As well as being a Radio 2 newsreader, who provides the voiceovers for Strictly Come Dancing and, due to his work on various lottery shows, is known as “The Voice of the Balls”?
Alan Dedicoat at the station, Dedicoat's final news bulletin on BBC Radio 2 was at 5pm on Friday 27 March 2015. However, he will continue voicing the National Lottery programmes and "Strictly Come Dancing". It was as part of "Wake up to Wogan" that Dedicoat acquired the nicknames "Voice of the Balls" and "Deadly" from Sir Terry Wogan, the latter by way of a deliberate Spoonerism - "Deadly Alancoat"; he also acquired the nickname "The Wealdstone WeatherBoy" due to the town's closeness with Dedicoat's home town of Harrow. On television, as well as his role on the National Lottery, he also takes
Strictly Come Dancing relationship break-ups that have occurred during or soon after taking part in the show. The first such incident was the suggested affair between dancer Brendan Cole and newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky during the initial series: they both denied the affair, but the surrounding controversy resulted in the ending of both their long term relationships. An example of "Strictly Come Dancing"s popularity is that after episodes, electricity use in the United Kingdom rises significantly as viewers who have waited for the show to end begin boiling water for tea, a phenomenon known as TV pick-up. National Grid personnel watch the show to