Angus Deayton

Gordon Angus Deayton (born January 6, 1956) is a British comic actor and television presenter. He is best-known as the presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News For You, a job from which he was sacked in October 2002 after a second round of tabloid revelations about his personal life.

Early life

Brought up in Surrey and attending Caterham School, Deayton showed early promise as a footballer, and had a trial with Crystal Palace. A sporting career was not to be, and he read languages at New College, Oxford, where he was recruited into a satirical revue for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This led to the creation of the parody band the Hee Bee Gee Bees in 1980. Their best selling single "Meaningless Songs" (plus the B-side "Posing in the Moonlight") was a parody of the falsetto style of countless disco hits from Australian pop group the Bee Gees. The parody songs were written by Richard Curtis and Philip Pope.

Related Topics:
Surrey - Caterham School - Football - Crystal Palace - New College - Oxford - Edinburgh Festival - 1980 - Falsetto - Bee Gees - Richard Curtis - Philip Pope

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