Born John Richard Whiteley on 28 December 1943, died 26 June 2005 (aged 61). Richard Whiteley presented the long running British Game Show Countdown. The show has run for over sixty-five series. It was first broadcast with Richard as host on 2 November 1982. Richard sat as host for over 23 years and died tragically of heart complications due to pneumonia.
With over 5,000 episodes, the show is one of the longest-running game shows in the world, along with the original French version, 'Des chiffres et des lettres', which has been running on French television continuously since 1965.
The video I link here is the emotional tribute co-host Carol Vorderman made following Richard's untimely death. If you are not from the UK or Ireland you will not understand how constant and unchanging Countdown has been and the beacon of British Television and British Game-shows that it was and remains. Some of the contestants of this show are truly remarkable one of the most notable for me would be 11 year old Kai Laddiman who was the youngest 8-time champion of the show.
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