Dollymarie Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 Poor sod, wonder what countdown will do now, and sorry ballwinningcentrehalf!Dollymarie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballwinningcentrehalf Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 I feel your pain.The more threads devoted to him the better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted June 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 its just a sad day when such a legends passing goes undiscussed.Dollymarie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 wow, first time i heard this news, quite shocked he has passed away, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted June 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 Died during an op on his heart earlier today.Dollymarie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claverham_Red Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 First I've heard of the news. Truly shocked he has passed away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardie Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 Apprantly Terry Wogan is going to present some countdown shows for a while. RIP Whitely, never really liked countdown but you seemed like a nice enough bloke, shocked by his death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DolmanDudess Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 Thought he was making a slow recovery. Pretty shocked by the news tbh...R.I.P Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annanimo Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 I wouldn't call him a legend but defninitely a great figure of TV. Just found out he'd died reading the posts on here. I will definitely miss him and Countdown will not be the same without him, his huge personality and non-funny jokes! God bless you Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukejones2 Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 First I've heard of the news. Truly shocked he has passed away.←Ditto... perhaps now my gramp can see him up there somewhere! He got me into countdown and together we used to fake laugh veciferously at Whiteley's dodgy puns..RIP Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fRed Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 I think he should be remembered with a museum of his cloths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 I think he should be remembered with a museum of his cloths.←According to Sky, at the last count he had 528 ties and 186 jackets, most of them sent in by viewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_84 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Genuine shock, last i'd heard he was booked in for a standard operation and would be returning to the show once he'd recovered. Thanks for the time wasting activities while a student and best wishes to his family. a true channel 4 legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest east_dundry_red Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Me and my flat mate gemma used to watch it on our thursday off. We Couldnt usually be arsed to do anything so used to cuddle up and watch countdown.R.I.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider head Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Presenter Richard Whiteley dies Richard Whiteley presented Countdown for over 20 years Television presenter and journalist Richard Whiteley has died just days after undergoing heart surgery. Whiteley, the host of Channel 4's daytime game show Countdown for 23 years, died in Leeds General Infirmary. The 61-year-old, from Ilkley, West Yorkshire, fell ill with pneumonia last month, but had been said to be recovering slowly. The agent for Whiteley's Countdown co-host, Carol Vorderman, said she was "absolutely devastated" by his death. Dearly loved John Miles said the pair were friends as well as colleagues who were very special to each other. It is easy to underestimate his strength on screen - he never outstayed his welcome Esther RantzenObituary: Richard Whiteley "He was such a good friend whom she loved dearly - they had 23 years of making programmes together, that's about 4,000 programmes," Mr Miles said. Channel 4 has yet to decide whether to continue broadcasting pre-recorded episodes of Countdown with Whiteley as host. A spokeswoman for the channel said they were "shocked and stunned" to hear of the death. He leaves behind a partner of 11 years, actress Kathryn Apanowicz, who featured in Eastenders during the 1980s and Emmerdale Farm in the 1990s. Incisive Before presenting Countdown, Whiteley had been a familiar face on Yorkshire Television since the late 1960s. Whiteley received an OBE last year As anchormhttp an on the channel's Calendar programme, he was subjected to an on-screen attack by a ferret, and was broadcast in negative - with white hair and a black face. But he was also an incisive political reporter who had interviewed every prime minister since Harold Macmillan. He was the first journalist to interview then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, after the Brighton bombing in 1984. Hugely missed Esther Rantzen, who was one of several guest presenters on Countdown, described him as "one of those people who made you smile". He did the programme so well on a friendly, human basis Austin Mitchell MP She said: "It is easy to underestimate his strength on screen - he never outstayed his welcome. "They won't be able to replace him. He will be hugely missed." Terry Wogan, a friend of Whiteley, said he was too upset to speak fully. "I'm shocked. It's terrible news," the BBC Radio 2 presenter said. Austin Mitchell MP, who knew Whiteley for 30 years, paid tribute to him as a man who "never put on airs and graces". "If he fluffed and fumbled that was natural. If he told awful jokes people liked that. He did the programme so well on a friendly, human basis," he said. Last November Whiteley was honoured with an OBE from the Queen, who is said to be a Countdown fan, as was the late Queen Mother. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4625119.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MaloneFM Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Spanner in the works time.If he was such a legend and a loss to the world of entertainment blah de blah de blah.Why have all the heartfelt tributes included the words 'Richard' 'Whiteley' and 'Countdown'? Is that what makes a legend? One teatime quiz show?I only arsked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collis Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 a true legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annanimo Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Spanner in the works time.If he was such a legend and a loss to the world of entertainment blah de blah de blah.Why have all the heartfelt tributes included the words 'Richard' 'Whiteley' and 'Countdown'? Is that what makes a legend? One teatime quiz show?I only arsked.←I don't think he's a legend, but let's face it, Countdown with Richard and Carol has lasted already 22 years longer than Channel 4 expected. The show didn't make him a legend, but he certainly played a part in making Countdown the popular gameshow it has been for the last two decades.I also live an hour away from Ilkley where he lived, and a lot of people there saw him as a down-to-earth, unassuming friendly gentleman, which is just how he came across on TV: likable and genuine. It's not hard to see how people feel a sense of loss now he is no longer here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukejones2 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Spanner in the works time.If he was such a legend and a loss to the world of entertainment blah de blah de blah.Why have all the heartfelt tributes included the words 'Richard' 'Whiteley' and 'Countdown'? Is that what makes a legend? One teatime quiz show?I only arsked.←No, being a part of peoples lives for so long is what makes him a legend. He is known for countdown and I, as others, have memories of him which involve countdown.That is why it is mentioned, he and the show are one and the same.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider head Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 No, being a part of peoples lives for so long is what makes him a legend. He is known for countdown and I, as others, have memories of him which involve countdown.That is why it is mentioned, he and the show are one and the same..←yep, my nan passed away a year ago and she loved that program so withhim and countdown it reminds me of her.the program was not fantastic but it took killed time while having yourtea with it on the tv at that time of the evening, and you just got usedto it being on in the background... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Spanner in the works time.If he was such a legend and a loss to the world of entertainment blah de blah de blah.Why have all the heartfelt tributes included the words 'Richard' 'Whiteley' and 'Countdown'? Is that what makes a legend? One teatime quiz show?I only arsked.←I think what makes him the legend is that he was one of the first ever if not the first person on channel 4 and has been unbelievably loyal to Countdown for 20+ years, peaople of all ages recognise him instantly, from me being 20 to an 80 year old Gran. He is Instantly recognisable to all people in this country from his name alone, so in my eyes classes him as a TV Great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 will his funeral music be the countdown theme?with the final "doo" as he is lowered into the grave?Seriously though RIP Whitely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukejones2 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 yep, my nan passed away a year ago and she loved that program so withhim and countdown it reminds me of her.←Exactly. Me too with my gramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shantrb Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 will his funeral music be the countdown theme?with the final "doo" as he is lowered into the grave?Seriously though RIP Whitely←Today's countdown conundrum is R.P.I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tactical Genius Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 PIR ? What the hell has Whitely's death got to do with movement sensors? Apart from the fact that he ain't going to be setting any off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MaloneFM Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 That's better. Sick jokes.Its what he would have wanted. No I want them more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bub The Zombie Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 PIR ? What the hell has Whitely's death got to do with movement sensors? Apart from the fact that he ain't going to be setting any off.←how do you know that???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest we8thegas Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 That's better. Sick jokes.Its what he would have wanted. No I want them more.←doctor walks into whiteley's ward,stands at the end of his bed,picks up his chart and stares at it looking confused,the nurse asks the doctor 'what's wrong doc?'to which he replies 'there's something wrong,THESE FIGURE'S DON'T ADD UP! getting my coat now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Red Hat Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 I think he should be remembered with a museum of his cloths.←Do you mean the dish cloth from his kitchen, and the one for cleaning the bath etc.?According to Sky, at the last count he had 528 ties and 186 jackets, most of them sent in by viewers.←I wonder if anyone ever sent in a wooden overcoat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest we8thegas Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 That's better. Sick jokes.Its what he would have wanted. No I want them more.←apparently when his life support machine went off it wentdo dodo dodo do do do doooooooooo going straight to hell for that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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