Darts chief Des Jacklin slammed for Covid-19 lockdown breach after making nine-hour, 430-mile trip from Lincolnshire to South Wales to collect BDO World Championship trophy after police had recovered it from 2020 winner Wayne Warren BDO chairman Des Jacklin wrote in Facebook post he’d made the nine-hour, cross-country journey to pick up World Championship trophy … Read more
Darts chief Des Jacklin slammed for Covid-19 lockdown breach after making nine-hour, 430-mile trip from Lincolnshire to South Wales to collect BDO World Championship trophy after police had recovered it from 2020 winner Wayne Warren BDO chairman Des Jacklin wrote in Facebook post he’d made the nine-hour, cross-country journey to pick up World Championship trophy … Read more
Jodie Brooke Wilson couldn’t accept what the doctors were saying when they told her two months ago that her brilliant and much-loved husband Des O’Connor had died. He was 88 and in hospital following a fall but, after 30 wondrous years together, she couldn’t imagine a world without him. She still can’t. ‘Des was getting … Read more
Jodie Brooke Wilson couldn’t accept what the doctors were saying when they told her two months ago that her brilliant and much-loved husband Des O’Connor had died. He was 88 and in hospital following a fall but, after 30 wondrous years together, she couldn’t imagine a world without him. She still can’t. ‘Des was getting … Read more
‘Even now daddy can still make me laugh’: Des O’Connor’s singer daughter Kristina, 32, pays heartbreaking tribute to her father and reveals their last moments together Kristina O’Connor, 32, is distraught but overwhelmed by the mass of tributes She revealed their deeply emotional last moment together where he welled up She said: ‘Even now, … Read more
The best show I ever played was with Des O’Connor, Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett, the four of us presenting the 100th Royal Variety Show. Des was as excited as me. There was a boyish enthusiasm that never left him. This command performance in 2012 was at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time, … Read more
What a gift for the headline writers. One evening in December 1980 an argument broke out at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire. A few of the prisoners wanted to watch a Panorama documentary on the only TV set in the young offenders’ wing. The rest were insisting on a variety show…Des O’Connor Tonight on BBC2. … Read more
The best show I ever played was with Des O’Connor, Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett, the four of us presenting the 100th Royal Variety Show. Des was as excited as me. There was a boyish enthusiasm that never left him. This command performance in 2012 was at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time, … Read more
What a gift for the headline writers. One evening in December 1980 an argument broke out at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire. A few of the prisoners wanted to watch a Panorama documentary on the only TV set in the young offenders’ wing. The rest were insisting on a variety show…Des O’Connor Tonight on BBC2. … Read more
Des O’Connor, who has died at the age of 88, was an all-round entertainer whose success spanned decades, appearing as a regular in prime-time television slots. O’Connor was born in Stepney in London’s East End in 1932 to a Jewish cleaner and an Irish binman. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he was evacuated … Read more