Early life

Brought higher around Surrey and attending Caterham School, Deayton showed early promise as a footballer, and got the test sustaining Crystal Palace. The sporting career was does'nt to become, & he page through languages at New College, Oxford, where he was recruited into a satiric review for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This led to a creation of the parody band the Hee Bee Gee Bees within 1980. Their better marketing individual "Meaningless Songs" (+ a B-side "Posing in the Moonlight") was the parody of the falsetto style of countless disco hits from either Australian popular class action a Bee Gees. A parody songs were written by Richard Curtis and Philip Pope.

Comedy career

A foundation of Deayton's career was a parody of commercial/local British radio stations Radio Active transmitted on BBC Radio 4 between 1981 & 1987, which he each wrote and performed within. It transferred to television when KYTV between 1989 and 1993. In the time of this period, Deayton was likewise oftentimes seen appearing as a second banana alongside Rowan Atkinson; & asterisked by having Atkinswithin within 2 separate roles (a pool attendant and the human on the park bench) in one of the earliest episodes of Mr Bean.

Inside 1990 Deayton was cast as a Meldrews' neighbour Patrick Trench in the British suburban sitcom One Foot in the Grave and was selected as the unsuspecting hosts of the indicate that would produce him a personal title, Keep around We Had News For We. He besides appeared in the award-winning Alexei Sayle's Stuff.

Deayton's suave manner when hikers of Own We Had News For We & the tabloid kiss-&-tell story by an ex-girlfriend led to him existence nicknamed "TV's Mr Sex" within 1993. He erstwhile accept a Seventies singer/songwriter Stephanie de Sykes. He was good deal desired as a presenter of television specials including a BBC's New Season's Eve indicate & a BAFTA Awards. He as well featured inside a series of advert for charge card & the films Savage Hearts & Elizabeth.

Scandal

Inside Can 2002 he was embarrassed by tabloid revelations of the relationship sustaining a prostitute and cocaine use, and his remuneration was reduced per BBC. Within October there were farther reports of an extended-standing affair, & he wwhen asked to step down as a question master of Stand We Had News For Wise shoppers in October 29.

A BBC said his position as a satirical commentator on the week's news had be indefensible, though a select few observers suggested that – when his position was fundamentally that of an actor reading the script – he should own been allowed to prove my point. Numbers of took a review that them regular panellist in Use We Had News For We, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, contributed to his downfall – even if only by failing to offer Deayton trend lines. While Merton was asked by Michael Parkinson whether he had stabbed Deayton in the back he replied "no, I stabbed him in the front", though this might lone use at times been for laughable result. More panellist, like Stephen Fry have supported Deayton by refusing to appear on the indicate once more.

He continues to operate in more projects including the recently episode of Radio Active which was broadcast around December 2002. He recently starred within BBC comedy Nighty Night which was shown from January 2004. Two or three months late, he mass produced the link to to presenting using ITV's cookery reality indicate ''Hell's Kitchen and then the light-hearted quiz Bognor or Bust''.