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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099443155
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099443155
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 271,530 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dale Winton is currently one of the most popular stars on television. For over 25 years his winning ways have made him one of Britain's most popular and powerful media personalities, as well as with live audiences everywhere. However, his personal life has been marred by poverty and tragedy, and this memoir not only covers his difficult rise to fame but also his determination not to let a tragic childhood blight his adult life. It is a disarmingly honest account of his relationship with his parents, his bullying father who died on the day of his bar mitzvah, and particularly the very close relationship he had with his beautiful but troubled mother, whose lengthy struggle with depression and carefully planned suicide has haunted him since the afternoon he found her, just days after his 21st birthday. Dale's story also deals with his lifelong problem with his weight, the plastic surgery he has undergone, and reveals the complicated truth about his sexuality.

About the Author
Born in 1955, Dale grew up in North London. He began his career as a DJ on the London club circuit, and his first professional steps as a young aspiring broadcaster began in 1974 with the United Biscuits Industrial Radio Station. By 1977 he was presenting a five-day-a-week live programme at Radio Trent. In 1989 Dale broke into television, and in 1993 began presenting the hugely popular seven-series show, Supermarket Sweep. Since then he has presented a wide variety of prime-time shows including The National Lottery, The Other Half, Pets Win Prizes and Touch the Truck, as well as numerous one-off specials. Dale also presents Saturday afternoon's Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks Dale For An Enjoyable Read!, 25 Mar 2003
This review is from: Dale: My Story (Hardcover)
Thanks Dale for an excellent book. I felt it very heartwarming and very emmotional to read. I spent most of the time reading a chapter and then having alittle cry. I wish authors could write a book which was so moving. But also there was alot of humour in the book. I also felt that as you were reading it, Dale was telling you the story as if he was in the same room as you. I recommend this book to anyone, young or old. I have been a fan of Dale's for a few years now and I was so glad to have read a facinating book.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars insightful, honest and fun - an excellent buy, 28 Oct 2002
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This review is from: Dale: My Story (Hardcover)
This is a great story. Dale is an excellent TV entertainer who always seems so full of life and happy. I was therfore surprised to read about the tragedies in his life, but full of admiration for the way that he has risen above them all and worked hard to get where he is today.

In this book you really get to see the real Dale. He comes across as a very honest and genuine man, but it's all written in a way that lets you know that he has still kept his sense of fun and humour. The book reads as if Dale was telling you his story himself - you can really hear his voice - which makes the funny stories all the more hilarious!

The pictures in the book are worth the money themselves - lovely pictures of Dale as a young boy, with the mother he adored (a beautiful woman who committed suicide when he was 21, the story of how he found her is a part of the book that is so sensitively written it brought tears to my eyes), and pictures of him when he was overweight and you can't tell it's him.

This would make a lovely present, but is also a brilliant book to buy yourself - perfect to curl up with on the sofa on a cold winters day. It's one of the best showbusiness autobiographies I've read in ages. Thank you Dale.

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7 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Dale shows his private side (sort of), 10 Oct 2002
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This review is from: Dale: My Story (Hardcover)
As a great reader of biography, I thought that any book written by Dale Winton would be larger-than-life and deeply camp, much like the man himself. However that wasn't really the case.

While this book gives the reader an insight into his difficult early years (parents' divorce, mother's illness and death), it quickly turned into a luvvie-fest where everyone Dale met became a 'dear friend'. While I can imagine this being the case, as Dale comes across as a friendly sort of guy, after a while in the book it gets a bit gushing and insincere. He glosses over the negative bits of his career, for example when he switched agents who were also 'great friends' when he hit the big time. Very little space is devoted to this - instead he prefers to tell us how wonderful his new agent is.

Of course, many of us want the answer to the 'is he gay' question, which Dale gives us in the very last chapter. Without letting on what he tells us, there are few surprises in store.

All in all this is the sort of lightweight book that will while away a few hours on a plane or on the beach, but it's not an in-depth autobiography and there are no big surprises. Dale comes across as a rather shallow, insecure, camp 'luvvie' - nothing more and nothing less than we expected based on his tv persona.

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