Personal Life
Aspel has been married three times and has seven children. He married Dian Sessions in 1957 and they had two children and divorced in 1961. Aspel married Anne Reed, a TV scriptwriter, in 1962 and they had twin children and divorced in 1967. Aspel married actress Elizabeth Power, best known for her role in EastEnders but left her for Irene Clarke, a production assistant on This Is Your Life.
As a supporter of the charity Cancer Research UK he was made a Freeman of the Borough of Elmbridge, Surrey in April 2008.
A 2004 article in The Independent reported that Aspel had a dormant case of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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