Whatever Happened to Simon Dee?
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
Published: October 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845130503
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Television; England; c 1960 to c 1970; Biography/Autobiography
Description: "In the mid-sixties, Simon Dee had it all. He was Britain's first celebrity chat-show host, with his own prime-time show on the BBC, Dee Time, regularly watched by 15 million people. He interviewed everyone from Sophia Lauren to Sammy Davis, Jr, and in the programme's memorable closing credits he swept away from Television Centre in an open-top E-Type Jaguar as a pert mini-skirted companion jumped aboard. He'd already been one of the pioneering disc jockeys on the pirate station Radio Caroline; he had a part in The Italian Job." "Then a move to ITV was followed by sacking, unemployment, a brief spell in jail ... and suddenly one of the coolest figureheads of the Swinging Sixties was a name no more. But without him, there'd have been no Jonathan Ross, no Frank Skinner, and no Austin Powers." "In 2005 Simon Dee turned 70. This is the story of British television's Icarus; of the vicissitudes of fame and how you subsequently make a life without it; of a man who was once one of the most famous people in Britain, and made a seminal contribution to broadcasting history." -- BOOK JACKET.