R.I.P Richard Whiteley

The best thing about Richard Whitely was that he hosted a daytime gameshow without getting up a single person's tits. That is a SERIOUS achievements when you think about all the annoying little shits who host other game shows. Even Bruce Forsyth has his haters. And which is more, Richard Whitely did it for 23 years and didn't miss a single recording of countdown!

 

dunno...

 

LIighten up!

Someone died, we big him up and rememeber him for what he was good at.. as everyone who passes away should have done for them!

 

He was a very entertaining guy, and like Sax Machine said, he did it without going overboard.

If not having the same impact that Elvis did somehow makes someone's entire career less important to someone, good for them. Their loss.

 

Richard was a daytime TV legend. And he also had a home over here. RIP.

 

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Obituary: Richard Whiteley


during his days as a journalist, Whiteley had established himself as a good-naturedly cheeky interviewer of politicians. He had interviewed every prime minister from Harold Wilson onwards, and came nearest to provoking an explosion when he talked to the Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, who was very touchy on the subject of her husband Denis's first wife.
Whiteley asked her: "Why wasn't it revealed until recently that you are, in fact, the second Mrs Thatcher?" Her steel was in her smile: "Oh, quite simply, because no one had asked."



http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1516002,00.html

Although you were difficult to watch and i could never get the No.s game and only at a stretch get 6 on the letters game.. I will miss your TV show...and you on it. R.I.P

 

My little boy learnt the alphabet from watching countdown. Parenting or what??

 

I heard a tasteless, but rather funny joke this morning, my mate texted it to me:

"Poor old Richard Whiteley, at least he went out with a nine letter word - pneumonia."

It's sad he's dead, but given his sense of humour, I think he'd have a laugh at that

 

i was soooooo shocked when i saw that on channel 4! i really wasnt expecting it i didnt even know he was ill...who is gonna replace him on countdown? could there ever be a replacement? meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

 

no-ones replacing him...they're just not making anymore...

 

hahahaha im liking it. maybe he could of learnt how to spell from that too, had good old richie been around a while longer.