Television
Stringfellow first appeared on television as a warm-up act on Ready Steady Go! in 1964. He has contributed to numerous programs, both radio and television, over the last 50 years and been featured in numerous national newspapers and magazines. He appeared on the celebrity edition of Come Dine with Me, with the first broadcast on September 17, 2008. He was also put in the "reasonably priced car" in season 15 episode 1 of Top Gear, which was broadcast on June 27, 2010.
He has declined offers to appear on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Celebrity Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)