Blue Peter: Your favourite presenter ... the men

[WhiteCrow]

In honour of Blue Peter's 50th Anniversary, I thought this would be a bit of fun. Of course I've just chosen a sample of some of the more notable ones ...

If you need your memory refreshing - try this link ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ter_presenters

[Wayne]

John Noakes. - Big balls.

[Dave Lewis]

Bloody.

[SiHart]

Peter Duncan. He Dared to be the new Noakes!

Si xx

[WhiteCrow]

I had to go for Simon Groom. You look through the list, and so many of them you have a kind of strange affection for, like a best friend you grew up with.

It's difficult to choose between John Noakes, Peter Purves, Simon Groom and Peter Duncan. But I think I was just the right age to see Simon Groom come into the spotlight, and I think I kind of waned when he left. Of course you look back now, and he was putting a lot of double entendres into what he said as well. Like a "down on the farm" Julian Clary!

[SiHart]

That's my team right there.

Si xx

[WhiteCrow]

Obviously depending on how popular this is, I'll be doing something similar for the women.

I was thinking of doing a "Last Blue Peter Presenter Standing", but that game is losing it's charm!

[Dirk Gently]

That's my team right there.

Si xx

Mine too, and as much as I liked Peter he was always a Noakes wanna-be. Noakes wins for me.

[Stuart Wallis]

Noakes. Mad as a brush and couldn't spell dessiccated coconut to save his life!

[Milky Tears]

Sundin for me.

[Lissa]

Simon Groom was brilliant. Groom, Ellis and Duncan were my first proper Blue Peter team and Simon Groom was the comfy, beige, solid, reliable one who didn't have the anarchic edge of Peter Duncan or the fragile legs of Janet Ellis. Plus - now that I'm older - I can appreciate the sheer quality of Simon Groom's double entendres. The last person to slip one in on the Blue Peter set was Peter Purves during his randy phase and even he didn't do it when the cameras were on. Groom was the daddy.

[Stuart Wallis]

Sundin for me.

There's always one!

[Stuart Wallis]

Plus - now that I'm older - I can appreciate the sheer quality of Simon Groom's double entendres.

They were things of beauty, weren't they?

(All right, there's occasionally two!)

[Si Hunt]

My era was a bit poor for Blue Peter Men. Ooh, do I choose between oddball Mark Curry, dubious John Leslie or coke-snorting Richard Bacon?

I'm frankly shocked Purves isn't winning though. I mean, come on, he's an icon! And he wouldn't still be snivelling twenty years later over a dead dog.

Si.

[Milky Tears]

There's always one!

I voted for Leslie!

[WhiteCrow]

I'm frankly shocked Purves isn't winning though. I mean, come on, he's an icon! And he wouldn't still be snivelling twenty years later over a dead dog.

Esp considering the Doctor Who connection.

I have to say though I really liked John Noakes, and he would be a good winner.

I think Richard Bacon seems to ironically been the only Blue Peter presenter to really get constant work outside BP.

[Pip Madeley]

I was going to vote for Gethin.

[Larry]

bit of a tough one as I ionly really started watching blue peter towards the end of the nokes/purvis period i don't remember to much about them Groom/duncan/curry were the main ones i remember and though they were all good my vote gose to duncan.

[Carol Baynes]

Mark Curry was the funniest- his cookery slots were jaw dropping moments of total ineptitude!

I should have voted for him, but went for Noakes, even though he'd left by the time I started watching. Groom/Ellis/Duncan is probably the team I recall fondest (although Srah Greene was with those two lads at some point).

[Ralph]

Noakes

It's a no brainer!

[Stuart Wallis]

(although Srah Greene was with those two lads at some point).

Insert own punchline here!

[Pip Madeley]

Sad to read this:

Christopher Trace, the first Blue Peter presenter, fell from grace. On a trip to Norway in 1968, he cheated on his wife with 19-year-old Tone Keri Fjalstad and had to quit the show. He was declared bankrupt in 1973 and died penniless in 1992 of throat cancer at the age of 59.

[Wayne]

That is rather sad isn't it.

[NorthernStar]

There's always one!

Make that two.

Michael Sundin was great presenter and was a breath of fresh air amid all those RP voices.

It still makes me angry to this day how they treated him.