He was an integral part of the golden age of children’s television.
Born in Walton, Liverpool in 1957, Chegwin began his showbiz career at an early age.
He made also numerous appearances in panto and on Reality TV shows, including Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity MasterChef, Celebrity Chase and Celebrity Pointless.
In 2013, I interviewed Keith Chegwin, who has died at the age of 60, on the set of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s BBC2 “mock-umentary”, Life’s Too Short.