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    Reginald Bosanquet
    Never let it be said men can't multi-task. Every night in the mid to late '70s, naughty Reggie would simultaneously deliver solemn updates about power cuts and IRA attacks while apparently giving the nation's women the glad-eye and appearing ever-so-slightly drunk. Indeed, one colleague remembers him wandering out of the ITN green room carrying two huge glasses of red wine. When asked where he was going, he replied: "To read the news, of course." Rumour has it he'd keep the booze under his desk throughout the bulletin and take a swig whenever a film report came on.
    Where is he now? Reggie's sudden retirement from ITN in 1979 marked the end of an era - and sparked a touching tribute song by the Not the Nine O'Clock News team, entitled 'Oh, Reginald!' Sadly, he died of pancreatic cancer in 1984, aged just 51.

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