ENTERTAINERS

Dale Winton

Dale Winton began his career as a DJ on the London club circuit. This led to him working for Adrian Love on the United Biscuits Industrial Radio Station. He prepared news, made commercials and interviewed for a programme that was broadcast in factories.

Eventually he was given his own morning show. From here Dale moved to Radio Trent, again hosting the morning show, then to Radio Danube, before an entertainment show for Radio Chiltern.

In 1986, Dale joined BBC Bristol to present ‘Pet Watch’ for BBC 1, and then in 1987, he joined CTVC as a producer/presenter to train businessmen and women in radio and TV techniques. Early in 1988, he joined Beacon Radio in Wolverhampton as a producer and presenter on his own mid-morning series, which led to the ‘Dale Winton Show’ over the next three years. Also in 1988, Dale regularly presented ‘Network 7’ for Channel 4, and joined Andy Craig and Fern Britton presenting ‘Home Today’ on ITV.

He began presenting with the satellite channel Lifestyle, and was soon given his own show. Other satellite work included a graphology strand and music reviews for BSkyB, and ‘Anything For Money’ on Sky One with Andrew O'Connor, in which he was sent out to persuade the unsuspecting public to perform outrageous tasks, for a few pounds under the eye of a hidden camera. He was out and about again with ‘Bobby Davro - Public Enemy Number One’ on BBC1, again asking the public to perform even more elaborate stunts. In 1995, Dale finished a long stint as the presenter of ‘Weekend’ in the Anglia region.

Dale has appeared as a special guest with the band St. Etienne at The Forum, bringing on a shopping trolley of goodies to throw to the crowd. He also appeared in the video for 'In-betweener' by Britpop band Sleeper.

Other guest appearances include ‘Surprise! Surprise!’, ‘Family Fortunes’, ‘The Upper Hand’, ‘You Bet!’, ‘Celebrity Squares’, ‘The Steve Wright Show’ and ‘The Mrs Merton Show’. He has also been a regular on ‘That’s Show Business’, displaying his wide knowledge and love of old films and Dusty Springfield. He has appeared several times on ‘Noel's House Party’, most notably to receive his “Gotcha”.

Dale's rise to household stardom began with the hugely popular ‘Supermarket Sweep’, and continued with ‘The Weekend Show’ and ‘Pets Win Prizes’, both for BBC1. In a completely different vein, he was seen in a cameo role in the hugely successful film ‘Trainspotting’.

Following the release of ‘Dale's Disco Divas’, he took over from Alan Freeman to present Radio 2’s legendary ‘Pick of the Pops’ show.