Is anyone else old enough to think John Noakes…

[CurlewKate]

…when they watch the sliding downhill very fast bits of the Winter Olympics?

Me!!! Didn't he fall off & bruise hlaf his body?! Showed it all on tv....

Didn't he say he had to wear his wife's silk knickers after coming off the bob sleigh?

i don’t know who he is other than that dh was convinced he was sat next to us at breakfast in Betty’s tea room last year and kept nudging me and nodding over towards him. Finally I googled who he was to see if I could see a resemblance to discover he died in 2017 I think. I thought Dh said he was a blue peter presenter, was he also an Olympian?!

Sliding-downhill-very-fast should definitely be the name of one of the events.

Of course! Who else?

Yes myself and H discussed it even after all these years I wince when I see the skeleton/bobsleigh/tin tray event whatever he was doing.

Yes, those bruises <shudders>

Yes - six-year-old me was very shocked he showed part of his buttock!

Ah John Noakes. I remember being shocked when I read he was married with 4 children. I thought he lived alone with Shep.

Was shep there?

shep 🥰🥰

He was blue peters action man!

No-he wasn’t an Olympian-he was a Blue Peter presenter before Health and Safety!

Yes I thought no of him whenever I see a sliding event . He was a great presenter

Haha. No, not also an Olympian! He was the daredevil one so went down the cresta run or similar for the programme

I think climbing tied together ladders to clean Nelson's Column was possibly more terrifying.

Never forgotten that one and sitting in the bosun's chair ..a bit of wood with ropes.

I have a feeling he wasn’t a dare devil and he used to get very frightened

oh gosh I remember the Nelson’s column one! 😂😂

I met him when he absailed down a building a family member was involved with
Not a nice man at all

Good to know.🤔

Oops. Screwed up my own thread!

Good to know🤔

Remember Valerie Singleton in the boat on the river?
She could have died.
BP was well dangerous back in the day.

Yes - Discussed him and his famous bobsleigh crash earlier today while watching the various ice-sliding olympic events.

Nelson's column was terrifying to watch, especially considering there was a poor cameraman up there too!

Ah, John Noakes my first childhood crush 🥰
I've had a thing for dark haired men with strong noses ever since and I love a Yorkshire accent 😁

Oh gosh he was more vet or vicar for me rather than hunk 😂😂

the pale blue shirts rolled up to the elbow - yuk!