News about Terry Wogan

The TikTok generation can't believe their eyes and ears. Barely born when reality TV first hit our screens like effluent from a fire hose, today's teens and twentysomethings are discovering the very worst of 1990s and Noughties television. Shows that held millions mesmerised in horror when they first aired two decades ago are experiencing a resurgence on social media.

Helen and her children, who were left dead outside BBC Radio 2's London HQ to see the building renamed Wogan House (inset), are likely to be ruled out as the Beeb moves out. Sir Terry will be commemorated somewhere else, according to a BBC spokesperson who declines to say if he will be remembered elsewhere. Ken Bruce, his ex colleague, sees the change as a shame and has begged the Beeb to honor fellow DJ Steve Wright (right), who died last month.

That's wizard, Harry! As Warner Bros' TEN series about a new TV show about 'the boy who lived,' will be released in Leavesden, Herts, a £2 billion Harry Potter bonanza. Production details for the scheme, which will be based on J. K. Rowling's seven favorite books, have yet to be confirmed. However, this week, reports show that the Potter shows are absolutely intending to be shot in the United Kingdom, with British creative and technical talent front and center. The budget is expected to be about $200 million per series, bringing it into alignment with House Of The Dragon, which is also shot on the Warner Bros lot. The company revealed plans for the series in April last year and said it expects to begin filming later this year or early next year, as long as scripts and casting can be settled quickly.

I realised a tragic coincidence while standing in Steve Wright's old studio at Radio 2 this week. JEREMY VINE writes that the studio in which he talked live to the nation for more than 40 years had been gutted just days before his death. The symbolism was too heavy to bear. The studio was his home for Steve Wright, whom I would regard as much as a colleague.

According to the BBC's annual report, Radio 2 host Ball earned between £980,000 and £984,999 in 2022/23, a figure unchanged from the previous 12 months. She hosts both a breakfast show and a salute to Terry Wogan. Gary Lineker, who earned between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999, is the only one to have risen to the top of the BBC's highest earning position. In third place is Radio 4's Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne, who earned £399,999. Sophie Raworth, the fourth highest-earning female actor, was paid £365,000-£369,999. However, the figures show how the BBC's gender pay gap has widened to its highest level since 2018, with the figure at 7.3 percent up from 5.9 percent in 2021/22.

Pundit Lineker's pay ranged from £13,000 to £1,354,999 for work including Match Of The Day, coverage of the World Cup 2023, and Sports Personality Of The Year. Lineker first appeared on the list for 2017/18 with a wage range of £1,750,000 to £1,759,999, and in 2020 it was revealed that he had taken a voluntary wage cut. Despite a tumultuous Twitter debate earlier this year, his income remained stagnant. On Twitter, he caused outrage in March by comparing the government's language in connection with the migrant crisis to Nazi Germany. Zoe Ball is still the best paid actor and the highest compensated woman with a £984,999 salary for her Radio 2 breakfast show and a Radio 2 tribute to Terry Wogan. Alan Shearer, Lineker's Match Of The Day coworker, is in third place with a salary of £445,000 - £449,999, down from £450,000-£454,999 last year.

According to reports, the corporation will discuss with it a plan to launch 'Radio 2 Extra,' a station that will air repeats of vintage shows throughout the day. The idea would see the 'golden oldies' station host archive broadcasts of programmes starring deceased celebrities such as Sir Terry Wogan (pictured), Janice Long and John Peel, as well as other names such as Gloria Hunny and Simon Bates. According to the i newspaper, BBC local radio DJ Mark Punter, who runs the Vintage Vinyl podcast, has suggested the idea as a way of attracting listeners to the'mother station.'

As the UK co-hosts with Ukraine, whose Kalush Orchestra captured Turin last year with their song Stefania, the BBC pulled out all the stops to put on a glitzy spectacle. Due to the civil war, Ukraine is unable to host this 67th tournament, so the award has gone to the UK as runners-up with Sam Ryder's Space Man, with 26 countries competing in front of 160 million viewers.

Graham Norton is the talk of the glitzy town in the United Kingdom as Eurovision arrives. We take a look at Graham's one-year marriage ahead of his 14th year as host of the show, after taking over from Terry Wogan in 2009. Jonathan 'Jono' McLeod is a respected Scottish filmmaker and the couple married in July last year, having met six years ago.

When hosting Eurovision in the United Kingdom in 1998, Ulrika Jonsson recalled her cringeworthy clangers but later disclosed she was turned away from the lavish after-party. The model, 55, co-presented the show with Terry Wogan and told The Sun that it took the presenter 'countless' meetings and rehearsals to prepare for the live global broadcast that attracted'squillions' of viewers.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Advertisers have long understood that sex sells, but this past of female executives in the macho, chauvinist age of television ad campaigns has shown that it appeals best to women. Let's take a look at the Lynx ads, those tongue-in-cheek advertisements for a sickly perfume marketed at men who are too young to shave. The idea is that it's loaded with chemicals to make its wearer magically irresistible to the opposite sex - seduction by pheromones. Pictured: The women starring in Mad Women

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince George (right), a nine-year-old prince, has left a lasting mark in Coronation history by convincing his grandfather King Charles (left) to change the centuries old uniforms worn by pages of honour. One of the monarch's four pages, George, expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that he had to wear white knee breeches. A courtier whispers a courtier, 'He was also not keen on wearing tights and becoming a topic of ribaldry at school.' The King agreed and the breeches and tights were replaced with trousers. Charles was in no position to object.

JAN MOIR: Every morning, nine million of us tune in, soothed by his lowering presence and his peaty voice, with a hint of malt whisky bubbling over the smooth pebbles of pop. And now this! We're losing Ken, we're losing PopMaster, as well as the fluttering ribbon of contestants who have competed for many years. And no, not just for the chance to win a smart speaker or a CD wallet, but also for the opportunity to chat with Ken himself.

ALISON BOSHOFF: Eva Cassidy, a singer who died in 1996 and will have turned 60 next month, will be the subject of a new documentary starring two never-before-heard songs. When the film is released later this year, the producers, in addition to an unseen video footage of Cassidy, pictured, performing, as well as an unheard audio recording, will tell her the 'complete' story of her short life. Cassidy died of melanoma at the age of 33. Despite some success on the Washington, D.C. blues and jazz scene, she was still relatively unknown. However, Terry Wogan's version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow appeared on Radio 2 five years later. Cassidy's meteoric rise to the top of the charts and his triumphant posthumous career took the lead. 12 million copies of her music have been sold worldwide, with three albums reaching No. 1.

Fans have lauded Vivienne Westwood for remaining calm after her fashion designs were sluggishly mocked in an unearthed 1998 interview - as she is credited with being 'ahead of her time.' On Thursday, the fashion designer, who died at the age of 81, appeared on an episode of BBC talk show Wogan (not Terry Wogan) to showcase her latest collection. However, the audience and interviewer all laughed at her as she discussed the range, especially when she talked about male style becoming more feminine in the future to include men wearing 'twin sets and pearls'.

Dent (left) described how one individual in a coffee queue exclaimed that something was "the entire crotch of the matter," while another said in a text message that her boss was a "pre-Madonna." However, the Countdown whizz said that instead of the correct'said he' when singing hymns at church, she'll sing 'I am Lord of the Dance settee' instead of the incorrect'said he' (top right, Michael Flatly in the Irish musical Lord of the Dance). The lyrics, she explained, were about Jesus Christ dancing on a sofa, not the 1963 hymn Lord of the Dance. However, it is not limited to common phrases that Britons have erroneously mistook. People are often carried along by song lyrics. According to study from 2016, the top 40 most common misheard lyrics were found. Among them was a misquote of the main line of Starship's hit "We Built This City" (bottom right), with many Britons claiming that "We built this city on sausage rolls" rather than 'rock and roll.'

It was the zany 90s alternative to staid breakfast news shows, offering up a daily dose of silly games, celebrity interviews, and comedy sketches with puppets Zig and Zag...and it was the start of many careers. This week Dani Behr stepped back into the public eye, revealing a Hollywood makeover but how did the show's other presenters fare? FEMAIL takes a look at the latest developments in the country. (Pictured from top left: Paul O'Grady as Lily Savage, Paul O'Grady now, Chris Evans, then and now, Dani Behr, then and now, Zoe Ball, then and now)