Angus Deayton Angus Deayton Gordon Angus Deayton (; born 6 January 1956) is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game "Have I Got News for You", a job from which he was dismissed in October 2002 after a second round of tabloid allegations about his personal life. He was also the host of British panel show "Would I Lie To You?" from 2007–2008. He also played Victor Meldrew's long-suffering neighbour Patrick Trench in the comedy series "One Foot in the Grave", and George Windsor in the final three series of "Waterloo
Have I Got News for You of show business that goes on in putting on a show," continued Merton. "We found very early on that it's worth seeing the questions beforehand so that you can work out your depth of ignorance. If you really don't know, you think, 'Well, I've really got to try and say something here.' It's much better to be doing that for ten or fifteen minutes before the show than be doing it when the cameras are rolling, in front of an audience, going, 'Well, who's he?'" Norman Tebbit wrote an article in "The Mail on Sunday" criticising the whole programme: 'Well,