Noel Edmonds

Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio One in the UK. He has presented light entertainment television programmes, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops, The Late, Late Breakfast Show and Telly Addicts. He currently presents the Channel 4 game show Deal or No Deal, and formerly the Sunday edition of Sky1's Are You Smarter than a Ten Year Old? and the topical Sky1 show, Noel's HQ.

Links to Peel
The relationship between Peel and Edmonds was no different to Tony Blackburn, where Peel epitomised the DJ as a man whose main aim of life was showbiz celebrity rather than music. Many occasions Peel would make sarcastic comments and criticisms on Edmonds, where on My Top Ten (Transcript) he saw Edmonds as being famous for being famous:


 * "... People do think DJs are millionaires because they see someone like Noel Edmonds, who has actually achieved that wonderful thing we all want to achieve, where you actually just become famous for being famous, you know what I mean. You don’t actually have to do anything except be Noel Edmonds, you know, which is just a wonderful state of affairs in a way. So you have to get the balance right, you know. And I’d sooner – I like my children, I like my wife, I like where I live."

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