Jim Bowen ... is he dead?

[Cowfold Seagull]

Does anyone out there watch Challenge on a weekday evening?, early in the evening you get a couple of repeats of that famous old gameshow Bullseye,recorded about a hundred years ago, and fronted by Jim Bowen.

Stay tuned and a few hours later you are treated to two more, much more recent episodes, this time however presented by Dave 'the spike' Spikey.

What happened to Jim Bowen in the intervening years?, is he dead?.

 

[Frutos]

Still alive as far as I know.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

It'll be news to him if he is.

 

[Acker79]

He got into a bit of bother for using a politically incorrect phrase on a radio show and disappeared for a while. He then returned with a stand up show at Edinburgh Fringe in 2005, and now works for radio cumbria.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Heard him interviewed on Talksport last Thursday afternoon and they didnt say it was a seance.

 

[Questions]

He died at Butlins, Bognor Regis in August 1994. I know because I was there and it was awful.

 

[SurreySeagulls]

They asked him to return to Bullseye but he refused hence the twat that does it now. Watched a couple of episodes the other day and the prizes were fantastice. On one Bullys special prize was an electronic keyboard. Kevin 'the aritst' Painter got 380, god he looked young.

Jims' suits were just so Shawaddywaddy (sp?)

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

He died at Butlins, Bognor Regis in August 1994. I know because I was there and it was awful.

Well l wouldnt have been surprised if he had, he must be about 108 by now lol, didnt he live in a converted railway station up in the Lake District somewhere?.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Radio

In 1999, Bowen began presenting on BBC Radio Lancashire but after working there for three years, resigned after referring to a female guest on his show as a "nig-nog". He admitted that, even though he apologised for the remark almost immediately, he believed his showbusiness career was over.[3]

 

[simmo]

Has Jim Bowen been given his BFH to the sky?

 

[Man of Harveys]

My parents saw him on a cruise ship a few years ago, some time after any style icon's essential viewing Bullseye had finished. He was very funny apparently.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

My parents saw him on a cruise ship a few years ago, some time after any style icon's essential viewing Bullseye had finished. He was very funny apparently.

I would imagine that back in the day, as a Northern type stand-up, with a few risque jokes, he could have been quite good. But that time is passed, and I suspect his humour went out when the PC brigade came along - and probably rightly so.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Still going strong!

 

[Pavilionaire]

Well when he DOES die he certainly won't be buried alongside his wife because, as he used to say himself: "There's nothing in this game for two in a bed".

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Still going strong!

Thats his American twin brother Jed.