Non-motoring > Cheggers checks out. Miscellaneous
Thread Author: R.P. Replies: 15
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 14:30 
 Cheggers checks out. - R.P.
60 years old after a long illness.
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 14:40 
 Cheggers checks out. - Hard Cheese
Far too early ...

Only four years old than me.



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 Mon 11 Dec 17 14:40 
 Cheggers checks out. - R.P.
Indeed. Long term lung condition.
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:01 
 Cheggers checks out. - Crankcase
As a child I was always terrified he would knock on my door one Saturday morning with some ghastly swap or other.

However, in later years, this does make me laugh. I'm afraid though it does require you to be able to bear the Gervais laugh repeatedly. It's also what we would in this house call a bit Eskimo. You might just think it's not very family friendly.

youtu.be/RIbaZh-zzbA

Outtakes from Extras, an estimable series.
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:11 
 Cheggers checks out. - Dutchie
Cancer will take you any time and takes no prisoners.I remember his shows a bit daft but he came across as a likeable chap.
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:15 
 Cheggers checks out. - Zero
Cancer didnt get him.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:13 
 Cheggers checks out. - R.P.
Loved Extras...!
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:28 
 Cheggers checks out. - Pat
It may not be family friendly CC but I thought it was hliarious:)

Pat
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:31 
 Cheggers checks out. - Lygonos
Ricky's laugh is even more tiresome than Jimmy Carr's.

However, if I was sat 2 feet from Chegwin while he simulated fornication with his hands, while trying to keep a straight face, I think I would have soiled myself.

Repeatedly.
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:33 
 Cheggers checks out. - Boxsterboy
Gosh, that makes me feel old. I remember watching Swap Shop with him and Noel Edmonds and he wasn't THAT much older than me!
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 15:47 
 Cheggers checks out. - Bromptonaut
By time he hit telly I was probably working as he's only 2-3 years older. No real memory of him on TV but I seem to remember 'moral outrage' because it was evident from something in on of his programmes that he was sleeping with Maggie Philbin (before they were married).

Others in my house share watched the weekend morning stuff but even then I'd little time for daytime TV.
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 16:08 
 Cheggers checks out. - DP
I used to love Cheggers Plays Pop and Multi-Coloured Swapshop as a kid in the 80s. Cheggers always seemed to be a genuinely down to earth and likeable character both when presenting, and in interviews and so on. Sad that he died so young. RIP.
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 16:23 
 Cheggers checks out. - R.P.
didn't he er...."appear" in a naked quiz show once..?
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 18:56 
 Cheggers checks out. - zippy
Quite shocked at this! Thanks for all the mirth! RIP
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 Mon 11 Dec 17 19:04 
 Cheggers checks out. - Focal Point
Only 60 years old.

I recall recognising him with shock as the son of Banquo (Fleance) in Polanski's Macbeth (1971).

As I never watched his other antics on TV that is my abiding memory of him - as little more than a child (he was 15 at the time). To go from that to the news of his death is quite a jolt.
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 Tue 12 Dec 17 01:50 
 Cheggers checks out. - VxFan
Cheggers apparently was spotted regularly in and around Newbury (cos he lived not far down the road). Always had time for Joe Public.

I saw him in the town of Swindon a couple of times while he was using the ice rink there for practice while he was a contestant on Dancing On Ice. Likewise, always had time to stop and chat to Joe Public.

Never seemed at all miserable or up himself.
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