‘Rent-a-Personality’ people who were always on TV

People who were always on panel shows, chat shows, quiz shows and the like but weren’t the main hosts

Bob Mills

Paul Ross

Janet Street-Porter

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Whatever happened to Roland Rivron?

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Jack Dee

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Exactly what I’m after!

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Whatever happened to those I :heart: the 90s shows with Stewart Maconie, Terry Christian and the like?

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There’s still plenty of shite like that on channel 5.
“1985’s Top 100 Eastenders Moments”

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Seem to recall Rhona Cameron being omnipresent on chatting breakfast type shows around late nineties/early 00s.

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There was a point in the mid-90s when Richard Littlejohn and Garry Bushell were doing a lot of guest appearances on things.

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In Bed With MeDinner was genuinely great and very much not muggy bonehead.

Almost included Bushell in my opening post but didn’t want to remind anyone of him

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She does a show on Greatest Hits which is on at work and she might be the most irritating person alive


Gina Yashere seemed to be everywhere for a couple of years

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tony slattery (rip)

In the words of half man half biscuit:
Mariella Frostrup does loads of voiceovers but nothing much else yet she seems to get by

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Think the stalking knocked a lot of his work on the head…

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