Keith Chegwin

Keith Chegwin (b.17 January 1957, d.11 December 2017), also known as "Cheggers", was a British television presenter and erstwhile actor, who appeared in several children's TV entertainment shows in the 1970s and 1980s, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and his own Cheggers Plays Pop.

Hailing from Liverpool, he also worked as a disc-jockey for 194 Radio City and spent four years at BBC Radio 1 on Tony Blackburn's weekend morning show.

Between 1982 and 1993 he was married to fellow TV presenter Maggie Philbin (b.1955). The couple had one daughter, Rose, named after Rosemary Gill, the Swap Shop editor who first gave Philbin a job on the programme.

Brother to broadcaster Janice Long and twin to ..., Keith died of lung disease on 11 December 2017, aged 60.

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