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- Derek Jameson was born on November 29, 1929 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Scoop (1981), I've Got a Secret (1984) and Do They Mean Us? (1984). He was married to Ellen Jameson, Pauline Tomlin and Jacqueline Sinclair. He died on September 12, 2012 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK.
- SpousesEllen Jameson(1988 - September 12, 2012) (his death)Pauline Tomlin(1971 - 1978) (divorced, 2 children)Jacqueline Sinclair(1947 - 1961) (divorced, 2 children)
- Cockney accent with traces of Manchester
- Catchphrase: "Morning, morning, Jameson here."
- The Guild of Toastmasters named him "Least boring speaker in Britain".
- He had a popular breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 from 1986 to 1991 (deputising for Jimmy Young) and he then went on to present a chat show for six years with his wife Ellen, establishing the largest late night radio audience in Europe.
- He began work in Fleet Street as a messenger boy at the age of 14 and rose through the ranks to become managing editor of the "Daily Mirror" and Editor of the "Daily Express", "Daily Star" and "News of the World".
- He was known for his distinctive gravelly voice. When he rang directory inquiries on one occasion, the operator asked, "Is that Derek Jameson?".
- The British satirical magazine "Private Eye" invariably referred to him by the unflattering nickname of "Sid Yobbo", and its long-term editor Richard Ingrams called him "one of my favorite characters from fiction". It was the magazine's contention that Jameson exaggerated his working-class origins and cockney accent to make himself seem an ordinary, affable every-man type rather than the highly sophisticated, influential and ruthless media manipulator they claimed he actually was.
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