Simon Thomas (presenter) 2:1 BA Hons degree in history. Having applied for the job three times, Thomas began presenting the children's programme "Blue Peter" on 8 January 1999 replacing the sacked presenter Richard Bacon. Previously he had worked as a runner at Children's BBC and the radio station LBC. During his tenure at "Blue Peter", he ran in the London Marathon twice and two Great North Runs, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and Mont Blanc, completed over 40 solo sky dives with the Royal Air Force, presented a medal at the Commonwealth Games, ran in the 60 metres sprint at the Norwich Union Indoor Athletics
Angus Deayton Barclaycard and the films "Savage Hearts" and "Elizabeth". In an episode of "Coupling", he appears in a fantasy sequence with Mariella Frostrup. In addition, he hosted the late-1990s BBC show "Before They Were Famous", which showed early and frequently embarrassing clips of TV and film stars (including Deayton himself) when they were relatively unknown. In May 2002, the "News of the World" suggested he had taken cocaine and had sex with prostitutes. He was ridiculed by Paul Merton and Ian Hislop in the following episode of "Have I Got News For You" but continued as presenter. Deayton began the episode