Dermot Murnaghan has died

Very sad news. A lovely broadcaster. What a terrible week with Bonnie Tyler, Ann Widdecombe and now Dermot.

Just shows how testing ALL men for prostate cancer, is necessary. Often it will have spread even before any symptoms are noticed, so restricting it to certain categories is IMO cruelly wrong.
We have lost 4 good friends to prostate cancer - one of whom was dead within a year - and my BiL has it in later stages, so this is something I feel very strongly about.

He’s often shown being one of the first, if not the first, to break the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Very handsome man, good presenter.

RIP.

More very sad news. RIP Dermot

I really liked him. He seemed lovely man.
RIP Dermot and sincere condolences to your family and friends.
Another taken too soon. x

I always thought him a dishy newsreader.
Did he have a thing for Princess Diana?

I loved him on Eggheads. RIP Dermot.

Oh no, 3 people in than a week, Dermot, Bonnie and Anne!

How very sad, he just a few months older than I and I had the greatest of respects fr his broadcasting ability and experience.

RIP Dermot

I'm very sorry to hear that also and I think that "accomplished broadcaster" pretty well covers it.
Not another one lost to Stage 4 Prostate Cancer , though !! Bill Turnbull, Dermot Murnaghan and Sir Chris Hoy, diagnosed although fighting back. New treatments are being discovered almost weekly, it sometimes seems so perhaps we will keep Sir Chris for a while. In my prayers Sir Chris as are the bereaved families of the others.

I’m very sorry to hear that - I found him an accomplished broadcaster.

I thought he was a lovely man and am so very sad to hear he has died.

Like you Magenta8, Eggheads was a much better host of Eggheads and we stopped watching after he was replaced by Jeremy Vine.

RIP Dermot