Jeremy Beadle was born in Hackney, East London, in 1948, the product of an extra-marital affair. His father, a Fleet Street sports reporter, left before he was born and Beadle made no effort to get in ...

Richard was born lopsided with a birth defect called Poland Syndrome, which caused his left hand and chest to be underdeveloped. He’s done what Jeremy Beadle didn’t, a whole show about having one ...