In September 2001, he paid £20,000 at Sotheby's Football Memorabilia auction in London for the FA Cup winner's medal awarded to Sir Stanley Matthews in 1953. "Mortgage Strategy" magazine, issue of 12 February 2007, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "TV star Nick Hancock delighted by move to Shrewsbury", "Sir Stanley Matthews FA Cup medal sells for £220,000", "Nick Hancock interview on 6 Towns Radio - Stoke City League Cup", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick_Hancock&oldid=964426148, Articles lacking reliable references from October 2018, BLP articles lacking sources from October 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 June 2020, at 12:30. He also formerly presented Room 101 (1994–1999) on TV, as well as its earlier radio version (1992–1994).. Photo by Sean Glackin is a twitpic. Hancock won the game. He rented out the south London flat he used for work and moved full-time back to his home town of Stoke-on-Trent. In 2012 he became the host of a new BBC Two show, Breakaway, which began on 12 March. He appeared in a celebrity special edition of the ITV1 gameshow The Chase in 2011. Mr Hancock was able to bounce back and get back to work after only a … The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Read his Telegraph obituary. ‘It’s been wonderful – I haven’t had to skip an episode of Neighbours for years. In 2007 it was announced that Hancock would host a new show on ITV1 in 2008 called Duel. The Transport Secretary will have to self-isolate for 14 days when he returns home after ministers closed the travel corridor with Spain on Saturday. But for the next month or so he’ll be back on our screens, hosting BBC2 daytime quiz show Breakaway. But I’d get so much stick from my mates if I ever used it.’. For the next month or so Nick will be back on our screens, hosting BBC2 daytime quiz show Breakaway. I know proper actors say it’s a different performance every night, but for amateurs like me it felt like packing boxes after three months.’, He would still like to do the odd stand-up night but admits the thought terrifies him. But he’s not been tempted to dye it, despite the wishes of his children. ‘I now know you should be careful what you wish for – enjoy work when you’re getting lots of it and see things through when you’re not.’, He once admitted he’d worked on some ‘awful old tat’ as a game-show host after deciding to come back to TV, but he insists Breakaway is different. It was an eventful final day of the season and Oliver Brown thinks the Premier League has justified its post-lockdown return with a final day not short of emotion and drama. Hancock enjoyed hosting They Think It's All Over, especially when guests got in hot water: "Chris Eubank was slagging off Kiwi rugby star Jonah Lomu, who's 6 ft 5 in and about 18½ stone. One of Hancock's earliest TV breaks was presenting La Triviatta, a comedy/chat show about trivia for the shortlived station British Satellite Broadcasting. He hosted the sports quiz They Think It's All Over for 10 years. When a friend needed a new comedy partner he became a regular on the stand-up circuit. I wouldn’t trust myself not to say something extremely controversial or upsetting.’, So he’s hoping Breakaway will be his big comeback, even if it does mean a bit of time commuting from Stoke and missing the odd episode of Neighbours? Monday morning news briefing: Hancock tells nation to lose 5lbs Your morning guide: Government launches bid to get nation to lose weight to fight Covid-19 … The couple declared their love after three months, their friends have disclosed, and planned their long-term future together not long afterwards. Nick Hancock, Actor: Cashback. I missed the collaborative process of working with people and creating something.’. ‘Room 101 is an intense experience because it’s just you and the guest; you can’t share the burden like you can when there are more of you,’ he recalls. "[citation needed]. Sloths are a lot livelier than you think, says the woman behind a TV show that will... Scandi-mania! But my kids were young and I wasn’t sure it was fair on them to be in the spotlight because they had a father on TV. I’m a terrible old fogey. asks MELANIE MCDONAGH. I lasted there a long time, for me, but I missed working in television. Refund crackdown | Airline regulators are expected to this week launch a crackdown on carriers which have failed to refund families for flights cancelled due to coronavirus, as the industry reels from new restrictions over Spain. In 2009 he became the host of a daytime cookery competition series, Taste the Nation, on ITV1. One easy way, of course, to get back a level of fame is to go on a show like Strictly Come Dancing or I’m A Celebrity. Hancock is a lifelong supporter of Stoke City. 'Some friends had a mortgage-broking company and they asked me to come and work with them. Taking a sabbatical from show business, from 2005 he began working for a friend's mortgage brokerage. These three were later released on a one-disc DVD. 'The sweetest tone I ever heard' | Revered for his blues virtuosity, guitarist and vocalist Peter Green founded Fleetwood Mac and wrote a string of hits, making the band outsell the Beatles and Rolling Stones combined in 1969. 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