English television presenter and newsreader (born 1933)
Michael Aspel
OBE
Born
Michael Terence Aspel[1]
(1933-01-12) 12 January 1933 (age 91)
Battersea, London, England
Occupations
TV presenter
radio presenter
journalist
Years active
1957–2008, 2023
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.
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Michael Terence Aspel OBE (born 12 January 1933) is a retired English television presenter and newsreader. He hosted programmes such as Crackerjack, Ask...
is a mother of two. She married the British television personality, MichaelAspel, in 1977. Their marriage ended in 1994. She is a skilled dancer and...
He also took over as host of Thames Television's Give Us a Clue from MichaelAspel from 1984, while in 1985, he stood in for Barry Norman as presenter...
was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1997 when he was surprised by MichaelAspel on his birthday. Brown was a supporter of the Conservative Party and...
subject on This Is Your Life for the second time when he was surprised by MichaelAspel during a book-signing session in Selfridges on London's Oxford Street...
Ask Aspel was a British television series produced by the BBC and hosted by MichaelAspel. The format of the show, which first ran from 1970 until 1974...
Angela Rippon (1979) Arthur Negus (1979–1983) Hugh Scully (1981–2000) MichaelAspel (2000–2007) Fiona Bruce (2008–) Antiques Roadshow has a team of experts...
and help launch its on-line antiques business, and was replaced by MichaelAspel. From 1988, Scully ran a television production company, Fine Art Productions;...
added tests of intelligence and personality. In 1984, BBC1 controller Michael Grade announced that the corporation would cease to broadcast beauty pageants...
Crackerjack with Eamonn Andrews and Leslie Crowther in the 1960s, and with MichaelAspel, Don Maclean and Bernie Clifton in the 1970s. In Crackerjack sketches...
Shaft Barracks, Dover. The narration was provided by Peter Graham with MichaelAspel reading the quotations from source material. The War Game itself finally...
was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2000 when he was surprised by MichaelAspel on the set of Doctors at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham...
the subjects of This Is Your Life in 1997 when they were surprised by MichaelAspel live on air while broadcasting This Morning. In 1998, Finnigan presented...
David Vine, David Jacobs, Dave Lee Travis, Pete Murray, John Dunn and MichaelAspel. Terry Wogan provided BBC TV commentary from 1980 to 2008, after which...
Laughton, Roger Manvell, Laurence Olivier, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Michael Balcon, and other major figures of the British film industry. In...
and television to provide material for stars such as Sir Terry Wogan, MichaelAspel, Noel Edmonds and Kenny Everett. Beadle began supplying odd facts and...
was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2001 when he was surprised by MichaelAspel while dining with friends at a central London restaurant.[citation needed]...
the subject of This Is Your Life in 1998, when he was surprised by MichaelAspel at Pinewood Studios. Thornton died from natural causes peacefully in...
was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2003 when he was surprised by MichaelAspel on the set of Merseybeat.[citation needed] In 2006, McArdle portrayed...
the subject of This Is Your Life in 1998, when she was surprised by MichaelAspel on the set of Coronation Street. In 2012, Kirkbride completed a documentary...
the subject of This Is Your Life in 2001 when she was surprised by MichaelAspel. Earlier, in 1974, she had been the featured castaway on Desert Island...
11, he was cast in a school play, This Is Your Life, Santa Claus, as MichaelAspel. Upon the suggestion by a teacher, his parents then signed him up for...
of an episode of This is Your Life in 1999, when he was surprised by MichaelAspel.[citation needed] Bannen was killed, aged 71, in a car accident near...
was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2000 when he was surprised by MichaelAspel. In 2001, he presented Channel 5's endurance show Touch the Truck. In...