R.i.p

[ponkle]

Another one gone.
Sir Terry Wogan.
Will be much missed

[Cloverjo]

andy-hughes, I'm with you here. He seems like a decent enough man, but I agree with you about the self-deprecation. It never rang true with me. Dare I say I didn't like the Janet and John stories either? Having said that, its sad that he's died.

[Baldric]

Not even TW could make Eurovision worth watching

[Lie-in King]

I was absent yesterday, so will add belated best wishes to Sir Terry's family.

Always a gentleman on screen or radio with a lovely sense of humour & more knowledgeable about many things than he liked to let on - so I think, anyway.

RIP Sir Terry.

[grasscarp]

When I worked at the BBC I knew Terry Wogan. This was back in 1967 when he joined Radio One. Years later someone spoke to him and mentioned my name. He said yes, I know her (as if we were still friends!) He was a really genuinely nice person.

[agchristie]

// His irreverent and highly amusing take on the Eurovision was something were unlikely to see again//

Er... So nobody has heard Graham Norton's commentaries then? Or Ken Bruce?

[Pete65]

Goodbye and God bless, Terry,
you brought good cheer into many lives.

[andy-hughes]

The Mail has excelled itself this morning with a full page article on 'Why Terry Wogan moved Britain in a way that Bowie couldn't'.

It is one of the most pointless loads of nonsense I have ever read - striving desparately to make cultural links and impacts between the two that simply cannot exist.

Tomorrow - 'Why Madonna was never as popular with Conservatives as Margaret Thatcher'.

You couldn't make it up!

Well, actually, if you are a Mail journalist - you can, and they do!

[agchristie]

Quite agree Andy. The Mail can expect a few letters of complaint from Bowie fans....

The only thing that Madonna and Margaret Thatcher had in common was that they both fell in the end ;)