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Presenter Dermot O\u2019Leary replaced Sir Terry on Children In Need (David Jansen\/PA)<\/p>\nPresenter Dermot O\u2019Leary has paid tribute to Terry Wogan on his BBC Radio 2 show by playing a song recorded by the former Eurovision commentator.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old, who replaced Wogan on the variety show Children In Need in 2015, said \u201cit\u2019s been 10 years since we lost him\u201d, before adding that he had to play Terry\u2019s 1978 hit single The Floral Dance in tribute.<\/p>\n
Before playing the song, O\u2019Leary asked fellow radio presenter Romesh Ranganathan if he had ever met Wogan, to which he replied: \u201cI didn\u2019t, unfortunately, but I regularly go back to watch him hosting Never Mind The Buzzcocks.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it was so good, because that was such a comedy, comedy show, and obviously Terry is so funny \u2026 you basically feel like you could drop him into any environment or scenario and he\u2019ll be absolutely brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presenter Dermot O\u2019Leary replaced Sir Terry on Children In Need (David Jansen\/PA)<\/p>\n
It comes after Wogan’s so, Mark, described him as \u201cthe least showbiz person in showbiz\u201d while speaking on Jeremy Vine\u2019s BBC Radio 2 show on Friday.<\/p>\n
Wogan said: \u201cHe loved what he did.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs he said, \u2018I\u2019ve got the best job in the world. I go into work every day and laugh for two hours\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark said his father was a \u201cfamily man\u201d who \u201cmade a conscious decision that he was public property\u201d but did not want his family to be bothered by his fame.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cHe was very private and when he clocked off at Radio Two, he genuinely went home. And he was a family man.<\/p>\n
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Dermot O\u2019Leary played The Floral Dance in tribute on his BBC Radio 2 show (Ben Whitley\/PA)<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was the least showbiz person in showbiz. And, you know, if you talk about the Wogan years, where, I think there were two-and-a-half thousand people he interviewed over that period, he became friends with two of them, really.<\/p>\n
\u201cVarious people came through the door, but, I mean, it wasn\u2019t kind of like a sort of showbiz extravaganza at home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked what Terry Wogan was like when he was not working, Wogan said: \u201cHe was exactly the same, but at home, the volume was turned down.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a man who, if he wasn\u2019t working, he was very much relaxing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wogan was also known for his own Radio 2 show, which he stepped down from in November 2015 as he battled prostate cancer, and his chat show, Wogan, which ran from 1982 to 1992.<\/p>\n
He died on January 31, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter Dermot O\u2019Leary has paid tribute to Terry Wogan on his BBC Radio 2 show by playing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,4022,4023],"class_list":{"0":"post-275912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-place-republic-of-ireland","12":"tag-place-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}