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# newsreader
is Richard Bacon, I believe... I'm as in the dark as you about the other guy
(, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:06, archived)
# richard bacon the coke-addled
blue peter presenter?
(, 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
(, 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)
(, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:10, archived)
# there was a disgraced blue peter presenter called richard.
see roxy's post below
(, 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
(, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:12, archived)
# really?
jebus!
(, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:14, archived)
# not Richard bacon
from Blue Peter coke and vodka outrage?
It doesn't look much like him
(, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:08, archived)
# Baker
(, 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!
(, 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
(, Fri 17 Oct 2003, 21:16, archived)