Tony Hart

[chico enrico]

There used to be lots of decent kids TV presenters, many were middle-aged like enthusiastic uncles. You don't get that any more.

Yes. Like Johnny Morris.

Now it's all folk who look like backing dancers for Cher who get caught snorting coke in Soho House or having their balls slapped by Sophie Strict.

 

[beeboo]

Did anyone else think he was dead?

Umm...

*raises hand*

That is really sad....although it's good to hear that until recently he was still active...running 4 miles a day - that's impressively active for a 20 year old, for someone in their late 70's/early 80's that is awesome. And also good to hear he's still so actively committed to art.

It's sad the condition he's in now, but that's a flippin' impressive life he's had.

 

[tendril]

The coolest logo:

 

[chico enrico]

The coolest logo:

yes. that is a truly incredible logo.

wasn't the one for 'arena' in the 70s similar? with the logo in a bottle, kind of reflected on the water? or am i just remembering that completely wrong.

 

[idioteque]

Poor old Tone, I used to watch him all the time when I was little.

 

[Artaxerxes]

There were plenty of young twats on TV in the 80s too, it wasn't all Hart and Ball.

True, Byker Grove for example...

 

[silver]

Thats so sad for him

I had my picture in the Hart Beat gallery when I was a kid, I got a book voucher

 

[seeformiles]

Poor Fella. I sent him loads of pictures when he was on "Vision On" - never used any (but then again I am rubbish at drawing)

 

[Maggot]

Yes. Like Johnny Morris.

Now it's all folk who look like backing dancers for Cher who get caught snorting coke in Soho House or having their balls slapped by Sophie Strict.

I don't care what today's kids presenters do in their private life, it's just the programme makers seem to think that the kids can't relate to anyone over 25.

 

[aylee]

Now it's all folk who look like backing dancers for Cher who get caught snorting coke in Soho House or having their balls slapped by Sophie Strict.

I'm pretty sure that our former kids' TV presenters were no angels either .... it's just that their private lives weren't treated as fair game to anything like the same extent as is the case today. Blue Peter must have been a racy programme to be on .... John Noakes became an alcoholic and Valerie Singleton recently admitted that she knobbed the magnificently-named Peter Purves.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

now he's going to have to become a performance artist like me

indeed, though I'm not sure if having 2 severe strokes is quite as bad as that . . .

 

[vauxhallmum]

I heart Tony Hart


My sister in law was Sue-with-the-tortoise in Vision On.

Total claim to fame