Derek Jameson
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Derek Jameson (born 1929), a journalist and broadcaster, whose abrasive persona, combined with a near total disregard for common courtesy, appears to have struck a chord in people of a similar persuasion. Private Eye gave him the soubriquet of 'Sid Yobbo'.
His career began in Fleet Street in London, as a messenger boy, before becoming managing editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and Editor of the Daily Express, Daily Star and News of the World.
Jameson brought an action against the BBC over a 1980 sketch on Radio4's Week Ending which described him as an "East End boy made bad": Jameson lost the action when it came to court in 1984;David Hooper (2000) Reputatations Under Fire: Winners and Loserslon the Libel Business, Little Brown, p234-41 the jury found the broadcast defamatory, but also fair comment and Jameson had to pay costs.
He joined BBC Radio 2 in late 1985, sitting in for Jimmy Young, before taking over the Breakfast show from Ken Bruce in March 1986. In 1989 he began presenting to BBC1 Nationwide show 'People'. The theme song went:
- Where did your friend go last year?
- What did she whisper in his ear?
- People like you
- People we like to meet who
- Once in a while
- Will smile
- And tell the story of their lives
- To people like you
- People like me
- People like you.
He remained on Breakfast until December 1991, before taking over the Monday - Thursday late night show from 10.30-midnight, along with his wife Ellen. They remained here until March 1997, when they retired from broadcasting. Their show was taken over by Richard Allinson.At present, Derek is busy on the after-dinner circuit & also writes a weekly column in the Brighton Argus.
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