I was never quite sure, as a teen, what exactly Ted Moult was famous for to get the Everest gig. He was clearly picked as some sort of minor celeb/well known face, but does anyone know what for?
28 February 2017
Bobby svarc
He was a farmer who made it rich by luck, had a farm in Derbyshire . He was an early day Adam Whatsisface off Country file, he became a radio star on the back of being a loser in the final of Brain of Britain. We actually had the twat to open our carnival one year, he went downhill then, of course.
A lazy greedy farmer, if Wikipedia’s comments on his strawberries are to be believed. The second person to be seen on Channel 4 (after Richard Whiteley).
28 February 2017
this leaden paul
“You only fit double-glazing once” – that’s right kids, people really did used to think that.
28 February 2017
dirk hofman
Let her go, Reg. Appeared in panto in Manchester 84/85, alongside other acting luminaries such as John Noakes, Matthew Kelly and others. He threw himself into the theatre life and was last seen in Manchester on the dancefloor of a club (under the arches down past the Ritz on Whitworth Street),making the right shapes to YMCA with his new white vested, moustachioed friends ..
28 February 2017
Brumbiscuit
What’s the similarity between Everest Double Glazing and Ted Moult?
They both have hardwood surrounds.
That the one, Bobby? I do have another, more visual one, up my sleeve.
Our Ted, it has to be said, was someone drafted in whenever ITV needed a ‘personality’ farmer to front an item on agriculture on the Midlands news bulletin. He had a ruddy faced, amiable countenance and a 12-bore, which he used to final effect in early September 1986.
28 February 2017
Brumbiscuit
…And for reasons I find hard to clarify, I have a signed copy of his autobiography.
28 February 2017
jodrell banksy
The thinking man’s Farmer Wink?
28 February 2017
BOBBY SVARC
@Brum: No, it was a visual joke. I’ll try and explain it the best I can. My mate came up to me in the pub and started to mime something, I said “Eh?” he mimes again, I say “What?”, He then opens an imaginary window and shouts “Ted Moult’s dead”…..It was funny after 5 pints of Bass
28 February 2017
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Didn’t get much use out of his season ticket…
28 February 2017
dickhead in quicksand
You only fit double-glazing once.
That’s what I keep telling the buggers from Everest who cold-call me twice a year. I accept that they have a shit job, but it is hard to stay civil.
I did manage it once, when this guy was trying to sell me a conservatory. After 15 minutes, he had his paperwork and fountain pen at the ready. I then asked, Would it be any problem that I live on the 5th floor?
3 March 2017
cream cheese and chives
While reading through my old and painfully embarrassing diaries , I find that around Christmas 1983 I served him while I was working in Lewis’s record department in Manchester. This encounter will not be enough to secure me a publishing deal I fear.I remember that I was threatened with the sack for playing Billy Bragg’s Life’s A Riot on repeat. ‘We are trying to sell records, not drive people out of the shop,’ was the general drift. I see that according to Wikipedia he took his own life because he was worried after a spell of wet weather. I also came across this recently. https://www.tanhillinn.com/wanted-the-return-of-ted-moult-the-everest-feather/
3 April 2020
IDIOT SAUL
Our Ted, it has to be said, presented me with a cup for winning a volleyball tournament in Chesterfield. It would have been about 1976.
3 April 2020
BOBBY SVARC
Pest control’s addictive, make it self-inflicted, Blow out your brains as advertised by Ted Moult
3 April 2020
Marblearchie
Or was it this…
What’s the difference between Ted and a pint of Guinness?
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
I was never quite sure, as a teen, what exactly Ted Moult was famous for to get the Everest gig. He was clearly picked as some sort of minor celeb/well known face, but does anyone know what for?
28 February 2017
Bobby svarc
He was a farmer who made it rich by luck, had a farm in Derbyshire . He was an early day Adam Whatsisface off Country file, he became a radio star on the back of being a loser in the final of Brain of Britain. We actually had the twat to open our carnival one year, he went downhill then, of course.
28 February 2017
Bobby svarc
Also, the butt of a funny joke after his death.
28 February 2017
Maf daniel
2 for 1 tickets for the Worthing gig on Ticketmaster’s Pancake Day flash sale today. Get ’em while they’re hot! http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/half-man-half-biscuit-worthing-17-03-2017/event/3700513CDB13E8BF?tm_link=flashsale
28 February 2017
dr desperate
A lazy greedy farmer, if Wikipedia’s comments on his strawberries are to be believed.
The second person to be seen on Channel 4 (after Richard Whiteley).
28 February 2017
this leaden paul
“You only fit double-glazing once” – that’s right kids, people really did used to think that.
28 February 2017
dirk hofman
Let her go, Reg.
Appeared in panto in Manchester 84/85, alongside other acting luminaries such as John Noakes, Matthew Kelly and others. He threw himself into the theatre life and was last seen in Manchester on the dancefloor of a club (under the arches down past the Ritz on Whitworth Street),making the right shapes to YMCA with his new white vested, moustachioed friends ..
28 February 2017
Brumbiscuit
What’s the similarity between Everest Double Glazing and Ted Moult?
They both have hardwood surrounds.
That the one, Bobby? I do have another, more visual one, up my sleeve.
Our Ted, it has to be said, was someone drafted in whenever ITV needed a ‘personality’ farmer to front an item on agriculture on the Midlands news bulletin. He had a ruddy faced, amiable countenance and a 12-bore, which he used to final effect in early September 1986.
28 February 2017
Brumbiscuit
…And for reasons I find hard to clarify, I have a signed copy of his autobiography.
28 February 2017
jodrell banksy
The thinking man’s Farmer Wink?
28 February 2017
BOBBY SVARC
@Brum: No, it was a visual joke. I’ll try and explain it the best I can. My mate came up to me in the pub and started to mime something, I said “Eh?” he mimes again, I say “What?”, He then opens an imaginary window and shouts “Ted Moult’s dead”…..It was funny after 5 pints of Bass
28 February 2017
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Didn’t get much use out of his season ticket…
28 February 2017
dickhead in quicksand
You only fit double-glazing once.
That’s what I keep telling the buggers from Everest who cold-call me twice a year. I accept that they have a shit job, but it is hard to stay civil.
I did manage it once, when this guy was trying to sell me a conservatory. After 15 minutes, he had his paperwork and fountain pen at the ready. I then asked, Would it be any problem that I live on the 5th floor?
3 March 2017
cream cheese and chives
While reading through my old and painfully embarrassing diaries , I find that around Christmas 1983 I served him while I was working in Lewis’s record department in Manchester. This encounter will not be enough to secure me a publishing deal I fear.I remember that I was threatened with the sack for playing Billy Bragg’s Life’s A Riot on repeat. ‘We are trying to sell records, not drive people out of the shop,’ was the general drift.
I see that according to Wikipedia he took his own life because he was worried after a spell of wet weather.
I also came across this recently.
https://www.tanhillinn.com/wanted-the-return-of-ted-moult-the-everest-feather/
3 April 2020
IDIOT SAUL
Our Ted, it has to be said, presented me with a cup for winning a volleyball tournament in Chesterfield. It would have been about 1976.
3 April 2020
BOBBY SVARC
Pest control’s addictive, make it self-inflicted, Blow out your brains as advertised by Ted Moult
3 April 2020
Marblearchie
Or was it this…
What’s the difference between Ted and a pint of Guinness?
You can’t blow the head off a pint of Guinness.
26 June 2022