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Frank Bough (born Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England, January 15th 1933) is a British television presenter who specialised in sports programmes.
Career
Bough was educated at Merton College, Oxford, reputedly being one of the last generation of undergraduates to be awarded a fourth class degree. He played football for the university against Cambridge, and carried out his national service in the Royal Tank Regiment. He married Nesta Howells (grand-niece of Rees Howells) after leaving the army in 1959. They have three children.
He joined the BBC as an anchorman and reporter and in 1964 he began presenting the BBC Sports Review of the Year, which he would host for eighteen years. He also presented Sportsview, and in 1968 the BBCs flagship Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand. He went on to present the early evening news programme, Nationwide.
In 1977 Bough was memorably a guest on the Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, performing a song and dance routine in top hat and tails with the likes of Eddie Waring and Michael Parkinson, among others. The programme's recorded audience figures remain a British record.
He was a roving holidaymaker in the BBC's Holiday programme; and made history as the first presenter of the BBC's inaugural breakfast television programme, Breakfast Time with Selina Scott.
In the early 1990s he was a presenter on London's LBC radio, staying on for the launch of London News Talk and moving to the News 97.3 service where he remained until 1996.
Private Life
Bough had a colourful private life which involved taking cocaine and wearing lingerie. The cocaine allegations almost completely ended his television career, although he did briefly return to present ITV's coverage of the 1991 rugby World Cup.
Bough, a supporter of Sunderland football club, had a liver transplant in 2001 after Cancer was found. His name has entered Cockney rhyming slang: "I'm Frank Bough" meaning "I'm off".
He now lives in quiet retirement in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
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