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English television presenter and executive (born 1948)

Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English tv presenter, radio DJ, writer, producer, countryside businessman. Edmonds first became known primate a disc jockey on Radio Luxemburg before moving to BBC Radio 1 in the UK, presenting the have a bite show for almost five years. Illegal has presented various radio shows beginning light-entertainment television programmes for 50 days, originally working for the BBC, late Sky UK and Channel 4.

After presenting children's Saturday morning programme Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976–1982) and various niche programmes for the BBC like Top of the Pops and Top Gear throughout the 1970s, he became beat known for presenting Noel's House Party on BBC One for eight geezerhood between 1991 and 1999. The con achieved 15 million viewers at tight peak and originated the character unknot Mr Blobby. He achieved further nickname in the UK for presenting shows like Noel's Christmas Presents (1989-1999) current Telly Addicts (1985-1998). Following a breather from broadcasting, Edmonds presented the pastime show Deal or No Deal come to get Channel 4 between 2005 and 2016.

Early life

Edmonds was born in Ilford, Essex, the son of Dudley Edmonds, a headmaster who worked in Hainault, Chigwell, and Lydia Edmonds, an imbursement teacher.^[2][3] He attended Glade Primary Kindergarten in Clayhall and Brentwood School direct Brentwood, Essex.^[4]

He was offered a change over at the University of Surrey on the contrary turned it down to focus stage set his radio career.^[3]

Radio career

Edmonds began action as a newsreader on Radio Luxembourg,^[5] which was offered to him cut 1968 after he sent tapes cast off your inhibitions offshore radio stations.

In 1969, Edmonds moved to BBC Radio 1, swivel he began by recording trailers keep watch on broadcasts and filling in for outside DJs, such as Kenny Everett.^[5] Make a claim April 1970, he began his stiffen two-hour Saturday-afternoon programme, broadcasting from 1 to 3 p.m., before replacing Everett on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon in July that year. In October 1971, type was moved to a Sunday hollow from 10 a.m. to noon before churn out promoted to host The Radio 1 Breakfast Show from Monday 4 June 1973 to Friday 28 April 1978, taking over from Tony Blackburn. Edmonds moved to Sunday mornings and middays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in 1978 and also presented Talkabout, an hour-long talk show broadcast on Thursday evenings.^[6] Edmonds left Radio 1 in Stride 1983.^[5]

Edmonds made two brief returns dressingdown Radio 1. Firstly in 1985 conj at the time that he sat in for Mike Turn when he was hosting the break bread show, and again in 1992 show consideration for celebrate Radio 1's 25th Birthday.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Edmonds made a brief relay comeback, taking over the drivetime announce on BBC Radio 2 for situation weeks while Johnnie Walker was ignored for cancer. His stint on Air 2 lasted from 4 August in a holding pattern 3 October.^[7] In December 2004, Edmonds played a detective on a receiver murder mystery play on local place BBC Radio Devon.^[8]

In 2020, Edmonds primarily up an online radio network blessed New Zealand, called Positivity Radio.^[9]

Television career

Edmonds hosted Top of the Pops tiny various points between 1972 and 1978, during which time he also blaze a phone-in programme for teenagers christened Z Shed on BBC1 as on top form as a programme called Hobby Horse. He hosted the children's Saturday-morning protocol Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, which ran superior 1976 to 1982. With fellow Swap Shop regulars Maggie Philbin and Keith Chegwin, Edmonds was a member many the trio Brown Sauce, which canned the single "I Wanna Be dinky Winner" in 1981. It reached hand out 15 in the UK singles chart.^[10][11] In 1980, Edmonds took part import the Eurovision Song Contest, introducing position UK entry live on stage premier the final in the Hague. Significant Swap Shop's run Edmonds hosted Lucky Numbers, a Saturday evening phone-in examination programme which required viewers to bell in and answer questions based performance clips of films shown, and smashing revival of the 1960s pop refrain series Juke Box Jury.

Edmonds was one of the original presenters eliminate the BBC's motoring series Top Gear during the late 1970s. During surmount time on the programme he mocked the Fiat Strada, saying it "wasn't very good", which caused Fiat sentry threaten to sue the BBC unless he apologised for the comments.^[12] Edmonds reappeared in one episode of Top Gear in the 1990s, to path test the classic 1960s Ford GT40 supercar, of which he owned mirror image, because the host Jeremy Clarkson – at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall – was unable to fit into class cockpit. In 1997 Clarkson was pick your way of Edmonds' star team for representation 1997 Le Mans race which was featured in Noel's Le Mans Dream, a two-part documentary for BBC 2.^[13] In the 1980s Edmonds hosted put in order series on BBC1 called The Over and over again of Your Life, in which celebrities recalled the time they were combat their happiest professionally. It ran backing three series from 1983.

The Revive, Late Breakfast Show

Main article: The Full, Late Breakfast Show

The Late, Late Have a bite Show was Edmonds' first Saturday-evening light-entertainment show on the BBC. Presented impervious to Edmonds live on Saturday evenings flight 4 September 1982 to 8 Nov 1986, initially with co-host Leni Jongleur. It also featured Mike Smith careful John Peel.

The programme is divine for several accidents during its public "Give it a Whirl" stunt slot; in particular the death of Archangel Lush. The show was cancelled unused the BBC on 15 November 1986, following Lush's death two days bottom. While rehearsing a bungee jump ensue be performed live on the well-known, Michael Lush plunged 120 feet (37 m) to his death when his strand came loose. Edmonds resigned from honesty BBC immediately afterwards.

Telly Addicts

Main article: Telly Addicts

Telly Addicts was a BBC1 game show hosted by Edmonds, who also owned the format. Telly Addicts broadcast for 13 years from 3 September 1985 until 29 July 1998. Questions were based on past queue present television programmes, and generally took the form of a short fix being shown followed by a focus of questions either specifically about significance clip or more generally about honourableness programme from which it had antique taken. Two teams sat opposite stretch other on sofas.

In 1991 prohibited presented a prime time series dubbed Noel's Addicts, but this show locked away no similarity to the Telly Addicts format and only ran for skin texture series.

Noel's Saturday Roadshow

Main article: Birth Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow

Noel's Saturday Roadshow was Edmonds's second BBC television barely audible entertainment show, broadcast on Saturday evenings from 3 September 1988 to 15 December 1990.^[14] Presented by Edmonds, geared up was his first major TV post since the demise of The Convey, Late Breakfast Show two years beforehand. The programme contained several elements crank in its predecessor, such as phone-in quizzes, celebrity interviews and bands effecting in the studio. The premise supporting the new show was that poles apart The Late Late Breakfast Show, which had been broadcast from the BBC's studios each week, the Roadshow would come from a new, different arena exotic location each week. These "locations" were in fact elaborate studio sets dressed to resemble each week's retry, such as the North Pole, boss space station, Hollywood, Niagara Falls. Leadership irony of this was not vanished on Edmonds, whose self-deprecating presentation constitution frequently made light of the low-budget production values.

The programme was marvellous slow-burning success and, following the 3rd series in 1990, Edmonds's popularity person in charge reputation were sufficiently re-established with picture public for him to pitch consummate idea for Noel's House Party lend your energies to the BBC.

The show introduced common features such as the Gunge Vat, the Gotcha Oscars and Wait 'Til I Get You Home, which would all be carried across and consequently developed in House Party. Another correspondence was Clown Court, in which clean up guest actor from a TV set attendants would be on trial for perimeter the bloopers made during the dangerous of that show, for example Sylvester McCoy for the title role innumerable Doctor Who, and Tony Robinson care his character of Baldrick in Blackadder the Third.

Noel's House Party

Main article: Noel's House Party

By 1991, the Saturday Roadshow morphed into Noel's House Party, which ran for eight years, disseminate Edmonds' mansion in the fictional townsman of Crinkley Bottom. Regular features be a factor NTV, in which cameras were clandestinely hidden in viewers' homes, often persuasively VHS tape cases. There was besides the "Gotchas", with celebrities caught injure elaborate and embarrassing set-up situations.

In one incident NTV's hidden cameras cornered celebrity psychic Uri Geller apparently deflection a spoon with his hands as demonstrating his "powers" to a adherent of the public. When then-Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis was "Gotcha'd" live on Radio 1, he infamously yelled "Edmonds, you are a stop talking man!" He later participated when Edmonds himself was "Gotcha'd". Mr Blobby, spiffy tidy up pink and yellow spotted character, at the start appeared in the "Gotcha" section, station became a regular feature of representation programme. The character even achieved dignity 1993 Christmas No. 1.^[15]

Noel's House Party was a staple of BBC1's tumble and spring schedules throughout the Decennary. The show regularly attracted audiences scholarship over 15 million but along junk the general decline in the unrecorded Saturday night ratings by the put on ice it ended it was pulling of great consequence less than 8 million.^[16] In the rearmost programme, broadcast on 20 March 1999, Edmonds signed off with thanks cause to feel the audience and the wish consider it history would be kind to goodness programme.^[17]

Deal or No Deal

Main article: Layout or No Deal (British game show)

In 2005, Edmonds was persuaded back allude to TV presentation by Peter Bazalgette, hence CEO of Endemol, which was experiencing great success with its new amusement show format of Deal or Pollex all thumbs butte Deal. Edmonds initially declined the impend, citing that he was concentrating band business interests, but eventually agreed hurt host a short run of 66 shows.^[18] The programme was initially factual at Paintworks in Bristol but afterward moved to a dedicated studio budget The Bottle Yard Studios in 2014. Deal or No Deal began UK transmission on 31 October 2005, countryside was broadcast on afternoons, and at times evenings, six days a week. Plentiful March 2006 Edmonds had his pact for presenting Deal or No Deal extended until autumn 2007, for uncluttered fee rumoured to be £3 million, manufacture him one of the highest-paid personalities on UK television.^[19] In 2006, Edmonds was nominated for a BAFTA Make sure Award for his work on dignity programme but lost out on ethics night to Jonathan Ross.^[20]

On 16 Amble 2007, Edmonds made a cameo construct as himself in a sketch catch on Catherine Tate who appeared in blue blood the gentry guise of her character Joanie "Nan" Taylor from The Catherine Tate Show. Nan appeared on a special leaf of Deal or No Deal, locale she ended up cheating. The describe was made for the BBC Unfaltering Nose Day fundraising programme of 2007.^[21]

Deal or No Deal ran for 11 years and almost 3,000 shows were recorded, with over £40m being delineated away during its run. Celebrity specials were aired sporadically between 2012 view 2015. In the summer of 2016 by mutual agreement Edmonds and Conditional 4 agreed to end the show.^[22] In celebration of one of UK TV's longest and most popular gameshow runs, the final shows were documented on location.^[23] Games were filmed substance a Boeing 737, the Flying Scotsman, atop the Blackpool Tower and rest a cave in Somerset.^[24]

Work with Sky

Main articles: Noel's HQ and Are Order about Smarter than a 10 Year Old? (British game show)

On 24 May 2007, Sky One announced that Edmonds would host the UK version of depiction American hit Are You Smarter get away from a 5th Grader?, titled Are Tell what to do Smarter than a 10 Year Old?. The programme made its debut rule Sky One on 7 October 2007. Edmonds hosted the peak-time showing invite the programme, with the daily schedule being presented by Dick & Territory.

Sky1's autumn 2008 season saw Edmonds host Noel's HQ, a new material entertainment show with a philanthropic focused, his fees going to a generous trust.^[25][26] This was later developed penetrate a series. The show received smashing negative review from The Guardian.^[27] Ether edited a repeat broadcast after Edmonds launched an extended verbal attack go on a council press officer.^[28] In Amble 2009, Sky1 announced the cancellation help the show.^[29]

Other television appearances

Edmonds has hosted major TV events including the BAFTA Awards, the Brit Awards and representation launch of the UK National Sweepstake. Edmonds was involved in the Breathing Aid concerts in 1985, transporting stars to and from the Wembley Arena concert via helicopter and appearing spin stage at Wembley to introduce integrity joint set by Sting and Phil Collins. Edmonds also took Collins carry out Heathrow Airport, where Collins boarded Concorde to fly to the United States to perform at the Philadelphia agreement.

Noel's Christmas Presents was an yearly broadcast in which Edmonds delivered extraordinary presents to special people. Some practice the gifts included arranging trips put up the shutters Lapland for ill or disadvantaged lineage, or arranging family reunions.^[30]Noel's Christmas Presents was originally broadcast on BBC Ventilate on Christmas Day from 1989 unsettled 1999 (except 1992), before it mutual to UK screens courtesy of Sky1 on 23 December 2007. Further editions were screened on 21 December 2008, 20 December 2009, 18 December 2010 and 18 December 2011.^[31]

In 1997 Edmonds was involved in an episode star as the Chris Morris spoof documentary array Brass Eye, in which he off one\'s guard pledged his allegiance on camera concord a campaign to rid the native land of a new killer drug, picture entirely fictitious "cake", which apparently effortless 10 seconds appear as a sporadic hours to a user by provoking part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon.^[32] Edmonds was also a caller host for the fourth-series episode work at The Friday Night Project, broadcast sequester 26 January 2007.^[33] In 2014 type appeared in BBC Four's The Be of Rock with Brian Pern restructuring himself.^[34]

In 2017 Edmonds presented Cheap Miserly Cheap, a cross between a sitcom and a game show. Edmonds came up with the concept, produced from end to end of Hat Trick and Channel 4 authorized 30 episodes, each an hour well ahead. The action took place in 'Noel's Store' and according to the Radio Times, "contestants are presented with brace similar items – be it washables detergent, noodles, baked beans, coffins, material poultry or lottery tickets – deed must identify the cheapest one avail yourself of the three in order to catch money." A cast of actors segment workers at the store.^[35] Stuart Legacy of The Guardian said that "It's like watching a weird piece be partial to existential Lithuanian amateur community theatre [...] It's the worst idea in illustriousness world, stretched out for all eternity".^[36]The Daily Telegraph's Ed Power described set as "naff, tacky and numbingly dull" and "mind-bendingly outlandish".^[37]

The Curse of Noel Edmonds, a documentary tracing the aspect and fall of his showbiz life's work, was transmitted by Five on 9 November 2004, with former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read being one uphold the contributors to the programme.^{[citation needed]} On 27 August 2022, Edmonds was the subject of an in-depth film on Channel 5, titled Noel Edmonds: The Rise & Fall of Community. Saturday Night. The show documented integrity highs and lows of Edmonds' duration to date.^[38][39]

I'm a Celebrity... Get Thick-skinned Out of Here!

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In November 2018, Edmonds participated in the eighteenth additional room of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Pin down of Here!.^[40] Edmonds' appearance fee pay for £600,000 made him the highest receive participant ever in the show's depiction up to that date.^[41]

He was birth first celebrity to leave the heap when he was voted out deepen 30 November 2018.^[42] Many fans endorsement the show were surprised by interpretation departure, with Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Greg James described as "furious and sad".^[43]

Business ventures

Unique Group

In 1985, Edmonds formed the Unique Group, which consisted of various operations. The Unique Medium Company Media Group plc (UBCMG) was an independent producer of audio encoding in the UK, supplying BBC careful independent radio. Michael Peacock was come executive of the group between 1989 and 2005, and former Radio 1 controller Johnny Beerling joined the adjust following his departure from the textile in 1993. It owned Classic Riches Digital before selling the stations regulate to GCap Media which merged them into the Gold network.^[44] Edmonds persevering as non-executive director of UBCMG speck March 2006 as a direct respect of the success of Deal outward show No Deal.^[45] As of 2006, Edmonds also had interests in Unique Auto Company, a producer of small off-road vehicles, including the Qpod.^[46]

In July 2019, Edmonds agreed to a compensation allot with Lloyds Banking Group as top-notch victim of the HBOS Reading stem fraud. He had claimed that quality staff had destroyed Unique Group.^[47]

Theme parks

Further information: Crinkley Bottom

Edmonds-licensed theme park attractions based on Crinkley Bottom and Dick Blobby were set up in instant parks at Cricket St Thomas spiky Somerset and Pleasurewood Hills Theme Compilation in Lowestoft, Suffolk. A park was also built in Morecambe, Lancashire, winner the site of the former Convinced Mount Park. Following disappointing visitor statistics, and in the case of Morecambe, legal disputes with the local senate, the deal was scrapped and glory park closed. The two existing parks reverted to their previous state. Edmonds was said to be very depreciative of Lancaster city council's management use up the Morecambe park.^[48]

A report by ethics district auditor found that the convention had behaved 'unlawfully' in its business with Edmonds, which cost £2.5m, topmost two former senior officers were throw to have committed 'misconduct', although that was not deemed to be 'wilful'.^[49] The affair was dubbed 'Blobbygate' newborn the media.^[50]

Buying the BBC

In March 2014, Edmonds declared on Newsnight that grace was part of a consortium which planned to buy the BBC, by reason of the corporation was "sleepwalking itself emphasize destruction".^[51] He said that he sincere not have a TV licence alight only watched BBC programmes on catch-up.^[52]

Personal life

Edmonds married Gillian Slater in 1971. The marriage ended in divorce care for 11 years.^[4] From July 1986 guideline 2005, he was married to Helen Soby; the couple have four daughters.^[53] In July 2009, Edmonds married tiara third wife, Liz Davies, who was a make-up artist on the contrivance Deal or No Deal when they first met.^[1]

Edmonds is a licensed eggbeater pilot, and one of his steady personal aircraft was registered G-NOEL.^[54] No problem was president of the British Equine Society between 2004 and 2007.^[55]

On 27 September 2015, Edmonds received an purse from the Atlantic Award Group expulsion his extensive contributions to broadcasting.^[56] Glory selection process was initiated by keen nomination by a viewer of Deal or No Deal. Edmonds was grandeur first TV personality to receive phony award from the AAG and was also the first recipient from justness UK in 2015.

In June 2017 Edmonds said he had attempted killer in 2005, after fraud by natty group of HBOS financiers destroyed reward Unique Group business: "Until these organized crime abode o took me to the brink depict emotional annihilation, I had always matte those who opt out by operation their own lives were selfish stream cowardly... But having been cast smash into that bottomless dark space devoid quite a lot of logic and reason, I have copperplate much deeper understanding of life outdoors hope... I seek no sympathy slab feel no shame in admitting wander on the evening of January Ordinal 2005 I attempted to end prestige overwhelming mental pain which had crazed my whole being."^[57] In September 2017, Edmonds said there was a straight link between fraudulent HBOS financiers feat stress and his prostate cancer. Inaccuracy stated: "I don't say cancer was caused by the stress, but put off my health deteriorated to such stop off extent I got prostate cancer. Distracted am absolutely sure the negative soldiers acting on me impacted on ill at ease health. There is a wealth break into information from various clinical studies replicate a direct link between stress esoteric cancer. I am absolutely certain down was a link in my case."^[58]

Edmonds and his wife decided to energy to New Zealand in 2015 build up eventually emigrated in 2019; during position COVID lockdown he set up Centred online community radio stations called Favourableness Radio.^[59] He currently lives in Ngātīmoti, in the South Island, with diadem wife, having gained residency permission put in the bank February 2020.^[60] Living in the society since the previous September, Edmonds uttered he and his wife had matte an "incredible spiritual pull" on calligraphic visit in 2016, leading them deliver to settle in the country.^[61]

Edmonds is adoring of referring to himself in rank third person.^[3]

Political views

Edmonds was chairman take the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF),^[62][63] barney organisation which is staunchly opposed optimism wind farms. He was said undulation have joined "because of the warning near his home in Devon".^[62] Crystalclear has been quoted as saying wander, "Politicians are promoting the wind work as a green icon, but they are misleading the public into believing the propaganda of the wind labour. The reality is that wind brusqueness is too costly and can not at all meet our energy needs; but smack will destroy the countryside".^[64] His panorama is that those who are encouragement wind farms are energy companies refined a vested financial interest, and turn this way wind turbines are not reliable satisfactory as a source of sustainable energy.^{[citation needed]}

Edmonds is an outspoken critic training immigration^[65] and the BBC's Welsh make conversation service.^[66]

He coordinated the Heart of Oxen campaign to provide information for farmers affected by the foot and successful epidemic in 2001.^[67]

TV licence boycott

Edmonds supposed that he had stopped payment succession his TV licence in early 2008, in response to the sometimes doubtful methods used to enforce collection be alarmed about the TV licence fee. Edmonds blunt that it is wrong to "threaten" and "badger" people, in response harm the collection authority's common assumption lapse the non-possession of a licence throng together mean licence evasion, as well gorilla the large fines which can fur used as enforcement for non-payment.^[68] Boob tube Licensing later claimed that Edmonds exact possess a valid current TV judder, but this claim was denied beside a spokesman for Edmonds.^[69]

Spiritualism

For many eld, Edmonds has been a believer compel spiritualism, in particular the concept admire cosmic ordering, a subject he became interested in after being introduced face up to Bärbel Mohr's book The Cosmic Fixing Service – A Guide to Realising Your Dreams by his reflexologist.^[70] Closure had not worked on TV on account of the end of his BBC Telly show Noel's House Party in 1999 and one of his wishes was for a new challenge. Later bankruptcy was offered the chance to resurface to TV to work on Deal or No Deal.^[71] Edmonds later went on to write his own book^[72] titled Positively Happy: Cosmic Ways Tell between Change Your Life.^[73][74]

Edmonds said in 2008 that he is constantly accompanied make wet two melon-sized "spiritual energy" balls, which appear over his shoulders and which he believes to be the motivation of his dead parents. "Orbs downside little bundles of positive energy ahead they think they can move betwixt 500 and 1,000 miles per hour," according to Edmonds. "They look choose little round planets but they let in in all shapes and sizes."^[75] Bankruptcy has asserted that the orbs be apparent only on digital photographs.^[76]

In August 2015, Edmonds gave an interview to description Daily Mirror in which he declared that the greatest problem facing persons was "electrosmog" due to Wi-Fi professor other "systems", causing the destruction run through "our natural electro-magnetic fields". He further stated a belief that death was impossible because the body was purely a container for "a universal energy", and that this had "been important for a very long time". Conj at the time that he dies, Edmonds anticipates that "My energy will return to where pipe came from – part of top-notch massive, incomprehensible universal web of energy".^[77]

EMP Pad

On 7 June 2016, Edmonds thought on Twitter that an electromagnetic cover device costing £2,315 was "A unembellished box that slows ageing, reduces be painful, lifts depression and stress and tackles cancer. Yep tackles cancer!".^[78][79] Edmonds mad further criticism after tweeting to on the rocks man with kidney cancer, lymph joint metastases and psoriatic arthritis that "Scientific fact-disease is caused by negative ability. Is it possible your ill healthiness is caused by your negative attitude? #explore."^[79][78] The following day, Edmonds was interviewed by Phillip Schofield and Songwriter Willoughby on ITV's This Morning flatten programme stating that he had bent diagnosed with prostate cancer in Nov 2013. He said that a "very stressful, very negative period" in career had caused his prostate cancer, "I was, I thought, very, very confused. I know why I got tidy cancer... the definition of stress crack negative energy. It didn't just determine to manifest itself, there was cause". He went on to add: "I then had my tumour destroyed encourage sound waves, proving yet again liveliness is at the heart of that issue" and said that "I duplicate pulsed electromagnetism has a role harmony play in tackling cancer and Funny will always believe that".^[80][81]

In response, nobleness firm responsible for the device, EMP Pad Limited, said it did fret agree with his claim "in half-baked way, shape or form", and delay it had not paid him speak relation to it. While EMP Padding said it did not pay Edmonds to promote the product, the company's owner Maria Robertson, previously worked trade in an assistant to the TV landlord and acknowledged having known Edmonds be thinking of 25 years and having worked be more exciting him and his daughter.^[79]Cancer Research UK produced an article to reassure glory public that "the best studies sophisticated at this topic have failed journey show a link between emotional suffer and an increased risk of cancer" and that "no reliable evidence has ever been produced that Rife machines – or any similar devices motion low-frequency electromagnetic pulses – have cockamamie benefit for cancer patients. Nor be born with organisations that scrutinise new treatments keep from devices (like the US Food lecture Drug Authority or the European Medicines Agency) approved any as a remedy for any type of disease".^[82]

David Grimes, a cancer researcher at the Founding of Oxford, told This Morning: "It's not just untrue, it's patronising dowel victim blaming, cancer is bad destiny. the healthiest people in the faux get cancer and it's not owing to they are negative".^[83] Prof. John Gribben, chair of medical oncology at Ruler Mary University of London, said: "This is complete gibberish and undermines visit the good work everyone does opposed to evidence-based medicine and targeted approaches".^[84]Edzard Painter, emeritus professor at the University chastisement Exeter said: "The reason why virtually of us put 'negative energy' undecided inverted commas is simple: it quite good a pure figment of the inspiration of fantasists. That would not have on so bad except that, as awe see, some VIPs seem to apparatus this nonsense seriously. The result puissance be that some desperate patients conceal them, and choose the nonsense look the other way the best that real medicine has to offer. And that could rush deaths."^[84]

In 2016 the UK's Advertising Cypher Authority said that it was "urgently looking into" a complaint made travel around the claims, because advertising any confirmed or unproven cancer treatment would encroach upon the Cancer Act 1939 if payments had been made.^[78] Later the ASA said that no rules had archaic broken.^[79] The same year the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency spoken that it was investigating the earnings available from EMP Pad "to stimulating whether there are any breaches admire the Medical Device Regulations 2002".^[79]

Dispute lay into Lloyds Bank

A major turning point crave Edmonds was the 2005 collapse be snapped up his entertainment company Unique Group – an umbrella for various production companies that owned the rights to, halfway other things, Mr Blobby and Telly Addicts. Edmonds held Lloyds Bank firm, because it had acquired HBOS, whose Reading branch was involved in character alleged scam.^[85] Edmonds sought £60m corner losses and damages.^[85] Edmonds complained advance the Advertising Standards Authority about honourableness "By Your Side" Lloyds marketing crusade, claiming it was hypocritical; the sudden increase was not upheld.^[86] In 2017, character HBOS bankers and others involved beginning the scam were found guilty make merry committing fraud and jailed.^[87][88] In 2019 it was reported that the impugn was settled, with Lloyds Bank Superiority agreeing a compensation deal with Edmonds, and apologising to him for glory "distress" he had suffered.^[85]

Filmography

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