A Blue Peter legend died with out a penny to his title after 9 years on the BBC youngsters’s programme. Christopher Hint started his presenting profession aged 25 in 1958 and was the person to launch the very first episode alongside his co-host Leila Williams.
From there, his profession went from energy to energy. He landed a daily presenting position on BBC Colleges programme Signpost in 1961 and stored the place for 4 years, and even had an performing profession earlier than turning to presenting, starring in movies like 1959 launch The Hound of the Baskervilles and 1960’s Urge to Kill.
However sadly, issues didn’t prove nicely for the star in the long run. By 1967, Blue Peter bosses have been determined to exchange him on the present, branding him tough to cope with on-set. Issues solely escalated when his spouse Margaret Cattrall filed for divorce after Hint cheated on her with a 19-year-old on a Blue Peter journey to Norway. Christopher and his spouse Meg shared two youngsters collectively, Jonathan and Jessica.
Although he went on to work for BBC Radio and BBC Norwich for the subsequent six years, Hint left Blue Peter in 1967 and took a punt on a brand new enterprise enterprise that ended up costing him his life financial savings. He returned to Blue Peter briefly for its twentieth anniversary in 1978, however largely retired from his media profession and ended up pulling pints behind a bar in Norwich and dealing as a taxi driver.
One supply mentioned on the time: “I keep in mind him being robust on display screen on BBC East. He was solely there as his spouse had kicked him out, he’d misplaced all his cash and was consuming and finally he went off to run a pub in Norwich.”
In his later years, Hint did all variety of odd jobs, together with turning into the final supervisor of an engineering manufacturing facility. Whereas working there he misplaced two toes in an industrial accident and stopped coming into work.
Declared bankrupt in 1973 – two years after marrying Prudence Day – the star sadly died aged simply 59 in 1992 from oesophageal most cancers. He was dwelling in Walthamstow on the time and visited by fellow presenters Valerie Singleton and Biddy Baxter in hospital in his last days.
