Keith Chegwin
Keith "Cheggers" Chegwin (born 17 January 1957 in Newbury - 11 December 201… Read Full Bio ↴Keith "Cheggers" Chegwin (born 17 January 1957 in Newbury - 11 December 2017) is an English television presenter and former child actor and singer.
Biography
His early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970). Chegwin's most prestigious acting role was that of Fleance in Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth. He then had smaller parts in The Liver Birds, The Adventures of Black Beauty, My Old Man (with Clive Dunn from Dad's Army), and ITV's The Wackers and The Tomorrow People in 1975. His last major acting role was Robin in the 1975 film Robin Hood Junior, although he had two small roles with Tom Courtenay in the Chester Mystery Cycle (1976) and 23 years later in the 1999 film set in the 1970s Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?.
In the 1970s he had a brief career as a singer releasing singles on the Pye Records label. He also worked as a disc jockey for 194 Radio City[1]
In the mid 1970s he moved away from acting and became a household name presenting programmes such as Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Cheggers Plays Pop and Saturday Superstore. As Brown Sauce, he and Swap Shop co-presenters Maggie Philbin and Noel Edmonds released the pop single I wanna be a winner, which reached number 15 in December 1981. He married Philbin in 1982, and the couple had a daughter Rose (born 1988). The couple divorced in 1989.[citation needed]
Chegwin's career waned in the 1980s and 1990s, alongside tabloid allegations of alcoholism.[citation needed] Chegwin's career briefly regained speed in the mid-1990s when he presented a segment on The Big Breakfast, a live breakfast programme, before going on to present a revived version of the 1970s gameshow It's a Knockout! in 1999.
The following year, Chegwin caused controversy by presenting a one-off edition of Naked Jungle, a gameshow in which all the contestants (and Chegwin himself) appeared entirely naked. According to the Daily Mail, the show "plumbed new depths [of indecency on television]".
More recently, Chegwin has presented an outdoor segment on GMTV similar to his earlier role on The Big Breakfast'; and he appeared in a 2006 episode of the sitcom Extras.
Chegwin is the brother of radio disc jockey Janice Long.
Credit: wikipedia
Biography
His early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970). Chegwin's most prestigious acting role was that of Fleance in Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth. He then had smaller parts in The Liver Birds, The Adventures of Black Beauty, My Old Man (with Clive Dunn from Dad's Army), and ITV's The Wackers and The Tomorrow People in 1975. His last major acting role was Robin in the 1975 film Robin Hood Junior, although he had two small roles with Tom Courtenay in the Chester Mystery Cycle (1976) and 23 years later in the 1999 film set in the 1970s Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?.
In the 1970s he had a brief career as a singer releasing singles on the Pye Records label. He also worked as a disc jockey for 194 Radio City[1]
In the mid 1970s he moved away from acting and became a household name presenting programmes such as Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Cheggers Plays Pop and Saturday Superstore. As Brown Sauce, he and Swap Shop co-presenters Maggie Philbin and Noel Edmonds released the pop single I wanna be a winner, which reached number 15 in December 1981. He married Philbin in 1982, and the couple had a daughter Rose (born 1988). The couple divorced in 1989.[citation needed]
Chegwin's career waned in the 1980s and 1990s, alongside tabloid allegations of alcoholism.[citation needed] Chegwin's career briefly regained speed in the mid-1990s when he presented a segment on The Big Breakfast, a live breakfast programme, before going on to present a revived version of the 1970s gameshow It's a Knockout! in 1999.
The following year, Chegwin caused controversy by presenting a one-off edition of Naked Jungle, a gameshow in which all the contestants (and Chegwin himself) appeared entirely naked. According to the Daily Mail, the show "plumbed new depths [of indecency on television]".
More recently, Chegwin has presented an outdoor segment on GMTV similar to his earlier role on The Big Breakfast'; and he appeared in a 2006 episode of the sitcom Extras.
Chegwin is the brother of radio disc jockey Janice Long.
Credit: wikipedia
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