RIP Hugh Scully

RIP indeed.

The perfect presenter for TAR.

Surprised he was only 72. I've have had him as turned 80.

arthur negus and now hugh scully. who next?


both younger than kenny too

Yes, much younger.

Gordon Honeycombe 79

Jim Diamond 64

While reading about the sad demise of Honeycombe, I followed a link to Reggie Bosanquet. What a bloke!

Reggie Bosanquet was a man who could safely be described as old school. In order to de-stress from the pressures of slurring the News at Ten from the side of his mouth every night during the 1970s, he purchased himself a bar billiards table and installed it in the family home. "It is my contention that the saving grace of men is their ability to get engrossed in some trivial pastime or diversion which protects them from the basically feminine failing of becoming neurotic," he reasoned. His wife Felicity having taken understandable umbrage to a pub game becoming the centrepiece of their flat, divorce was not long in coming. After Felicity cleared out her things, Bosanquet was forced to clamber up a drainpipe in order to gain access to his now-empty abode. Subsequently fingered for breaking and entering, he lost his gigs as Patron of the All-England Bar Billiards Association and member of the judging panel for the prestigious Dustman of the Year awards, and was carpeted by ITN bosses for his trouble to boot.

This sort of character simply wouldn't get within 500 yards of a camera these days, and more's the pity. A renowned boozer, Bosanquet - whose father Bernard, a cricketer for Middlesex, is credited with the invention of the googly - was often asked to prove his sobriety before broadcasting by walking along a line specially painted on the ITN floor. "I like having a drink," he admitted in the most aptly titled autobiography in the history of publishing, Let's Get Through Wednesday. "An item in one of the papers recently told of my receiving a TV camera crew at my flat at 10am for an interview and 'of course Reggie was found to be into the champagne'. This was stated as though it were something terrible! But apart from weddings, when else does one drink champagne except at breakfast?"

Excellent

Scratching me head trying tob think who named him Reg Boozinget.

I resemble that remark, Fishwick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17q1VMHz8E

Geoffrey Howe 88

Let's not forget  David Barby.....

Died in July '09 age 69.  Hard to believe it was six years ago. I would have said two!!!

Reggie had is own single out, don't think it charted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpwVB_NGM1E

he died in 2012 didn't he AP?

Gordon gone to the Studio in the Sky to rejoin Reggy,Andrew Gardner etal.
Sandy Gall I think the only one left from that ITV generation.

From that era bu a BBC man, Richard Baker still going too. 90 now.

I thought that Gordon Honeycombe already died back in the late 90's

or am I getting him mixed up with another tv-am newsreader?

And Geoffrey Howe too.

Aunty Post    10 Oct 15 13:59 
Let's not forget  David Barby.....

Died in July '09 age 69.  Hard to believe it was six years ago. I would have said two!!!.




Three years ago !

Born: April 23, 1943, Rugby
Died: July 25, 2012, Coventry

It was Private Eye who named Bosanquet "Ronnie Beaujolais".

They published a long-running romantic serial by Dame Sylvie Krinn, which detailed the innocent young Anna Ford's romantic yearnings for her distinguished older colleague. Time and again she would gaze adoringly at Bosanquet as he delivered the "And finally ..." item with consummate professionalism and a twinkle in his eye, and time and again her hopes would be cruelly dashed as he then slid unconscious beneath the desk.

A lot of people forget that Michael Aspel was a regular newsreader for the Beeb in the 70s.
Still going strong at 82.

Reggie bosanquest was a legend, he was having a fling with the actress Queenie watts in the late 60s,
She had a pub in the east end which he frequented , he and Gordon Honeycombe were regulars, my mate remembers one christmas in the early 70s, Honeycombed was having a drink with the actress Doris Hare , when he's wife walked in and found them very cosy, she went ballistic . Glasses and chairs thrown all over the boozer

Reggie was indeed a legend of the news screen together with his syrup - a lethal combination!

Personal favourite was Sir Alastair Burnett who always offered a little anecdote at the end of news at ten before he said in his distinctive voice - that is the news "good evening"

absolutely top class