Angus Deayton
Angus Deayton
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Deayton was also selected by ITV to be the host of the third series of Hell's Kitchen, which started broadcasting on 3 September 2007 at 9:00pm. However, he was sacked from the programme in 2009 after a series of arguments with chef Marco Pierre White. Claudia Winkleman was his replacement.
In 2008 he also presented Comedy Sketchbook, a nostalgic look at classic comedy sketches, on BBC1.
He presented the 2008 British Comedy Awards on 6 December 2008, after regular host Jonathan Ross chose to step down that year due to the controversy surrounding the Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row.
In 2009, Deayton starred as the mysterious, "all-knowing man" in That Deadwood Feeling, a British comedy film starring Jack Davenport, Dexter Fletcher, and David Soul.
Deayton will appear alongside Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman in Swinging with the Finkels, a 2010 film written and directed by Jonathan Newman.
At Oxford, Deayton was in a relationship with the actress Helen Atkinson-Wood (a co-star on Radio Active and KYTV). Whilst touring with the HeeBeeGeeBees in Australia in the 1980s, Deayton saved Atkinson-Wood's life when he rescued her after she was caught in a rip whilst swimming on Sydney’s Manly Beach. Deayton later lived with the 1970s singer/songwriter Stephanie de Sykes. Since the early 1990s, he has been engaged to scriptwriter Lise Mayer, and they have a son named Isaac, born in 2001.
Deayton is a Manchester United supporter, and a good friend of former player and current coach Brian McClair.[citation needed]
In May 2002 the British tabloid newspaper News of the World published allegations about Deayton's affair with a woman, who later claimed she was a prostitute, and his use of cocaine. In October there were further reports of another affair, and he was asked to step down as the quizmaster of Have I Got News For You on 29 October 2002.
The BBC said his position as a satirical commentator on the week's news had become "untenable". When Paul Merton, a personality on Have I Got News for You, was asked by celebrity interviewer Michael Parkinson whether he had stabbed Deayton in the back, he replied "No, we stabbed him in the front". Merton also claimed that Deayton had lost integrity as a presenter and that the jokes by the guests were too often in reference to the incident.
In 2008 he also presented Comedy Sketchbook, a nostalgic look at classic comedy sketches, on BBC1.
He presented the 2008 British Comedy Awards on 6 December 2008, after regular host Jonathan Ross chose to step down that year due to the controversy surrounding the Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row.
In 2009, Deayton starred as the mysterious, "all-knowing man" in That Deadwood Feeling, a British comedy film starring Jack Davenport, Dexter Fletcher, and David Soul.
Deayton will appear alongside Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman in Swinging with the Finkels, a 2010 film written and directed by Jonathan Newman.
At Oxford, Deayton was in a relationship with the actress Helen Atkinson-Wood (a co-star on Radio Active and KYTV). Whilst touring with the HeeBeeGeeBees in Australia in the 1980s, Deayton saved Atkinson-Wood's life when he rescued her after she was caught in a rip whilst swimming on Sydney’s Manly Beach. Deayton later lived with the 1970s singer/songwriter Stephanie de Sykes. Since the early 1990s, he has been engaged to scriptwriter Lise Mayer, and they have a son named Isaac, born in 2001.
Deayton is a Manchester United supporter, and a good friend of former player and current coach Brian McClair.[citation needed]
In May 2002 the British tabloid newspaper News of the World published allegations about Deayton's affair with a woman, who later claimed she was a prostitute, and his use of cocaine. In October there were further reports of another affair, and he was asked to step down as the quizmaster of Have I Got News For You on 29 October 2002.
The BBC said his position as a satirical commentator on the week's news had become "untenable". When Paul Merton, a personality on Have I Got News for You, was asked by celebrity interviewer Michael Parkinson whether he had stabbed Deayton in the back, he replied "No, we stabbed him in the front". Merton also claimed that Deayton had lost integrity as a presenter and that the jokes by the guests were too often in reference to the incident.
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