Alan Dedicoat
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[[The National Lottery Big Ticket|The Big Ticket]] | [[The National Lottery Big Ticket|The Big Ticket]] | ||
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[[Glee Club|Comic Relief Does Glee Club]] | [[Glee Club|Comic Relief Does Glee Club]] | ||
[[Copycats]] | [[Copycats]] | ||
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| + | [[Everyone's a Winner]] | ||
[[In It to Win It]] | [[In It to Win It]] | ||
[[Jet Set]] | [[Jet Set]] | ||
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| + | [[Millionaire Manor]] | ||
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| + | [[On the Spot (1)]] | ||
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| + | [[Red Alert]] | ||
[[Strictly Come Dancing]] | [[Strictly Come Dancing]] | ||
[[This Time Tomorrow]] | [[This Time Tomorrow]] | ||
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| + | [[We've Got Your Number]] | ||
[[Winning Lines]] | [[Winning Lines]] | ||
Revision as of 12:25, 16 November 2012
Biography
Graduated from several years at the BBC in Birmingham and Devon to join the Presentation Department of BBC Radio 2. Went on to read the news and do continuity links before, somehow, landing the bizarre job of calling out the numbers as they fall out of the lottery machine - leading to Terry Wogan nicknaming Alan as the Voice of the Balls.
His style is quick-witted, and he likes to give each lottery number a 'personality': "Forty-two! There's £42 million left unclaimed in prize money... Twenty-five! There are 25 kids in Gosport now with new toasters thanks to a Lottery grant..."
Trivia
Alan was born in Hollywood - no, not that one, a village in North Worcestershire.
As well as being the VotB, his other nickname is 'Deadly' - as in "Deadly Alancoat".
He does the voiceover for the US version of Strictly Come Dancing (i.e. Dancing with the Stars) also.
Alan is also the head of presentation for Radio 2.
Along with a Radio 2 trio of DJ Ken Bruce, newsreader Charles Nove and producer Steve Madden, Deadly co-owns one of the few remaining Routemaster buses around London.
