For me it’s John Peel.
Famous Radio DJ.
Introduced me to lots of different music BUT I later discovered him to be a paedophile.
An interview originally published in The Herald in April 2004 stated that he admitted to sexual contact with “an awful lot” of underage girls. He said that, in the United States in the 1960s, the only available “pool of single, unconnected women was high school”.[32]
Rolf, can you see what it is yet, Harris. I used to think he was fantastic the way he painted most of his images with a 4" brush and also all his songs hit the spot.
Later, he was sent to prisons for sexual offences.
Some years back now I used to religiously run up to and around The Outer Circle, essentially a road that encompasses Regents Park. There and back, twice round was about six miles , a fitness thing.
I’d always run anticlockwise, a famous celebrity of the time would run clockwise, we’d pass on a regular basis and politely nod. He wasn’t smoking a big cigar and wearing hefty jewellery while running.
The rest is history.
Yes, that was a big disappointment, I remember as a child I used to love watching him.
Oh yes, another disappointment, I loved watching his show every Saturday afternoon.
David Attenborough.
I used to love his nature programmes and his unique observation of animal behaviour.
Now all you get is him driveling on about man’s damage to the planet, deforestation, and the changing climate due to the enormous amount of CO2 man is producing.
How does he expect a Brazilian farmer to support his family by claiming back some rain forest to graze his cows and grow some crops. And while we’re on the subject, what happened to all our forests in the UK? Not to mention the thousands of houses springing up everywhere, together with hundreds of hectares of solar panels and wind turbines where one decent sized coal fired power station would provide more power than the lot of them, take up helluva lot less space, and Drax actually sits on at least 300 years worth of coal…?
Yeah, we know David, try telling the people who can actually do something about it, instead of preaching to some couch potato eating take aways and swilling a can of lager.
Flying all over the world and probably living in a decent house with the obligatory Range Rover on the drive, you haven’t done too badly off it have you?
I agree - David Attenborough has probably logged up more hours flying around the world than any other individual, yet continues to lecture everyone about how it is all our fault.
No, he is a good guy. The human race is responsible for the mess our plant is in.
But I don’t watch David Attenborough Foxy!!
RAY MAWBY. . Local Conservative MP & Minister. 1955.
Who. At That Time. 'I Unwittingly. Acted as his Electoral Agent.
How Wrong Can One Be. With unredeemable Regret.
Yet by Default. A Massive Learning Curve.!!
Covertly. He was a SPY [LAVEL] General Staff Officer of the then Communist Czechoslovakian Peoples Army. As revealed by MI5. Two years later.
The Constituency was Dissolved.
His Demise, Conviction or Punitive consequence’s Have never been formally published by MI5.
Love his animal documentaries his voice is great and great shows ,
Yeah he’s a bit creepy, especially when spaced, trying to enjoy a few tinnies.
Yes but can you make a difference Tiff? Can I make a difference? He’s preaching to the wrong audience.
All he’s done is to make you think we’re all doomed…Can you honestly say that you are a better person for knowing that stuff?
I do what I can, but it’s governments all over the World who should watch & listen to his series. They are the cause of our problems. David is trying to warn what would happen if nothing it done to stop the pollution etc.
I agree with some governments but mostly it is people . Here some beaches looked like big ash trays until government fines on smokers .
‘’ MIAMI BEACH – Ocean Conservancy is making a statement so beach goers will pay attention to the new law that bans smoking on beaches in Miami Beach. Giant cigarette butt sculptures were temporarily placed in the sand at a news conference today to educate the public about the new smoking ban that officially became law on January 1.
“As we start 2023, we want people to take note that cigarettes have no place on our beaches. Ocean Conservancy advocated strongly for this very important law, and we are thrilled to see Miami Beach take this significant and proactive step to protect our environment,” said Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, director of Florida Conservation at Ocean Conservancy. “Cigarette butts may be small, but they have a lasting, harmful effect on our wildlife and ocean.”
More than two dozen Florida cities are now taking action to ban smoking on beaches, from Sarasota to Jacksonville to Miami Beach. This comes after the Florida Legislature passed a law last year which allows municipalities to vote to enact their own local bans.
“The message is simple: let’s get the bad butts off the beach. Smoking is no longer allowed,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber. “People from around the world come to enjoy Miami Beach, and our beaches are the crown jewel. We are standing up to protect our most valuable and beloved gem for generations to come.”
For more than 30 years, cigarette butts have been the most commonly found item on Florida beaches during Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanup.
“This new law has the ability to make a huge impact. Eleven million tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. That’s like dumping more than a garbage truck full of plastic into the ocean every single minute. Cigarette butts never fully degrade, which means they stay in the ocean indefinitely,” Brooker added.
You will agree the more one knows the better off we are .
One day while walking a beach barefoot, I stepped on a still burning cigarette butt. Soul of foot slightly burned. May the bird of Paradise fly up the nose of the smoker who discarded it. 
Not to mention his earlier career on Zoo Quest, where he filmed animal collecting expeditions for London Zoo, aaaaand many animals of died in Transit The series, which ran from 1954 to 1963, involved Attenborough traveling to various countries with London Zoo staff to capture animals for their collection. Zoo Quest was a significant part of Attenborough’s career, establishing him as a prominent nature documentary presenter.
I liked to watch it. It was educational and different BUT that was then,thankfully most of us have changed out attitude to wild life since.
Welcome to the forum Cragzee 
Agreed attitudes have changed but now hes the BBC’s go to wildlife/climate change expert 
thanks for the welcome the olnly person to say hi thank you
