Dale Winton

At 62 years old, Dale Winton has this physical status:

Dale Jonathan Winton (22 May 1955 – 18 April 2018) was an English radio DJ and television presenter.

In 1993, 2001, 2001, and again in 2007, the National Lottery game show In It to Win It (1992, 2004 and the 2008 series of Hole in the Wall, he appeared on Dale's Supermarket Sweep.

(1995–96) and The Other Half (1997–2002) were among Winton's winners.

Early life

Winton was born on May 22, 1955 to actress Sheree Winton, a Jewish convert, and comedian Gary Winton. On the day of his bar mitzvah, Winton's father died and his mother took him up. While suffering from depression, Winton's mother died by suicide in 1976.

Personal life and death

Winton's autobiography, in which he wrote about his rise to fame and his actress mother's suicide, came out as homosexual. During the 2016 US presidential election, Winton endorsed US President Donald Trump. Jan Kennedy, Winton's long-serving agent, announced that he had died at his house on April 18th. A Scotland Yard spokesperson said on 19 April that police were treating the death as "unexplained" but that they did not consider it suspicious.

"Dale had a lot of things wrong, he had pain with arthritis, he had a heart attack, he had a chest infection, and we all know how the winter affected this.' He had asthma as well. Winton died of natural causes, according to the coroner. Winton had recently converted from a £2.9 million apartment in Regent's Park to a Whetstone, North London property. On May 22, 2018, Winton's friends celebrated his life with a non-religious humanist funeral service from Humanists UK. It was his birthday. His eulogy was preserved as part of a national historical archive of humanist funerals.

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Career

In 1972, Winton began DJing in Richmond, where he first met Steve Allen, the LBC radio presenter. The two became close friends after that time and spent a short time together as well as going on holiday together. He began selling timeshares from there. Winton started his music career on the London club circuit in 1982, where he DJ'd at weekends. He was introduced to United Biscuits Radio Network, where he did a variety of jobs for Adrian Love before he became a host of the morning show. From here he started Radio Trent in Nottingham, where he appeared on a weekend morning show, before transferring to a number of other local radio stations, including Chiltern Radio, Beacon Radio (in Wolverhampton) and Blue Danube Radio in Vienna, Austria.

Winton took over Alan Freeman to host Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2, and then continued the show until Tony Blackburn was replaced on October 30, 2010. On BBC Radio 2, Winton sat in for Steve Wright and Liza Tarbuck, both covering the latter's Saturday show in September 2013 and December 2016.

Winton began his television career on Pet Watch in 1986 before working for Channel 4, Lifestyle Channel, and ITV. He appeared on ITV from 1993 to 2000 during Dale's Supermarket Sweep. After a 5-plus-year absence, Supermarket Sweep was revived in 2007. In Danny Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting, Winton portrayed himself as an annoying game show host.

Winton hosted Pets Win Prizes on BBC's Saturday night game show Pets Win Prizes. He appeared in the final of The Great British Song Contest in 1997, the UK's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, due to a tie-in with the lottery. He also hosted The Other Half, a dating show from 2000 to 2002. In 1999, he appeared on Gimme Gimme with Kathy Burke in the episode Do They Take Sugar?

Barbara Windsor - Hall Of Fame 2000 TV Special, the induction of Barbara Windsor as the first artist to be inducted into the newly established BBC Hall of Fame in 2000.

When Michael Aspel surprised him in 2000, he was on This Is Your Life. Touch the Truck, Channel 5's endurance show Touch the Truck debuted in 2001. In 2002, Winton first appeared on the National Lottery game show In It to Win It. He appeared in the BBC Three mockumentary, Dale's Wedding, in which he reportedly married UK celebrity Nell McAndrew.

He hosted two series of Stars Reunited from 2003-2004, in which the casts of popular British television shows were reunited after many years. Celebrity Fit Club, an ITV channel, screened three series of the celebrity weight loss "boot camp" program between 2004 and 2006.

In 2008, Winton hosted Hole In The Wall, based on the Japanese original, where contestants in skin-tight lycra costumes contorted themselves to fit through bizarrely-shaped holes in a moving wall. In 2009, the show returned for a second season, but Anton du Beke took over Winton as the host. In 2010, Winton began to appear in television commercials for cashmygold.co.uk. Come Fly With Me, a comedy film starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. In the last episode of the series, he appeared as himself. In 2012, he hosted Dale's Great Getaway on ITV, and Winton hosted Travelogue Series Dale Winton's Florida Fly Drive on Channel 5.

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