Michael aspel biography
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael förnamn Aspel, OBE (born 12 January 1933) is an English television presenter, known for his reserved demeanour and rik speaking röst. He has been a high-profile TV personality in the United Kingdom since the 1960s, presenting programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel and Company, This fryst vatten Your Life, Strange But True and Antiques Roadshow. Aspel fryst vatten married to but separated from the actress Elizabeth Power, best known for her role in EastEnders. His current partner fryst vatten Irene Clarke. In April 2008 he was made a Freeman of the Borough of Elmbridge, Surrey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Watkins, licensed beneath CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael förnamn Aspel, OBE (born 12 January 1933) is an English television presenter, known for his reserved demeanour and rik speaking röst. He has been a high-profile TV personality in the United Kingdom since th
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A nationally known personality, firstly as a television newsreader (BBC Wales's first) and, subsequently, as a presenter of numerous television and radio programmes, Michael Aspel was heralded as the 'golden boy' of British television during the 1970s and 1980s.
Born into a working-class family in Battersea, London, on 12 January 1933, Aspel started his working life as an office boy with a company of publishers. National Service followed, from 1951 to 1953. His career began as a radio actor with the BBC in Wales in 1954 but he came to notice when he was hired as a guest announcer and newsreader for the BBC (Cardiff) in 1957.
In 1962, he was invited to host the annual Miss World (BBC, 1959- ) beauty contest, which he would do for a further 14 events. It was Aspel, whose deflating wit and boyish charm kept the pomposity within limits, who had the unenviable task of extracting two minutes of articulate charm out of the nervous contestants; on the demeaning level of: "I understand
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Michael Aspel
English TV presenter and newsreader (born 1933)
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| Born | Michael Terence Aspel[1] (1933-01-12) 12 January 1933 (age 92) Battersea, London, England |
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| Spouses | Dian Sessions (m. 1957; div. 1961)Ann Reed (m. 1962; div. 1967)Elizabeth Power (m. 1977; sep. 1994) |
| Partner | Irene Clarke (1994–present) |
| Children | 7 |
Michael Terence AspelOBE (born 12 January 1933) is a retired English television presenter and newsreader. He hosted programmes such as Crackerjack!, Ask Aspel, Aspel & Company, Give Us a Clue, This Is Your Life, Strange but True? and Antiques Roadshow.
Early life
[edit]Aspel was born on 12 January 1933 in Battersea in London.