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[challenge entry] *Chuckle*

Anyone get the reference? Har!

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(braddiemax, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:02, archived)
# ahahah
isn't that Phil from the newsletter?

(Edit: no, it isn't. I've no idea what you're on about.)
(trumpet, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:05, archived)
# i dont know who either of those people are
am i alone?
(I helped save b3ta! rosey on twitter as @helenelectric, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:06, archived)
# newsreader
is Richard Bacon, I believe... I'm as in the dark as you about the other guy
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:06, archived)
# richard bacon the coke-addled
blue peter presenter?
(I helped save b3ta! rosey on twitter as @helenelectric, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:07, archived)
# no
I don't think he ever presented blue peter - I didn't think anyone called richard was a blue peter presenter... I'm called richard, so I paid attention to things like that as a child
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:08, archived)
# Richard Bacon presented blue peter
but got the tin-tack for admitting to taking cocaine at a party (shock meeja revelation)
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy page 4, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:10, archived)
# there was a disgraced blue peter presenter called richard.
see roxy's post below
(I helped save b3ta! rosey on twitter as @helenelectric, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:10, archived)
# ah well
like that bloke who played Tik-Tok in Return to Oz then became a presenter, only to be outed as a gay revue star... dead from aids now, I believe
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:12, archived)
# really?
jebus!
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy page 4, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:14, archived)
# not Richard bacon
from Blue Peter coke and vodka outrage?
It doesn't look much like him
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is taking advantage of you all, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:08, archived)
# Baker
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy page 4, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:09, archived)
# ah
there we go, thanks...

edit: no, I didn't think it was and a google shows that this is richard baker

this page has them both on - it was Jim Bacon!
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:09, archived)
# pic didn't load
but text said jim bacon was the weatherman, not the newsreader
Richard Whitmore, apparently
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy page 4, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:16, archived)
# "Berk's Stalker"
This bloke posts to a comics message board I'm on. He wrote to me Monday about being a fan of mine, and he told me the b3ta story about Berk and sent me links to the whole thing. rather scared me, to be truthful. He's cracked, I think.
(braddiemax, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:11, archived)
# The Hell With You
...Just goes to show, you really can't trust folks you encounter on the internet. Sheesh...
(i.am.jamie, Thu 23 Oct 2003, 22:26, archived)