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    presenter. He was a long-time TV chat-show host, beginning with The Des O'Connor Show in 1963, which ran for ten years. He also presented several UK television...
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  • Des O'Connor Tonight is a British light entertainment variety show hosted by Des O'Connor. It was originally broadcast on BBC2 from 1977 until 1982, when...
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  • Des O'Connor (1932–2020) was an English entertainer, singer and television presenter. Des O'Connor may also refer to: Des O'Connor (rugby league), Australian...
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  • The Des O'Connor Show is a British variety and chat show hosted by Des O'Connor which was broadcast on ITV from 1963 until 1973. Associated Television...
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  • entertainment. The first show aired on 8 April 2012 and was presented by Des O'Connor. The second aired on 16 October 2013, which was presented by Paul O'Grady...
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  • Desmond O'Connor (also known as Des O'Connor) is an English ukulele-playing cabaret host and musical comedy performer. He is a composer and lyricist and...
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  • footballer Des McLean, Scottish stand-up comedian, actor and presenter Desmond Des O'Connor (1932–2020), British entertainer Des O'Connor, Australian...
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  • death in June 2005. It was then presented by Des Lynam from October 2005 until December 2006, Des O'Connor from January 2007 until December 2008, Jeff...
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  • British television, notably on ITV's The Comedians and many guest spots on Des O'Connor Tonight. Casson was born 29 April 1943 in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire...
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  • television shows, including The Clive James Show, The Brian Conley Show, Des O'Connor Tonight, and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He has written for the animated...
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  • Des O'Connor is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. O'Connor came from St. George's rugby union ranks to play...
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    Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005, and subsequently with Des Lynam and Des O'Connor, before leaving in 2008. While appearing on Countdown, Vorderman...
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  • Royal Variety Performance along with Bruce Forsyth, Ronnie Corbett and Des O'Connor.[citation needed] Tarbuck made a Comedy Playhouse pilot for the BBC in...
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  • radio presenter. She is best known for co-hosting Today with Des and Mel with Des O'Connor and Let's Do Lunch with Gino D'Acampo. She also co-hosted Going...
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    Nice – If You Can Get It/Step Right Up Columbia DB 8935 Des O'Connor – Another Side Des O'Connor – LP – NSPL 18559. Flair – Stop Look & Listen – LP – MLP...
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    was in Worthing, West Sussex about 250 miles away. He was replaced by Des O'Connor. Lynam did, however, return for Countdown's 5000th episode, broadcast...
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  • Cannon and Ball, Jimmy Tarbuck, Little and Large, Mike Smith, Des O'Connor, Tom O'Connor, Jeffrey Holland, Susie Blake, Jim Bowen, Les Dawson, Larry Grayson...
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    O'Grady appeared on The One and Only Des O'Connor, a one-off special for ITV which looked back on the life of Des O'Connor. In October 2012, the third volume...
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  • Close Harry Connick Jr. United States Harry Des O'Connor United Kingdom The Des O'Connor Show, Des O'Connor Tonight Anderson Cooper United States Anderson...
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  • Today with Des and Mel is a British chat show that aired on ITV from 30 September 2002 to 12 May 2006 and was hosted by Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes...
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  • Variety 13 May 1972 – ITV: The Rolf Harris Show 31 May 1972 – ITV: Des (The Des O'Connor Show) 26 August 1972 – ITV: Saturday Variety 7 September 1972 –...
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  • entertainer Des O'Connor in various disparaging ways. A rhyming example was: "If you want me to be a goner, get me an LP by Des O'Connor". Another typical...
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  • is Back in UAE with Etisalat #Dubai - Dubai City Guide". "Mr Bean Has Des O'Connor In Stitches" – via YouTube. "Mr Bean On Big Breakfast 1993". Archived...
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  • restaurant; it was Des O'Connor, who had a contract with ATV for 13 shows, and he wanted Douglas to star with him. He readily agreed, and O'Connor pretty much...
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    time as the announcement of a new main host, Jeff Stelling, replacing Des O'Connor; the duo of Stelling and Riley was in place for the new series beginning...
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  • Three of a Kind. Kay appeared and acted in Lennie and Jerry (1979), Des O'Connor Tonight (1981), Max Bygraves Side by Side (1982), The Bob Monkhouse Show...
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  • to 23 December 1999. The show featured female assistants to accompany Des O'Connor. They were Jodie Wilson in the first two of the revived series, then...
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    League Cup finals in 1991 and 1994. An incident during a live edition of Des O'Connor Tonight on Thames in the mid-1980s gained publicity. A joke – about the...
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  • Russell Grant took over soon afterwards as The Wizard, for 14 weeks. Des O'Connor portrayed The Wizard from May 2012 until the production closed. The musical...
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    Company Night of 100 Stars III The 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Des O'Connor Tonight A Conversation with Dinah Live from the London Palladium: Happy...
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