   noel ernest edmonds (born 22 december 1948) is an english broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a dj on bbc radio 1 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. ==early life and radio career== the son of a headmaster who worked in hainault, edmonds attended glade primary school and brentwood school.rachel cooke, the observer, noel edmonds talks to rachel cooke, 29 january 2006 he was offered a place at the university of surrey but turned it down in favour of a job as a newsreader on radio luxembourg, which was offered to him in 1968 after he sent tapes to offshore radio stations. in 1969, he moved to bbc radio 1 where he began by recording trailers for broadcasts and filling in for absent djs, such as kenny everett. in april 1970, edmonds began his own two-hour saturday afternoon programme, broadcasting from 1pm-3pm, before replacing kenny everett on saturday mornings from 10.00am-12.00noon in july of that year. in october 1971 he was moved to a sunday morning slot from 10.00am-12.00noon before being promoted to host the radio 1 breakfast show from june 1973 to april 1978, taking over from tony blackburn. edmonds moved back to sunday mornings from 10.00am-1.00pm in 1978 and also presented talkabout, an hour-long talk show broadcast on thursday evenings.{{cite web| work=radio rewind |title=noel edmonds at dingly dell |url=http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/noel_edmonds_page.htm| accessdate=12 september 2006 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060616191831/http://r
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