{"id":13287,"date":"2020-11-15T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2020-11-15T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:08:58","slug":"it-seems-sad-to-relegate-des-o-connor-to-a-things-post-but-there-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13287","title":{"rendered":"It seems sad to relegate Des O&#8217; Connor to a &#8220;Things&#8221; post, but there we are."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sad news about the passing of singer, comic and entertainer Des O&#8217; Connor, in the gameshow world he most famously hosted <strong>Take Your Pick<\/strong> and <strong>Countdown<\/strong>, we also remember him for hosting mid-90s talent contest with a big jackpot <strong>Pot of Gold<\/strong>.<\/li><li><strong>I&#8217;m a Celeb <\/strong>starts its new run shooting in Wales tonight, where the weather the last few days has been, well, extremely wet. Now I think they&#8217;ve got some of the best creatives in the business so I would hope that they&#8217;ve predicted and figured everything out &#8211; I&#8217;m extremely excited to see how it plays out in a castle setting, but the celebs are only going to let themselves get so miserable before walking out surely.<\/li><li><strong>Winning Combination <\/strong>starts on ITV tomorrow at 3pm, we&#8217;ll have a Show Discussion post going up tomorrow morning.<\/li><li><strong>The Wheel<\/strong> looks like it has quite the set.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We couldn\u2019t do Big Show this year for obvious reasons so instead we made the maddest show I\u2019ve ever composed music for. Coming soon to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCOne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCOne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/michaelmcintyre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#michaelmcintyre<\/a> &#8211; The Wheel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wakhRm40AD\">pic.twitter.com\/wakhRm40AD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; P \u039b U L     F \u039b R R E R (@paulmfarrer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulmfarrer\/status\/1327753134203146241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news about the passing of singer, comic and entertainer Des O&#8217; Connor, in the gameshow world he most famously hosted Take Your Pick and Countdown, we also remember him for hosting mid-90s talent contest with a big jackpot Pot of Gold. I&#8217;m a Celeb starts its new run shooting in Wales tonight, where the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13287\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3sj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}