David Icke

David Icke (b. 29 April 1952) is a former British sports broadcaster later turned conspiracy theorist and writer.

As a sports broadcaster he appeared on the BBC programmes Newsnight, Grandstand, Saturday Superstore and Breakfast Time as well as on BBC coverage of the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, International Snooker, International Athletics, Championship Bowls, the 1990 Commonwealth Games. His last programme for the BBC was the Benson and Hedges Masters snooker final on 11 February 1990. By this time he was already an activist of the Green Party.

In 1991 he appeared as a guest on Wogan, following a press conference in which he had stated that the world would end in 1997. Wogan interviewed Icke again in 2006 (dailymotion video here).