National Lottery (United Kingdom) the games. The majority of National Lottery draws take place on live television. The first National Lottery show (entitled "The National Lottery Live: The First Draw") was at 7 pm on Saturday 19 November 1994. Presented by Noel Edmonds, this was an hour long special, in which 49 contestants competed to become the first person to start the draw, the winner being 18-year-old Deborah Walsh. The first number to be drawn was 30. For its first few years, the TV show took the title "The National Lottery Live", and was presented mainly by Anthea Turner or Bob Monkhouse. Other notable
Cathal O'Shannon (TV presenter) November 2011. It had originally aired in 2008 to mark his 80th birthday. Cathal O'Shannon (TV presenter) Cathal O'Shannon (23 August 1928 – 22 October 2011) was an Irish journalist and television presenter. He was a former journalist with "The Irish Times" newspaper and a former TV reporter and presenter for RTÉ. He was probably best known for presenting documentaries on Irish history, produced mainly for Irish television viewers and broadcast by RTÉ. On 12 January 2007, after producing his most recent documentary, he stated that he had fully retired. In a 2008 television documentary he "outed himself as a