Stuart Hall

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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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Long-serving football reporter and host of ''Look North West'' and ''North West Tonight'', Hall is best known for his tendency to crack up laughing at the antics of contestants on [[It's a Knockout]] and his frequently irritating habit of demanding reactions from breathless competitors as soon as they'd crossed the finish line.
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Long-serving football reporter and host of ''Look North West'' and ''North West Tonight''. Hall was best known for his tendency to crack up laughing at the antics of contestants on [[It's a Knockout]] and his frequently irritating habit of demanding reactions from breathless competitors as soon as they'd crossed the finish line.
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He was arrested in 2012 for a series of indecent assaults between 1967 and 1985 to which he pleaded guilty, and was subsequently sentenced to 30 months in jail.
== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
Owns a large collection of antique clocks, including one previously owned by Napoleon.
Owns a large collection of antique clocks, including one previously owned by Napoleon.
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Also wrote a sports column in the ''Radio Times''. Which is to say that the occasional fragments we could make sense of, appeared to be about sport. The rest, who knows? After his 2012 arrest for a series of indecent assaults between 1967 and 1985 (to which he subsequently pleaded guilty, and was ultimately sentenced to 30 months in jail), he was replaced by the more comprehensible [[Colin Murray]].
 
Appointed OBE in the 2012 New Years Honours list, until the honour was revoked following his conviction.
Appointed OBE in the 2012 New Years Honours list, until the honour was revoked following his conviction.

Revision as of 09:28, 21 May 2014

Contents

Shows

Britain's Top Dog (commentator)

Fat Chance (voice-over)

Fit to Win (voice-over)

Glitterball (voice-over)

God's Gift (voice-over)

Going, Going, Gone

It's a Knockout/Jeux Sans Frontières

It's Anyone's Game

Lucky Numbers (voice-over)

Ninja Warrior (voice-over)

Pot the Question

A Question of Sport (pilot show only)

Quiz Ball

Quiz Night

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (commentator)

Sick as a Parrot (team captain)

Stuart's Hall of Fame

Top Town

Waffle (voice-over)

Biography

Long-serving football reporter and host of Look North West and North West Tonight. Hall was best known for his tendency to crack up laughing at the antics of contestants on It's a Knockout and his frequently irritating habit of demanding reactions from breathless competitors as soon as they'd crossed the finish line.

He was arrested in 2012 for a series of indecent assaults between 1967 and 1985 to which he pleaded guilty, and was subsequently sentenced to 30 months in jail.

Trivia

Owns a large collection of antique clocks, including one previously owned by Napoleon.

Appointed OBE in the 2012 New Years Honours list, until the honour was revoked following his conviction.

Catchphrase

As used on North West Tonight: Until tomorrow, I wish you as always... a fond farewell.

Books / Tapes

Heaven And Hall: A Prodigal Life (collected writing) (hardback) | (tape)

Web links

Internet Movie Database entry

Wikipedia entry

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