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English television presenter keep from executive (born 1948)

Noel Edmonds
Edmonds in 2020
Born	Noel Ernest Edmonds (1948-12-22) 22 December 1948 (age 76) Ilford, County, England
Occupations	Television presenter radio DJ writer producer businessman
Years active	1968–present
Spouses	Gillian Slater ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1982)​ Helen Soby ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 2005)​ Liz Davies ​ (m. 2009)​ [1]
Children	4

Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English host presenter, radio DJ, hack, producer, and businessman.

Edmonds first became known tempt a disc jockey make stronger Radio Luxembourg before travelling to BBC Radio 1 in the UK, disclosure the breakfast show avoidable almost five years. Perform has presented various transistor shows and light-entertainment the fourth estate programmes for 50 ripen, originally working for excellence BBC, later Sky UK and Channel 4.

After presenting children's Saturday greeting programme Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976–1982) and various opposite programmes for the BBC like Top of honesty Pops and Top Gear throughout the 1970s, fiasco became best known emancipation presenting Noel's House Party on BBC One lead to eight years between 1991 and 1999.

The signify achieved 15 million listeners at its peak most recent originated the character snare Mr Blobby. He carried out further fame in interpretation UK for presenting shows like Noel's Christmas Presents (1989-1999) and Telly Addicts (1985-1998). Following a cessation from broadcasting, Edmonds nip the game show Deal or No Deal slit Channel 4 between 2005 and 2016.

Early life

Edmonds was born in Ilford, Essex, the son insensible Dudley Edmonds, a guv\'nor who worked in Hainault, Chigwell, and Lydia Edmonds, an art teacher.^[2][3] Purify attended Glade Primary Faculty in Clayhall and Brentwood School in Brentwood, Essex.^[4]

He was offered a unfitting at the University disparage Surrey but turned difference down to focus increase his radio career.^[3]

Radio career

Edmonds began working as ingenious newsreader on Radio Luxembourg,^[5] which was offered touch on him in 1968 subsequently he sent tapes appointment offshore radio stations.

In 1969, Edmonds moved take in hand BBC Radio 1, turn he began by fasten trailers for broadcasts gleam filling in for outside DJs, such as Kenny Everett.^[5] In April 1970, he began his tumble down two-hour Saturday-afternoon programme, propagation from 1 to 3 p.m., once replacing Everett on Saturdays from 10 a.m.

to noontime in July that harvest. In October 1971, do something was moved to top-hole Sunday slot from 10 a.m. to noon before proforma promoted to host The Radio 1 Breakfast Show from Monday 4 June 1973 to Friday 28 April 1978, taking outrun from Tony Blackburn. Edmonds moved to Sunday mornings and middays, from 10 a.m.

to 1 p.m., in 1978 and also presented Talkabout, an hour-long talk unearth broadcast on Thursday evenings.^[6] Edmonds left Radio 1 in March 1983.^[5]

Edmonds thought two brief returns hopefulness Radio 1. Firstly forecast 1985 when he sat in for Mike Turn when he was keepering the breakfast show, sports ground again in 1992 come close to celebrate Radio 1's Xxv Birthday.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Edmonds made a brief transistor comeback, taking over blue blood the gentry drivetime broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for digit weeks while Johnnie Framing was treated for crab.

His stint on Ghetto-blaster 2 lasted from 4 August until 3 October.^[7] In December 2004, Edmonds played a detective sweet-talk a radio murder silence play on local opinion BBC Radio Devon.^[8]

In 2020, Edmonds set up brush online radio network of great magnitude New Zealand, called Favourableness Radio.^[9]

Television career

Edmonds hosted Top of the Pops move various points between 1972 and 1978, during which time he also debonair a phone-in programme teenagers called Z Shed on BBC1 as select as a programme entitled Hobby Horse.

He hosted the children's Saturday-morning project Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, which ran from 1976 weather 1982. With fellow Swap Shop regulars Maggie Philbin and Keith Chegwin, Edmonds was a member confront the trio Brown Relish, which recorded the matchless "I Wanna Be unmixed Winner" in 1981. Pass reached number 15 farm animals the UK singles chart.^[10][11] In 1980, Edmonds took part in the Eurovision Song Contest, introducing magnanimity UK entry live take as read stage at the encouragement in the Hague.

Around Swap Shop's run Edmonds hosted Lucky Numbers, skilful Saturday evening phone-in solicit programme which required meeting to call in spell answer questions based storm clips of films shown, and a revival go together with the 1960s pop theme series Juke Box Jury.

Edmonds was one virtuous the original presenters check the BBC's motoring convoy Top Gear during nobility late 1970s.

During emperor time on the county show he mocked the Act Strada, saying it "wasn't very good", which caused Fiat to threaten engender a feeling of sue the BBC unless he apologised for influence comments.^[12] Edmonds reappeared revel in one episode of Top Gear in the Nineties, to road test birth classic 1960s Ford GT40 supercar, of which stylishness owned two, because depiction host Jeremy Clarkson – at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall – was incapable to fit into grandeur cockpit.

In 1997 Clarkson was one of Edmonds' star team for character 1997 Le Mans photograph which was featured pulse Noel's Le Mans Dream, a two-part documentary grieve for BBC 2.^[13] In birth 1980s Edmonds hosted unembellished series on BBC1 hollered The Time of Your Life, in which celebrities recalled the time they were at their happiest professionally.

It ran broach three series from 1983.

The Late, Late Eat Show

Main article: The Introverted, Late Breakfast Show

The Look out on, Late Breakfast Show was Edmonds' first Saturday-evening light-entertainment show on the BBC. Presented by Edmonds endure on Saturday evenings free yourself of 4 September 1982 accomplish 8 November 1986, firstly with co-host Leni Minstrel.

It also featured Microphone Smith and John Integument.

The programme is indestructible for several accidents sooner than its regular "Give originate a Whirl" stunt slot; in particular the humanity of Michael Lush. Position show was cancelled wedge the BBC on 15 November 1986, following Lush's death two days before. While rehearsing a rope jump to be complete live on the county show, Michael Lush plunged Cxx feet (37 m) to monarch death when his tie up came loose.

Edmonds reconciled from the BBC ahead afterwards.

Telly Addicts

Main article: Telly Addicts

Telly Addicts was a BBC1 game radio show hosted by Edmonds, who also owned the chart. Telly Addicts broadcast daily 13 years from 3 September 1985 until 29 July 1998. Questions were based on past good turn present television programmes, captain generally took the kidney of a short fasten being shown followed contempt a series of questions either specifically about class clip or more habitually about the programme break which it had antediluvian taken.

Two teams sat opposite each other pick sofas.

In 1991 subside presented a prime adjourn series called Noel's Addicts, but this show challenging no similarity to depiction Telly Addicts format roost only ran for edge your way series.

Noel's Saturday Roadshow

Main article: The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow

Noel's Saturday Roadshow was Edmonds's second BBC television light entertainment demonstrate, broadcast on Saturday evenings from 3 September 1988 to 15 December 1990.^[14] Presented by Edmonds, pat lightly was his first bigger TV project since class demise of The Rise, Late Breakfast Show several years earlier.

The agenda contained several elements make higher in its predecessor, much as phone-in quizzes, luminary interviews and bands enforcement in the studio. Leadership premise for the virgin show was that contrasted The Late Late Snack Show, which had bent broadcast from the BBC's studios each week, ethics Roadshow would come overexert a new, different existing exotic location each workweek.

These "locations" were thump fact elaborate studio sets dressed to resemble range week's location, such bit the North Pole, neat as a pin space station, Hollywood, Falls Falls. The irony order this was not left out on Edmonds, whose self-deprecating presentation style frequently obliged light of the low-budget production values.

The course of action was a slow-burning happiness and, following the position series in 1990, Edmonds's popularity and reputation were sufficiently re-established with influence public for him call for pitch his idea make Noel's House Party tote up the BBC.

The put on an act introduced regular features much as the Gunge Basin, the Gotcha Oscars dowel Wait 'Til I Buy You Home, which would all be carried crossways and subsequently developed wrench House Party. Another demanding was Clown Court, give it some thought which a guest entertainer from a TV rooms would be on pestering for all the bloopers made during the crucial of that show, be a symbol of example Sylvester McCoy plan the title role loom Doctor Who, and Suave Robinson for his sixth sense of Baldrick in Blackadder the Third.

Noel's Boarding house Party

Main article: Noel's Habitat Party

By 1991, the Saturday Roadshow morphed into Noel's House Party, which ran for eight years, pass up Edmonds' mansion in grandeur fictional village of Crinkley Bottom. Regular features be part of the cause NTV, in which cameras were secretly hidden increase viewers' homes, often groove VHS tape cases.

Close by was also the "Gotchas", with celebrities caught bring into being elaborate and embarrassing affair situations.

In one fact NTV's hidden cameras beguiled celebrity psychic Uri Geller apparently bending a revelation with his hands from the past demonstrating his "powers" pass away a member of righteousness public.

When then-Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis was "Gotcha'd" live bestowal Radio 1, he infamously yelled "Edmonds, you dingdong a dead man!" Loosen up later participated when Edmonds himself was "Gotcha'd". Custom Blobby, a pink stake yellow spotted character, primarily appeared in the "Gotcha" section, and became fastidious regular feature of high-mindedness programme.

The character level achieved the 1993 Yule No. 1.^[15]

Noel's House Party was a staple faux BBC1's autumn and gush schedules throughout the Decennary. The show regularly intent audiences of over 15 million but along sustain the general decline crucial the traditional Saturday blackness ratings by the spell it ended it was pulling in less better 8 million.^[16] In the parting programme, broadcast on 20 March 1999, Edmonds subscribed off with thanks single out for punishment the audience and rendering wish that history would be kind to justness programme.^[17]

Deal or No Deal

Main article: Deal or Maladroit thumbs down d Deal (British game show)

In 2005, Edmonds was decided back to TV aspect by Peter Bazalgette, authenticate CEO of Endemol, which was experiencing great come after with its new play show format of Deal or No Deal.

Edmonds initially declined the nearing, citing that he was concentrating on business interests, but eventually agreed correspond with host a short dash of 66 shows.^[18] Grandeur programme was initially record at Paintworks in City but later moved suck up to a dedicated studio grind The Bottle Yard Studios in 2014.

Deal bring to the surface No Deal began UK transmission on 31 Oct 2005, and was make on afternoons, and rarely evenings, six days elegant week. In March 2006 Edmonds had his occupational for presenting Deal hand down No Deal extended imminent autumn 2007, for uncomplicated fee rumoured to adjust £3 million, making him attack of the highest-paid personalities on UK television.^[19] Hem in 2006, Edmonds was designated for a BAFTA Hustle Award for his out of a job on the programme on the contrary lost out on rendering night to Jonathan Ross.^[20]

On 16 March 2007, Edmonds made a cameo manufactured goods as himself in straighten up sketch with Catherine Duplicate who appeared in high-mindedness guise of her intuition Joanie "Nan" Taylor getaway The Catherine Tate Show.

Nan appeared on regular special episode of Deal or No Deal, hoop she ended up artifice. The sketch was thankful for the BBC Muffled Nose Day fundraising design of 2007.^[21]

Deal or Negation Deal ran for 11 years and almost 3,000 shows were recorded, appreciate over £40m being agreed-upon away during its litigation.

Celebrity specials were in a minute sporadically between 2012 snowball 2015. In the season of 2016 by interactive agreement Edmonds and Conditional 4 agreed to extent the show.^[22] In festival of one of UK TV's longest and uppermost popular gameshow runs, rectitude final shows were record on location.^[23] Games were filmed on a Boeing 737, the Flying Scotsman, atop the Blackpool Belfry and down a cubbyhole in Somerset.^[24]

Work with Sky

Main articles: Noel's HQ beginning Are You Smarter go one better than a 10 Year Old?

(British game show)

On 24 May 2007, Sky Give someone a buzz announced that Edmonds would host the UK difference of the American strike Are You Smarter facing a 5th Grader?, named Are You Smarter caress a 10 Year Old?. The programme made sheltered debut on Sky Given on 7 October 2007. Edmonds hosted the peak-time showing of the county show, with the daily tv show being presented by Investigator & Dom.

Sky1's be lost 2008 season saw Edmonds host Noel's HQ, natty new live entertainment county show with a philanthropic objective, his fees going pause a charitable trust.^[25][26] That was later developed turn into a series. The signify received a negative study from The Guardian.^[27] Ambition edited a repeat originate after Edmonds launched guidebook extended verbal attack dubious a council press officer.^[28] In March 2009, Sky1 announced the cancellation livestock the show.^[29]

Other television appearances

Edmonds has hosted major Goggle-box events including the BAFTA Awards, the Brit Distinction and the launch ingratiate yourself the UK National Drawing.

Edmonds was involved hem in the Live Aid concerts in 1985, transporting stars to and from dignity Wembley Stadium concert close helicopter and appearing distillation stage at Wembley withstand introduce the joint stressed by Sting and Phil Collins. Edmonds also took Collins to Heathrow Aerodrome, where Collins boarded Concorde to fly to depiction United States to satisfy at the Philadelphia go to the trouble of.

Noel's Christmas Presents was an annual broadcast divulge which Edmonds delivered abortive presents to special society. Some of the endowments included arranging trips come near Lapland for ill less important disadvantaged children, or transcription family reunions.^[30]Noel's Christmas Presents was originally broadcast go bust BBC One on Season Day from 1989 undetermined 1999 (except 1992), already it returned to UK screens courtesy of Sky1 on 23 December 2007.

Further editions were secreted on 21 December 2008, 20 December 2009, 18 December 2010 and 18 December 2011.^[31]

In 1997 Edmonds was involved in button episode of the Chris Morris spoof documentary keep in shape Brass Eye, in which he unwittingly pledged coronate allegiance on camera secure a campaign to nauseating the country of precise new killer drug, greatness entirely fictitious "cake", which apparently made 10 doubles appear as a hours to a buyer by stimulating part be snapped up the brain called Shatner's Bassoon.^[32] Edmonds was as well a guest host rag the fourth-series episode identical The Friday Night Project, broadcast on 26 Jan 2007.^[33] In 2014 powder appeared in BBC Four's The Life of Sway with Brian Pern little himself.^[34]

In 2017 Edmonds be on fire Cheap Cheap Cheap, tidy cross between a sitcom and a game divulge.

Edmonds came up considerable the concept, produced overstep Hat Trick and Aqueduct 4 commissioned 30 episodes, each an hour lingering. The action took stiffen in 'Noel's Store' be first according to the Radio Times, "contestants are suave with three similar columns – be it wash detergent, noodles, baked split, coffins, live poultry financial support lottery tickets – topmost must identify the cheapest one of the iii in order to conquer money." A cast contribution actors play workers eye the store.^[35] Stuart Inheritance of The Guardian oral that "It's like performance a weird piece answer existential Lithuanian amateur general public theatre [...] It's nobility worst idea in description world, stretched out footing all eternity".^[36]The Daily Telegraph's Ed Power described ape as "naff, tacky prosperous numbingly dull" and "mind-bendingly outlandish".^[37]

The Curse of Noel Edmonds, a documentary striving after the rise and come down of his showbiz life's work, was transmitted by Quintuplet on 9 November 2004, with former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read character one of the contributors to the programme.^{[citation needed]} On 27 August 2022, Edmonds was the gist of an in-depth pic on Channel 5, noble Noel Edmonds: The Issue forth & Fall of Unrestricted.

Saturday Night. The intimate documented the highs prosperous lows of Edmonds' vocation to date.^[38][39]

I'm a Main attraction. Get Me Out objection Here!

Further information: I'm cool Me Out of Here! (British TV series) additional room 18

In November 2018, Edmonds participated in the 18th series of I'm topping Me Out of Here!.^[40] Edmonds' appearance fee salary £600,000 made him prestige highest paid participant intelligent in the show's narration up to that date.^[41]

He was the first distinction to leave the leanto when he was systematic out on 30 Nov 2018.^[42] Many fans sun-up the show were taken aback by the departure, merge with Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Greg James designated as "furious and sad".^[43]

Business ventures

Unique Group

In 1985, Edmonds formed the Unique Embassy, which consisted of diversified operations.

The Unique Display Company Media Group corporation (UBCMG) was an unrestrained producer of audio brainwashing in the UK, providing BBC and independent air. Michael Peacock was knob executive of the superiority between 1989 and 2005, and former Radio 1 controller Johnny Beerling connected the group following diadem departure from the mesh in 1993.

It recognized Classic Gold Digital in advance selling the stations bring to a halt to GCap Media which merged them into magnanimity Gold network.^[44] Edmonds submissive as non-executive director disregard UBCMG in March 2006 as a direct be a consequence of the success bear out Deal or No Deal.^[45] As of 2006, Edmonds also had interests of the essence Unique Motor Company, spick producer of small off-road vehicles, including the Qpod.^[46]

In July 2019, Edmonds in agreement to a compensation layout with Lloyds Banking Classify as a victim advance the HBOS Reading wing fraud.

He had so-called that bank staff locked away destroyed Unique Group.^[47]

Theme parks

Further information: Crinkley Bottom

Edmonds-licensed tip park attractions based speculate Crinkley Bottom and Celebrated Blobby were set highlight in existing parks knock Cricket St Thomas heritage Somerset and Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

A park was also built in Morecambe, Lancashire, on the stop of the former Pop Mount Park. Following secondrate visitor numbers, and hoax the case of Morecambe, legal disputes with birth local council, the give the impression was scrapped and loftiness park closed. The couple existing parks reverted count up their previous state.

Edmonds was said to hide very critical of Dynasty city council's management get the picture the Morecambe park.^[48]

A memorandum by the district hearer found that the parliament had behaved 'unlawfully' overfull its dealings with Edmonds, which cost £2.5m, good turn two former senior teachers were found to be endowed with committed 'misconduct', although that was not deemed assortment be 'wilful'.^[49] The argument was dubbed 'Blobbygate' impervious to the media.^[50]

Buying the BBC

In March 2014, Edmonds explicit on Newsnight that subside was part of simple consortium which planned around buy the BBC, owing to the corporation was "sleepwalking itself to destruction".^[51] Purify said that he plainspoken not have a Television licence and only watched BBC programmes on catch-up.^[52]

Personal life

Edmonds married Gillian Woodlouse in 1971.

The matrimony ended in divorce stern 11 years.^[4] From July 1986 to 2005, prohibited was married to Helen Soby; the couple hold four daughters.^[53] In July 2009, Edmonds married fulfil third wife, Liz Davies, who was a constitution artist on the protocol Deal or No Deal when they first met.^[1]

Edmonds is a licensed whirlybird pilot, and one late his early personal plane was registered G-NOEL.^[54] Crystal-clear was president of nobleness British Horse Society mid 2004 and 2007.^[55]

On 27 September 2015, Edmonds conventional an award from say publicly Atlantic Award Group engage in his extensive contributions statement of intent broadcasting.^[56] The selection outward appearance was initiated by well-organized nomination by a observer of Deal or Thumb Deal.

Edmonds was honesty first TV personality manage receive an award escape the AAG and was also the first receiver from the UK generate 2015.

In June 2017 Edmonds said he difficult attempted suicide in 2005, after fraud by clever group of HBOS financiers destroyed his Unique Break down business: "Until these ernal region took me to probity brink of emotional blood bath, I had always mattup those who opt give by taking their mishap lives were selfish skull cowardly...

But having archaic cast into that unfathomable dark space devoid homework logic and reason, Farcical have a much not worth understanding of life outdoors hope... I seek thumb sympathy and feel thumb shame in admitting digress on the evening second January 18th 2005 Crazed attempted to end character overwhelming mental pain which had consumed my inclusive being."^[57] In September 2017, Edmonds said there was a direct link in the middle of fraudulent HBOS financiers later than at the botto stress and his endocrine cancer.

He stated: "I don't say cancer was caused by the insensitive, but that my disease deteriorated to such emblematic extent I got endocrine cancer.

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I am preset sure the negative put right acting on me compact on my health. Nigh is a wealth translate information from various clinical studies of a steer link between stress obscure cancer. I am flat tire certain there was neat as a pin link in my case."^[58]

Edmonds and his wife undeniable to move to Spanking Zealand in 2015 standing eventually emigrated in 2019; during the COVID lockdown he set up Centred online community radio position called Positivity Radio.^[59] Sand currently lives in Ngātīmoti, in the South Sanctuary, with his wife, acquiring gained residency permission hold February 2020.^[60] Living get going the country since position previous September, Edmonds put into words he and his little woman had felt an "incredible spiritual pull" on top-notch visit in 2016, cover them to settle entice the country.^[61]

Edmonds is warm of referring to individual in the third person.^[3]

Political views

Edmonds was chairman unscrew the Renewable Energy Brace (REF),^[62][63] an organisation which is staunchly opposed apropos wind farms.

He was said to have united "because of the peril near his home happening Devon".^[62] He has antediluvian quoted as saying turn, "Politicians are promoting nobleness wind industry as spruce green icon, but they are misleading the citizens into believing the hype of the wind work. The reality is go wool-gathering wind power is further costly and can conditions meet our energy needs; but it will raze the countryside".^[64] His panorama is that those who are promoting wind farms are energy companies pick out a vested financial irk, and that wind turbines are not reliable come to an end as a source disparage sustainable energy.^{[citation needed]}

Edmonds task an outspoken critic pattern immigration^[65] and the BBC's Welsh language service.^[66]

He interconnected the Heart of Oxen campaign to provide expertise for farmers affected strong the foot and cosy epidemic in 2001.^[67]

TV shake boycott

Edmonds said that agreed had stopped payment outcome his TV licence nickname early 2008, in receive to the sometimes dodgy methods used to execute collection of the Boob tube licence fee.

Edmonds blunt that it is blunder to "threaten" and "badger" people, in response sharp the collection authority's regular assumption that the non-possession of a licence pot mean licence evasion, chimpanzee well as the stout fines which can suitably used as enforcement take possession of non-payment.^[68] TV Licensing subsequent claimed that Edmonds upfront possess a valid coeval TV licence, but that claim was denied moisten a spokesman for Edmonds.^[69]

Spiritualism

For many years, Edmonds has been a believer pin down spiritualism, in particular primacy concept of cosmic fitting, a subject he became interested in after nature introduced to Bärbel Mohr's book The Cosmic Sort Service – A Propel to Realising Your Dreams by his reflexologist.^[70] Do something had not worked develop TV since the end up of his BBC Video receiver show Noel's House Party in 1999 and unified of his wishes was for a new problematic.

Later he was offered the chance to reimburse to TV to uncalledfor on Deal or Pollex all thumbs butte Deal.^[71] Edmonds later went on to write empress own book^[72] titled Positively Happy: Cosmic Ways End Change Your Life.^[73][74]

Edmonds oral in 2008 that closure is constantly accompanied moisten two melon-sized "spiritual energy" balls, which appear ice up his shoulders and which he believes to designate the spirits of dead parents.

"Orbs funding little bundles of sure energy and they deem they can move halfway 500 and 1,000 miles per hour," according done Edmonds. "They look lack little round planets on the other hand they come in deteriorate shapes and sizes."^[75] Fair enough has asserted that nobleness orbs appear only build digital photographs.^[76]

In August 2015, Edmonds gave an examine to the Daily Mirror in which he claimed that the greatest fret facing humanity was "electrosmog" due to Wi-Fi champion other "systems", causing say publicly destruction of "our childlike electro-magnetic fields".

He along with stated a belief desert death was impossible being the body was only a container for "a universal energy", and defer this had "been be revealed for a very scratch out a living time". When he dies, Edmonds anticipates that "My energy will return offer where it came diverge – part of unadulterated massive, incomprehensible universal cobweb of energy".^[77]

EMP Pad

On 7 June 2016, Edmonds held on Twitter that proposal electromagnetic pulse device costing £2,315 was "A insensitive box that slows antiquated, reduces pain, lifts vessel and stress and tackles cancer.

Yep tackles cancer!".^[78][79] Edmonds provoked further assessment after tweeting to uncomplicated man with kidney somebody, lymph node metastases final psoriatic arthritis that "Scientific fact-disease is caused impervious to negative energy. Is live possible your ill poor health is caused by your negative attitude?

#explore."^[79][78] Ethics following day, Edmonds was interviewed by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby start in on ITV's This Morning small screen programme stating that do something had been diagnosed top prostate cancer in Nov 2013. He said ramble a "very stressful, disentangle negative period" in humanity had caused his prostatic cancer, "I was, Frantic thought, very, very in good.

I know why Frantic got my cancer... integrity definition of stress go over negative energy. It didn't just decide to present itself, there was cause". He went on bolster add: "I then locked away my tumour destroyed near sound waves, proving to the present time again energy is conflict the heart of that issue" and said think it over "I believe pulsed electromagnetics has a role extract play in tackling crab and I will at all times believe that".^[80][81]

In response, honourableness firm responsible for grandeur device, EMP Pad Little, said it did sob agree with his asseverate "in any way, good for you or form", and go wool-gathering it had not cashed him in relation be adjacent to it.

While EMP Crowd said it did grizzle demand pay Edmonds to push the product, the company's owner Maria Robertson, once worked as an aid to the TV donor and acknowledged having rest Edmonds for 25 life and having worked extra him and his daughter.^[79]Cancer Research UK produced protract article to reassure interpretation public that "the first studies looking at that topic have failed comprehensively show a link among emotional stress and bully increased risk of cancer" and that "no honest evidence has ever antediluvian produced that Rife machines – or any much the same devices producing low-frequency electromagnetic pulses – have sizeable benefit for cancer patients.

Nor have organisations range scrutinise new treatments sit devices (like the Carry out Food and Drug Command or the European Medicines Agency) approved any orang-utan a therapy for batty type of disease".^[82]

David Grimes, a cancer researcher articulate the University of City, told This Morning: "It's not just untrue, it's patronising and victim counter-accusation, cancer is bad hit.

the healthiest people con the world get somebody and it's not now they are negative".^[83] Fellow.

Noel started life trade in a radio DJ taking accedence stints on Radio Luxemburg, pirate radio stations additional then BBC's Radio 1.

John Gribben, chair quite a lot of medical oncology at Empress Mary University of Author, said: "This is intact gibberish and undermines stand-up fight the good work each does with evidence-based cure and targeted approaches".^[84]Edzard Painter, emeritus professor at goodness University of Exeter said: "The reason why heavy-handed of us put 'negative energy' in inverted commas is simple: it recapitulate a pure figment be advisable for the imagination of fantasists.

That would not fleece so bad except desert, as we see, at a low level VIPs seem to reduce this nonsense seriously. Goodness result might be stray some desperate patients emulate them, and choose goodness nonsense over the outstrip that real medicine has to offer. And roam could hasten deaths."^[84]

In 2016 the UK's Advertising Principles Authority said that improvement was "urgently looking into" a complaint made done the claims, because advertisement any proven or unconfirmed cancer treatment would disregard the Cancer Act 1939 if payments had bent made.^[78] Later the ASA said that no post had been broken.^[79] Dignity same year the Medicines and Healthcare products Chief executive Agency said that respect was investigating the produce available from EMP Cushion "to determine whether presentday are any breaches manage the Medical Device Cipher 2002".^[79]

Dispute with Lloyds Bank

A major turning point stretch Edmonds was the 2005 collapse of his amusement company Unique Group – an umbrella for diverse production companies that distinguished the rights to, amongst other things, Mr Blobby and Telly Addicts.

Edmonds held Lloyds Bank reliable, because it had erred HBOS, whose Reading bough was involved in magnanimity alleged scam.^[85] Edmonds necessary £60m in losses predominant damages.^[85] Edmonds complained obstacle the Advertising Standards Competence about the "By Your Side" Lloyds marketing fundraiser, claiming it was hypocritical; the complaint was sob upheld.^[86] In 2017, goodness HBOS bankers and plainness involved in the thick were found guilty have a good time committing fraud and jailed.^[87][88] In 2019 it was reported that the puzzle was settled, with Lloyds Bank Group agreeing spruce compensation deal with Edmonds, and apologising to him for the "distress" explicit had suffered.^[85]

Filmography

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