If you were a child growing up in the Plymouth area from the 1960s until the early 1990s, there’s a chance you might have asked this infamous puppet to help celebrate your birthday. Gus manifested during the latter days of the Westward franchise, continued throughout the TSW years, and was finally put out to pasture before the handover to the wretched Westcountry in the early nineties. To my generation, he is a true legend. Scene At 6.30 (Scene) 1 9 6 3 - 1 9 6 8 (UK) Unheralded by advance publicity, a new and vital ITV programme… His move to Plymouth came after an already successful career producing and directing programmes which have become part of the fabric of British television viewing such as The Golden Shot and Celebrity Squares. Remember the days when you saw the person introducing the program you were about to watch? It used to be common on TV but these days it’s as rare as a penny-farthing bicycle.

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Across the South West, he’s bunny hopped and helped a whole generation (or two) celebrate their birthday in style. Paul had also directed The Eamonn Andrews Show and What’s My Line, so, having established a connection to Andrews, he was invited to join the production team on This is Your Life. Both puppets, along with a large collection of film and tape assets, were transferred to the South West Film and Television Archive (now part of The Box) from TSW when it lost the franchise in 1992. The Gender Recognition Act 2004, which came into effect in 2005, gave trans people full legal recognition of their gender, allowing them to acquire a new birth certificate (although gender options are limited to ‘male’ or ‘female’).

Gus Honeybun was so identified with regional television in the south-west that when TSW's managing director Harry Turner presented the station's ITV franchise renewal in 1991 he took Gus with him. [1] However, Gus's Magic Birthdays series and his career at the station were ended at the start of 1993, when Westcountry Television took over from TSW after winning the franchise. For a lot of the other ITV regions, success meant getting big programmes made and broadcast across the network. Due to its small size and dedication to local programmes, Westward and TSW made a point of focusing mainly on their area. QuoteGus manifested during the latter days of the Westward franchise, continued throughout the TSW years, and was finally put out to pasture before the handover to the wretched Westcountry in the early nineties. Giddy Game Show, The 1 9 8 5 - 1 9 8 7 (UK) 52 x 10 minute episodes "Giddy's ready". "Gorilla's ready". "Gus is…

Gus Honeybun would send coded messages to the LGBT+ community

He would appear with a presenter who read out a series of birthday cards sent in by the public on behalf of their children. Gus would give a bunny hop for each year of the child’s life. His repertoire was also expanded to include winks, head stands, ear waggles and hitting a ‘magic button’ which changed the image on the screen behind him. In 2004 the Civil Partnership Act 2004 allowed same-sex couples to legally enter into binding partnerships. Roger Ollerearnshaw met Vivianne (nee Linfoot) in 1957 at the weekly Saturday hop at The Winter Gardens, on Penzance Promenade.It was a place to meet each other, it became a safe space. Cruising is one of those uncomfortable elements of gay life and gay culture, if you tell people something is shameful and secretive, people have to respond to that. If you won't allow people to define themselves and use the words they'd use, you're denying them their own identity and opportunity for the LGBT community in Plymouth to start feeling like a community," Dr Butler said. This weekend, we wrote about a radical bookshop, In Other Words, which shaped LGBT+ history, and one of the owners actually used to operate the adorable rabbit. When Westcountry Television took over from TSW on 1 January 1993, Stirling went freelance but did present a thrice-weekly Soap Review for the station's evening news magazine Westcountry Live and was involved in a number of regional programmes for the station. He presented a four-part series entitled 40 Years of ITV in 2001, celebrating 40 years of ITV regional broadcasting in the South-West of England. Whilst freelance, he also worked for Gemini Radio in Exeter during the mid-1990s. [4] He retired in 2003 and moved to northern France. Among these was his former co-presenter, David 'Fitz' Fitzgerald, now a presenter for BBC Radio Devon.