Random musings and general banter.

He wouldn’t know how to change. Nor (I suspect) would he want to. He has everything stacked against him in today’s box ticking mainstream TV world - he’s not PC and he’s a he. A beyond middle-aged white male in a suit - apparently heterosexual, and completely out of touch with how you have to behave on prime time television of today. Where would or could you place him on TV nowadays? A music hall turn on The Good Old Days? - long gone… Some old throwback in a soap opera? The seaside postcard gags peddling caretaker in Are You Being Served?? Presenting a kids’ quiz show? There are no kids’ quiz shows that I know of, and if there were, you’d need to be young, ideally black, and street cred…He is none of those things…I guess he sees shows like For The Love of Dogs etc..and wonders why he couldn’t do them? He should realise that although Paul O’Grady was a similar age, he still had a strong mainstream television profile - rather than one that ended in the 1990s..

Dirty Peter is over 70 - with a CV that shows he was last on mainstream TV, in a minor way, 40 years ago.

He has nowhere to go. The idea another channel will hire him to do his Larry Grayson act is laughable - unlike most of his filthy patter

Peter was always a minor role, I believe even his stints on Saturday Morning TV, were pre recorded, and inserted in, to allow the main presenters to have a break

I’d love to know what his actual age is? Anywhere between 60 and 90? Assuming he was about 10 or 11 on Junior Showtime, maybe early 60s, I guess? But he was he really ever on Junior Showtime really? A complete enigma.

Think he’s Mid 70s

Choosi5050 said:

Can’t stand him. I was channel hopping last night and he happened to be on. “Just buy just buy”. Does he ever - ever - finish a sentence. I wanted to scream. I always thought Ideal World was just a con selling cheap tat at exorbitant prices and a premium premium rate phone line but even at that it was just a notch above Bid. I can’t believe TJC thought it was a good idea to buy it. Mi d, they’re going down the pan faster than a you know what also. Another hugely irritating presenter was that women on Gems. Can’t remember her name but she’s been for ever. Never ever finishes a sentence either. Plump and always showing mountains of flesh and flicking her hair. I think she’s still there but I never watch anymore. They used to sell fairly good quality stuff. Last time I looked they were trying to kid everyone that very ordinary semi precious stones you’ve never heard of were actually jewels in the real sense of the word. And then there’s QVC and Ruth Langsford ……………………

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So true! It's Adina on Gems who never finishes........A sentence. What you need to remember is.....This colour reminds me of.....

We never find out what she's on about, because she never finishes a sentence - and all done whilst flicking the hair that hasn't seen a brush or comb in a month and rubbing her nose frequently. Someone give that woman a box of tissues, a hairbrush and a dress that actually fits.

Perhaps Adina and Pete could do a double act - each finishing the other one's sentences? On second thoughts, let's not bother.

Duke of Cheese said:

I’d love to know what his actual age is? Anywhere between 60 and 90? Assuming he was about 10 or 11 on Junior Showtime, maybe early 60s, I guess? But he was he really ever on Junior Showtime really? A complete enigma.

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Pretty sure early 70s.
He said one time he was older than a texter who was 69 but, as pointed out, if he says it's Sunday you check the calendar

Bernie100 said:

That Sally Jacks one is always plugging her social media on Ideal World and going on and on about all her fans and followers. Just had a look, on social media, Cristiano Ronaldo = 1 billion followers, Taylor Swift = 550 million followers, Sally Jacks = 11 thousand.

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I think you've added the word 'thousand' by mistake after Screeching Sal's name.

If she'd been around during WW2 they wouldn't have needed air raid sirens.

Duke of Cheese said:

Neither could get anywhere near mainstream television with their out of date repartees. They perform in an environment with no effective editorial control, saying what they like in terms of their away from the goods patter. With both - hearing it takes you back 50 plus years to a time when Three Irish Fellas Went into a Pub....gags, sexist jokes, making yourself a spoken and misplaced object of desire for the 'TARTS', and filthy double entendres in general were still embraced by mainstream television companies. Not any longer. And that's why they are where they are, and not where
at least one of them still believes he should be.

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Mike Of The Masons was having an imaginary conversation with himself last night using a battery tester as a prop phone.
I was doing something else at the time, so not really paying much attention, but recall him saying something about how the big bald beautiful fellow deserved a slot on prime time ITV Saturday night.

I think it’s actually in his interest to make himself older than he is based upon the older persons focused products he is often having to hawk. If you believe what he tells you, you would suspect he was in his mid-70s. But I’m sure he is a similar age to me and that is early 60s. If you look at footage of him from the mid to late ‘80s, he looks around mid-20s -certainly not into his mid 30s. But as has been said before - who knows for sure.

HughTwo said:

Pretty sure early 70s.
He said one time he was older than a texter who was 69 but, as pointed out, if he says it's Sunday you check the calendar

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Like all the other stories he spins his age is flexible. He lives in one room, a flat, a broken-down cottage with leaky roof (heated only by 300 IW radiators that you can buy for about half the price elsewhere), he lives with Our Bet, he lives alone, he's poor but rich enough to buy everything that appears on IW, his health is failing, his knees are giving out, but he's in perfect health, thanks to the exercise equipment he buys from IW. His life's just an open book really.

Peter is the opposite to Sally.

Peter is very secretive, while Sally lets everybody know everything

Secretive in the sense the real truth is rarely if ever revealed. He is actually free-flowing with personal information as part of his sales techniques. Extremely open, in fact. It’s just unfortunate it’s the details of somebody created, and you suspect world’s away from his own.

Real truth is, he probably heads back to the hotel, and has the most expensive thing on the menu

Yes, Dirty Pedro's stories change to suit the product.
He goes from buying expensive watches to huddling under blankets in his draughty, damp hovel.

It's like piecing together clues to get a small segment of the truth.
His collagen tripe about the surgeon praising his skin tells us, as we all suspected, he had cosmetic surgery and not a collision with patio doors

Face lifted? To match very nicely with his material.

that promo Sally does, about Christmas Gifts, I’m sure it’s AI

HughTwo said:

Yes, Dirty Pedro's stories change to suit the product.
He goes from buying expensive watches to huddling under blankets in his draughty, damp hovel.

It's like piecing together clues to get a small segment of the truth.
His collagen tripe about the surgeon praising his skin tells us, as we all suspected, he had cosmetic surgery and not a collision with patio doors

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Indeed. What we know for sure is he’s been on shopping television for about 24 years or so - although he says 40 years, which you would suspect is incorrect, with QVC being launched in the early 1990s being the first long-term survivor to launch. And he wasn’t on that, ever.

We also know he did the BBC children’s show Going Live! back in the late ‘80s and had a quiz as part of it. Plus Run the Risk a few years later on with Shane Richie. We also know he was Ronald McDonald for McDonald’s in the earlier 1980s. The rest of his mainstream TV career, I cannot be sure on, as I have no recall of it. Wikipedia mentions ITV’s Junior Showtime as his first TV role. I remember the show and people like the presenter, Bobby Bennett, Mark Curry, Lonnie Bangford, and other regulars like The Poole Family, but I certainly have no recall of him in any prominent role. That said, he could well have appeared as is stated. I just don’t remember him. He certainly wasn’t on Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, as I am sure I have heard him mention he was at times.

We also know he has a Labrador and lives in what looks like a decent sized property going by the buy a video message site he and others offer their services on.

Other than the above…for me, everything else is either clearly inaccurate, wildly variable and essentially deeply unproven.

Jazzydrury said:

Peter hasn’t tried reinventing himself.

Andi Peters had to reinvent himself, He was producing the O Zone, while still presenting live and kicking, so when he left that he had options, I believe he owns the production company who does the ITV Competitions, and Masterchef got him his QVC Gig

Peter Simon When he left Live and Kicking didn’t move on, and is now just a pervy act on a shopping channel.

I am surprised he isn’t turning Sally’s Christmas Lights on though

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Yeah, after his heyday Andi Peters went behind the scenes in kids TV, which was smart - he had a lot of experience.

He was involved in a lot of T4 (Channel 4's 'yoof' strand on weekends back in the 90s/00s) programmes, including a few that ended up being adapted/sold to US networks. He did very well for himself tbh, and I imagine he does QVC because he wants to, not needs to. Probably enjoys live TV, and beyond news, sports, and ITV morning shows, there's not a lot of opportunity for live presenting work these days.

Jazzydrury said:

Peter was always a minor role, I believe even his stints on Saturday Morning TV, were pre recorded, and inserted in, to allow the main presenters to have a break

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This - so much this.

People talk about Pedro's Children's TV career as if he was… well, Andi Peters!

But my only recollection of him is from Run the Risk as the 'joke' cleaner who came on half-way through to be the punchline for a gag made by the main presenter (Shane Ritchie).

That was it for me. The bloke from Bodger and Badger has more cultural claim-to-fame!

According to IMDB, on Going Live! he was only in a couple of pre-recorded sketches, not the star of the programme.

He did present Double Dare but I never saw that. If it was a major massive cultural touchstone that a generation of UK kids love, I'm yet to hear about it.

Otherwise, isn't his career just selly telly? And coming 3rd (out of 2 contestants) in the 1992 Larry Grayson impersonation contest at Pontins (made that last bit up, but it's believable).

So to hear him introduce himself on IW during as BAFTA award-winning, implies he was 'not only of the Blue Peter, not only the face of Children's TV', he was asked to do Strictly but replaced at a late stage by Allison Hammond, bags about staying with A-list stars in Hollywood…

I mean: he must be smoking that emu oil

Peter Simon on mainstream TV…