Why some people are mourning the departure of Desmond Lynam from presenting Countdown is beyond me. He’s not very good at it, much like Richard Whitely wasn’t very good but at least he laughed in all the right places when Richard Digess spoke and thought Barry Norman’s comic soliloquy on tarmac worth a chortle. Lynam sits there looking shifty, the rlection from his glasses shrouding his eyes so as to make them unreadable, his moustache getting in the way of his words.
And so to the repalcement, someone i championed for the job before Lynam got it. Tom
O’Connor is one of my favourite Dictionary Coner guests, he’s quick, inoffensive and tells jokes well and listens to what other people would say, he’d often wait with baited breath as Whitely replied to a gag by O’Connor in a wholly unsatisfactory way. He made Crosswise nearly bearable as a programme, i honestly believe he could turn his hand to nearly anything on telly and it is a mystery as to why he hasn’t had more work. He is the man for Countdown, it is very hard to hate Tom O’Connor, as good a reason as any that he should get the job. If Dave
Benson-Phillips is booked.
