a skiing holiday.” Bowen used to own a disused railway station “Congratulations,” Bowen reportedly said as the screen was lifted. The prizes were switched, the dart thrown and the contestant won. “We’ll swap it for next week’s star prize,” the producer said. “They had just realised that the prize was a leather three-piece suite and thought it would not be appreciated by someone in a wheelchair,” writes Mason. Just as he was about to throw his final dart, the producer screamed “Stop him!” in the ear of Bowen. He had a humorous mishap with a disabled contestant on BullseyeĪccording to one anecdote in the book Question Time: A Journey Round Britain’s Quizzes by Mark Mason, during one episode of Bullseye, a contestant in a wheelchair was going to win the star prize. Bowen even paid for the production of the single himself, saying: “it was a bargain basement deal which cost me £4,000, but I don't think it'll be downloaded enough to pay that back”. The single had three versions, the “normal version, one with me rapping and then an acid jazz version”, he told the website. After failing all but one of his O-levels, he worked as a binman for six months before successfully re-sitting the exams.
They were excellent parents.” He was a schoolteacher for ten years before turning to comedyīowen attended Accrington Grammar school, but did not excel at his studies. “He never showed much emotion - but my mum was the opposite. He kept himself to himself and did not like to talk about his experiences. Jim said: “My dad had been in the First World War and had seen all the carnage in Belgium. His adoptive parents, Joe and Annie Whittaker, were “excellent”. I did not want to uncover a bag of worms,” he said. Some people have a mid-life crisis and want to find their parents but I never had that crisis. You do not know what grief you are uncovering. He told the Lancashire Telegraph in 2015: “All I know is that my mother, whoever she was, could not keep me.” He was adoptedīowen was adopted at nine months from a Wirral orphanage in 1937. Here's five little known facts about the man. “But that was 31 years ago when not every household had a toaster. The nice thing about us was they were excited if they won a toaster.” The show’s prizes were “celebrated for being inappropriate - a couple from a tower block in Walsall won a speedboat - or undesirable - an alarm clock for every room,” says the Daily Mirror.īowen told the paper in an interview in 2016: “Game shows today are too high-tech with a £1 million prize. The Lancastrian comic became a household name in 1981 with the Sunday tea time show, which ran for 14 years and attracted “17.5 million viewers at its peak”, says the BBC.īowen became known for catchphrases including “Super, smashing, great”, “You can't beat a bit of Bully!” and “Let's look at what you could have won”. Broadcaster and comedian Jim Bowen, best known for hosting darts-based game show Bullseye in the 1980s and '90s, has died at the age of 80.īowen's agent, Patsy Martin, confirmed the news, saying: “I will very sadly miss Jim.
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