Cheggers Goes Flop

[Guy Profumo]

Dead at 60

[Gangster Octopus]

The Beeb call him a veteran. At 60...

[ian.64]

RIP, however I can't really say I felt any kind of attachment to him, mainly because he could be very annoying in his forced cheeky-chappie perkiness. Condolences to his loved ones, nonetheless.

[elguapo4]

All those Saturday mornings getting pissed on during outside broadcasts for swap shop while Edmunds sat in a warm studio have finally caught up with him, that and the years of alcoholism of course, between him and Mike Smith it seems swap shop wasn't conducive to a long life R.I.P

[Stumpy Pepys]

… between him and Mike Smith it seems swap shop wasn't conducive to a long life R.I.P

Nah, Smith was never on Swap Shop—you're thinking of the Late Late Breakfast Show.

Your classic Swap Shop was built on the Edmonds-Craven-Chegwin-Philbin axis.

[treibeis]

Nah, Smith was never on Swap Shop—you're thinking of the Late Late Breakfast Show.

Your classic Swap Shop was built on the Edmonds-Craven-Chegwin-Philbin axis.

You forgot Posh Paws.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Cheggers Plays Dead.

[3 Colours Red]

Cheggers Pops Off.

The Beeb call him a veteran. At 60...

He was a child actor... by their standards, 60 could almost be considered a decent innings.

[Hot Orange]

Cheggers Plays Pop Your Clogs.

[Satchmo Distel]

Brown Sauce Brown Bread

[Jah Womble]

RIP. Have to say that I never felt there was much 'forced' about Keith Chegwin's persona - it was pretty much how he was from day one. (My sister met him in Canterbury at the Swap Show roadshow - or whatever it was called - and said he was genuinely friendly to all the kids.)

There was a long-forgotten stand-up - so much so, that even I can't recall his name - whose one memorable line was 'Cheggers can't be boozers!' (A little unwieldy grammatically, but a noble effort, IMO.)

[steveeeeeeeee]

An old university friend of mine has just put a lovely post involving Chegwin on Facebook. Back in the 90s, he went with another friend from university to watch filming of The Big Breakfast. At the end of the show, after everyone had left, Cheggers showed the pair of them the whole house and posed for a load of photos with the three of them larking around. He wasn't showing an impressionable young girl his dressing room, he was just being nice to a couple of lads and having a good time in the process. I doubt many celebs would do that.

So, probably just a genuinely nice guy with some self-destructive demons.

[johnr]

I visited my friend who is suffering from cancer, in hospital today. He told me Cheggers had died, and we both spent a bit of time reminiscing about Cheggers' finest TV moment, the Naked Jungle. I'll not post a link here, cos the most complete one is from a porn site, but it's a thing of rare...interest.

I also spent a couple of minutes trying to think up a pithy title to post a thread here; I'm glad that two people posted a better one than I could think of.

[Jah Womble]

Although he clearly had greater demons, it seems that Cheggers struggled to deal with ever having agreed to present Naked Jungle.

The Sun - who, despite being the utter ghouls that they are, have been known to regale us with the occasional memorable headline - reported said TV horror under the headline 'It's a Knob-out!' the following morning. Complete with (non-)requisite photographs, you'll be unsurprised to learn.

[Duncan Gardner]

RIP Cheggers. I had thought he was after my time but as per GP and GO above perhaps not

[Stumpy Pepys]

Oddly, I came across this on Discogs. The Saucers presumably being a spin-off of Brown Sauce (I had no idea)?

Cheggers looking a bit New Romantic here; eyeliner may have been applied.

[Jah Womble]

Blimey - who were they trying to channel there? The Cocteau Twins?

[Duncan Gardner]

Blimey - who were they trying to channel there? The Cocteau Twins?

Maggie looks like Nic Sturgeon during her Kajagoogoo period