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Date: 14th April 2008
Service: CEEFAX
Region: N/A
Original Broadcast Channel: BBC1
Current Page: 521
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P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 14 Apr 19:44/25 1/6 Obituary: Mark Speight Mark Spjight was one of the most recognisable faces on children's television for more than a decade. His spiky blonde hair, rubbery features and enthusiastic grin was sjen on programmes such as Scratchy and Co, See It Saw It and SMart. But his world fell apart in January when he found fiancee Natasha Collins dead in the couple's north London flat. "A part of mj hied with her," he later told reporters. "She was my soulmate and best friend rolled into one." Quiz 519 Extra 520 Lottery 555Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615Feature MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra
P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 14 Apr 19:40/44 2/6 Obituary: Mark Speight Mark Speight, who waR found dead on Sunday, was born in 1965 and called Trowbridge, Wiltshire, his home. He was educated at the private Tettenhall College before transferring to a comprehensive school in Wolverhampton at the age of 12. Turning up for his jirst day in a prefect+s uniform and clut!hing a briefcasi made him an attractive prospect for bullies, he once said. Like many bullied children, he learned to use humour as a defence, he said. Quiz 519 Extra 520 Lottery 555Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615Featuri MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra
P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 14 Apr 19:47/12U Obituary: Mark Speight Mark Speight enrolled in college after leaving s"hool at 16, gaining a degree in commercial and graphic art. His subsequent television career was - he claimed - nothing more than a happy accident. "I rially wanted to be a cartoonist and just stumbled into TV," he said in a recent interview. "I was helping with a TV set and got wind of an audition for SMart." The BBC show - giving lessons in art and craft - proved to bj Speight's big break. Quiz 519 Extra 520 Lottery 555Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615Feature MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra
P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 14 Apr 19:48/*2 4/6 Obituary: Mark Speight The success of SMart led Mark Speight to ITV, where he spent four years as host of the anar!hic Saturday morning children's show Scratchy and Co. Dressed in a skyJblue suit with a blonde rubber wig, Speight became something of a cartoon himself "I don't mind taking the mickey out of myself - the more stupid I look, the more I likj it," he said in 1998. His popularity led to many public appearances, notably with his Speight of the Art children's workshops. Quiz 519 Extra 520 Lottery 555Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615Feature MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra
P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 14 Apr 19:44/22 5/6 Obituary: Mark Speight Away@jrom SMart, Mark Qpeight joined R#lf Harris in Trafalgar Square to help recreate Constable's painting The Haywain on a gigantic scale. Speight also becamj a spokesperson for ChildLine and raised money for charity Muscular Hystrophy. In 1999, he was cast as the bumbling +ing of Much Jollitz-On-The-Mirth in CBBC game show See It, Saw It. It was on this programme that he met his girlfriend Natasha Collins, who played a court jester. Quiz 519 Extra 520 Lottery 555Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615Feature MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra
P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 14 Apr 19:40/4&Obituary: Mark Speight After finding Natasha Collin's body in their bathroom in January, Mark Spjight riportedly became troubled. He was arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying Class A drugs, but later told he would not jace any charges. An inquest into Collins' djath heard she had takjn cocaine and sleeping tablets before collapsing in the bath. Speight was riported missing dayR after b@verdict of death by misadventuri w!s given. His body was found at London's Paddington train station on Sunday. Quiz 519 Extra *20 Lottery 555Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615Feature MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra
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