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RIP Cheggers

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  • #2
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    It's not real until Limmy tweets that he met him at a charity do once. :(


  • #3
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    I just saw that; seems like a genuinely nice and funny guy and well able to laugh at himself.

    His appearance in Extras is a classic.


  • #4
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,633 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    seamus wrote: »
    Keith Chegwin has died: https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/1211/926566-tv-star-keith-chegwin-has-died-aged-60/

    He seemed like he was on everything during the 80s and early 90s.

    Yes, I think it's what killed him in the end.


  • #5
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Remember him mostly from The Big Breakfast and on it he use knock into people's houses as a surprise in the mornings. RIP


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    RIP.

    In more recent times, it was great to see him get decent work in Extras and Life's Too Short.



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  • #7
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I remember him in the BBC show with the big bird in it. what was it again?

    Oh yeah, Sarah Greene. :P

    RIP Cheggers


  • #8
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    thats too bad, he was a nice guy. Battled hard with the booze too.


  • #9
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    R.I.P Cheggers.


  • #10
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/940242037152108544


  • #11
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,549 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    His career never really recovered after he hosted that all-nude gameshow for Channel 4 :eek:

    (not making this up!)

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



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  • #12
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    I'll always remember Cheggers Plays God

    tvgohome060899.jpg


  • #13
    neirbloom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭neirbloom


    https://twitter.com/keithchegwin/status/913455518173339648

    His last tweet


    RIP. Had himself kind of a resurgence with life is Short and Extras which he was so funny in and as many have pointed out already showed up so often on the telly in the 80s and 90s.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    an icon of my childhood.

    his interview on the Viz documentary, about how it ruined his life after it printed a story about him having no talent was pure class.


  • #15
    BelovedAunt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭BelovedAunt


    Ah ****e, I was only watching him in Extras yesterday.


  • #16
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    ''Pop Knob in Fanny''

    For me this was one of the best scenes in Extras and Keith played a stormer in that episode.

    RIP.


  • #17
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Cheggers Goes Pop! :o


  • #18
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,694 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    B0jangles wrote: »
    His appearance in Extras is a classic.

    I loved that one.

    Had only watched the outtakes of the "pop knob in fanny" scene yesterday :(



    RIP Cheggers


  • #19
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    First saw Keith on Swap Shop many moons ago.

    Always came across as a genuinely nice fella.

    Sorry to hear that.


  • #20
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    this was a Saturday morning staple for me

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvI4p6ncqk


  • #21
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,549 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    01 - 811 8055

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



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  • #22
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Remember him well on Swap Shop and Cheggers Plays Pop as a kid.

    Read a funny story online today about him :pac:

    "A few years ago I had the pleasure of attending a quiz night hosted by Keith Chegwin. At the end he was good enough to sign some autographs. I thought it would be a giggle to show the chaps at work so I went up. Keith was very smiley and asked what my name was. I responded and went back to my seat, autograph in hand. When I sat down and read it, it just said:

    To Mike, Get fcuked, Love Cheggers'"


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