Lennie Bennett
Biography
Comedian who started out in the late days of variety theatre, then came to greater prominence with the BBC's Lennie and Jerry Show. He then went on to host Punchlines on ITV which ran for six years, and would turn up as a participant in all manner of shows, from Joker's Wild through Star Turn and Blankety Blank (on which he was a permanent panellist during the 1979 series) to The Railway Carriage Game and, somewhat less obviously, Driving Force.
He also appeared at many Royal Variety shows. In later years, Lennie hosted world-wide entertainment for corporate clients. The last we heard of him was on a "where are they now?"-type show in 2004, when he was running a burger bar, Fat B'Stards, in Blackpool.
He died on 8 April 2009 at the age of 70.
Trivia
He lost his virginity at the age of 13.
He hosted the opening night of Television South West in 1982, infamously declaring that TSW would stand for "Television Simply Wonderful" - a claim with which few critics (or viewers) agreed.
He was also known to be fond of a round of golf, and enjoyed the odd frame of snooker too.
