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    Exclamation Who Do You Think You Are?

    21.00 hrs on BBC1.

    Dedworth ... please take note:

    Tonight's edition features Gary Lineker ... alias, "Gobby Gary" - as you're predisposed to calling the 'Match of the Day' presenter.

    Alas, most of his family photos were destroyed years ago during a flood, leaving Lineker with little to go on ... so the subject had to engage the services of a professional genealogist to undertake the research necessary for this programme.

    Skeletons in the cupboard? ...

    ... turns out one of his great-great-great grandfathers was an encorrigible poacher (albeit NOT from rural Lincolnshire as popularised in the famous English song commonly associated with that vicinity ) and had been incarcerated in Leicester Jail on numerous occasions for such midemeanors.

    Sources reveal this particular ancestor earned much notoriety in and around these parts ... not least, I suspect, on account of his rather unfortunate name (as befits his ineptitude) viz- James Pratt.

    Aye ... ... a real prat!


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    ... thoroughly enjoyed this episode I have to admit ... ... especially the bit where - on visiting the prison that had held his ancestor captive a full century and a half earlier - he was greeted with a cordial, "Hi, Gary", from the warders on duty and they then proceeded to search him.


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    Thank you Arthur, I haven't watched this episode yet so look forward to doing so on iPlayer. I really enjoy this TV programme!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    21.00 hrs on BBC1.

    Dedworth ... please take note:

    Tonight's edition features Gary Lineker ... alias, "Gobby Gary" - as you're predisposed to calling the 'Match of the Day' presenter.

    Alas, most of his family photos were destroyed years ago during a flood, leaving Lineker with little to go on ... so the subject had to engage the services of a professional genealogist to undertake the research necessary for this programme.

    Skeletons in the cupboard? ...

    ... turns out one of his great-great-great grandfathers was an encorrigible poacher (albeit NOT from rural Lincolnshire as popularised in the famous English song commonly associated with that vicinity ) and had been incarcerated in Leicester Jail on numerous occasions for such midemeanors.

    Sources reveal this particular ancestor earned much notoriety in and around these parts ... not least, I suspect, on account of his rather unfortunate name (as befits his ineptitude) viz- James Pratt.

    Aye ... ... a real prat!
    I once worked with a guy whose surname was Pratt. You would of thought his family would of changed it if only to protect his kids from the micky taking


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    Tonight's subject is Nick Hewer ... Lord Sugar's sidekick in 'The Apprentice'.

    Reckon - in his case - the question ought to be rephrased to read: ... "Hew do you think you are?"

    ... better "get cracking", it'll be due to start in about 5 minutes!


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    ... lacked the infectious enthusiasm of the previous celebrity. But, for those interested, it seems the programme's being repeated at 10.35 tonight.


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