and underwent a successful operation to remove it.
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On 25 January 2008, it was reported that Jeremy Beadle had been admitted to The London Clinic and was placed in a critical care unit with pneumonia.
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Jeremy Beadle died there on 30 January 2008, aged 59.
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Jeremy Beadle's body was cremated at Marylebone Crematorium on 14 February 2008, and the ashes were buried in a grave at Highgate Cemetery, the distinctive headstone reflecting his bibliophile inclination with a stack of sculpted stone tomes, with the inscription: Writer, Presenter, Curator of Oddities.
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On 2 February 2008, ITV dedicated that day's episode of You've Been Framed to Jeremy Beadle and promoted a tribute webpage to him over the show's credits.
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The channel's official tribute to Jeremy Beadle was broadcast on 4 February 2008 where various celebrity friends including Alan Sugar paid tribute.