Richard Gere threatened to bring his lawyers down on a British TV chat show unless they removed the words “sex symbol” from his introduction. Veteran British TV chat show host Michael Aspel was this ...

Richard Gere’s breakout role in 1980’s “American Gigolo” might have made him a household name, but that didn’t mean the actor wanted to be labeled a “sex symbol,” according to veteran British talk ...

When Michael Aspel joined BBC Television in 1957, strict Reithian morals pervaded the Corporation, although the first director-general had long since moved on. The diktat on dress codes meant that the ...

He was dubbed the luckiest man on television for hosting Miss World for 14 years – but BBC bosses once hired a bodyguard for Michael Aspel amid fears that anarchists had hatched a plot to abduct him ...

Michael Aspel says he “fell on his sword” when he realised BBC bosses thought he was getting too old to front Antiques Roadshow. The television icon, 91, was the host of the popular series for eight ...

TV presenter Michael Aspel has returned to the shop floor in Cardiff where he started his working life. Aspel began as an assistant in soft furnishings at the city's David Morgan department store in ...

Michael Aspel has a good memory for names. Mary Peach, he recalls, was the most beautiful girl in Chard, Somerset, when Aspel lived there as a young evacuee in the 1940s. Years later, when a ...

He was once one of the kings on primetime TV. But Michael Aspel says the only time his phone rings now is when he’s asked to give tributes to a showbiz friend who has passed away. The presenter and ...

I was born to poor, working class parents and there was no love lost between dad and me. I felt I couldn't share anything with him. What surprises me most is that I probably had a better business ...