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Date of Birth
12 October 1954, Liverpool, England, UK

Birth Name
Leslie Dennis Heseltine

Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)

Spouse
Claire Nicholson (23 November 2009 - present) 1 child
Amanda Holden (4 June 1995 - 18 November 2003) (divorced)
Lynne Heseltine (? - 1990) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

He is the third regular presenter of "Family Fortunes" (1980) after Bob Monkhouse and the second longest host since Bob Monkhouse. The last two presenters were Bob Monkhouse and Max Bygraves.

He entertained with Bobby Davro on An Audience with Cliff Richard (1999) (TV).

In May 2000, he split up with his wife Amanda Holden after seeing her spending the vacation with Neil Morrissey in a newspaper. However, after a while, they went back together, but just to see if it can work out between them, too.

Was part of a comedy due with the late Dustin Gee

- He announced that his marriage to actress Amanda Holden had ended after seven years. Speculation had been rife in the UK media that the couple's relationship was in difficulty, following Holden's failure to greet him on his eviction from the "Celebrity Big Brother" (2001) house. [December 2002]

He was a guest call taker for the phone lines of the donations to The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live (2006) (TV).

His fiancée Claire Nicholson gave birth to their first child together, daughter Eleanor Grace Heseltine on April 24th 2008 in London. She weighed 8 lbs, 11 oz.

Played "Mr. Owen", a man overcoming cancer in the 2009 short film Waiting in Rhyme (2009) (V). ITV News called the film a 15 minute masterpiece.


Where Are They Now

(January 2009) 31st January Is the MC (Master of Ceremonies) at the Ultra Blaze Scifi convention (Ipswich, England)


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