He was Alan Partridge if Alan Partridge had been likeable, self-aware and talented.
He hosted his first chat show, The Des O’Connor Show on ITV from 1963 to 1971.
Interviewing the Spice Girls on Des O’Connor Tonight in 1997, for instance, he was neither overawed nor patronising.
He teamed up with Melanie Sykes to present Today With Des and Mel from 2002 to 2006.
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