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Peter Duncan porn star background
chocoholic92
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I read in the Daily Star during all the "Blue Cheater" stuff that Peter Duncan was fired from Blue Peter because he had an unknown "porn star" background? Is this true and to what erm. extent? 
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he did
and it was about 25 years ago!!!
and it wasn't really porny :rolleyes:
he just sort of dropped his trollies and did a bit of fumbling
it was featured on one of those "late night programmes" some time ago.....I got all excited waiting for it....
and....that was it
another anticlimax - puh
Does anyone know what he is doing now?
He is, or was, Chief Scout!
http://www.scouts.org.uk/aboutus/media/PeterDuncan.htm
I thought he was really good on Blue Peter and Duncan Dares. I'm sure he's a brilliant asset for the Scouts. The 'news'paper is just muckraking, as usual.
Didn't he also have a small role in Dr Who at one point? Or am I confusing him with another Blue Peter presenter? Peter Purves is ringing a bell too.
On the good side. I think it commendable that his position of trust as Scout Head says much more about the people who gave him that role, and he certainly has not let those people down.
He had a part in that Flash Gordon film - he was the one who had to stick his hand in the tree stump!
Thanks for that fcat.
Funnily enough I did hear a recent radio interview with the Chief Scout (Peter Duncan) but I assumed that the person just had the same name as the former Blue Peter presenter. I'm glad that he still has a fairly high profile career and wish him well. Like you,I liked him in his television days.
I think he was also nicknamed 'Blue Peter', but only because somebody found a few dusty old tapes in a loft featuring him in action
It was called 'Funny, Peculiar'. I saw the original in London in 1975 with Richard Beckinsale and Matthew Kelly!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2036122,00.html
Read here:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2035474,00.html
It's a revelation. :eek:
Unusually, Duncan did two stints with Blue Peter, being on the team from 1980 to 1984, and again from 1985 to 1986. During his stay with the programme, he became associated with the kind of daredevil stunts previously popularised by John Noakes, and these continued in his own spin-off series, Duncan Dares. After leaving permanently in 1986, he returned to the stage, most notably in the musicals Barnum, Me and My Girl and The Card for which he was nominated for an Olivier award for Best Actor in a Musical.
i heard he is also deeply religous now so i guess if he was tempted to do another seedy film he could always insist on it being called Porn Again.
Garden rakes, buckets of water and long ladders waved about by flat-cap wearing workmen are all present and correct. Bizzarely, he has a 'leggy' retired Page 3 'burd' from the eighties pretending to be his missus.
Its VERY odd.
Additionally, Janet Ellis was not sacked in 1987 for being pregnant out of wedlock - it was entirely her decision to leave, in order to concentrate on being a full-time mother. Plus, the baby itself was not Sophie Ellis Bextor (born 1979) but her half-brother, Jackson Leach. :cool:
As for Richard Bacon...he was the first presenter to have his contract terminated in mid-run - but not the first to be fired, at all. Before him, Leila Williams (in 1962), Christopher Wenner (in 1980) and the late Michael Sundin (in 1985) were all shown the door when their contracts came up for renewal - each for different reasons.
And we all know why the late Christopher Trace (in 1967) did not get his contract renewed. :rolleyes:
did he get a blue peter badge for it?
He is chief scout until July. Bear Grylls then takes over.
I didn't know as it was before my time. I've just looked him up on Wiki and he got sacked cos his wife found out he was having an affair with a 19 yr old hotel receptionist during a BP 'culture embracing' summer expedition to Norway. Is this correct?
True.
Just wondered why this thread has been resurrected after two years? :eek: