{"id":547092,"date":"2026-07-28T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547092\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:18:08","slug":"the-goodies-star-bill-oddie-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547092\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Goodies\u2019 star Bill Oddie dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK television personality Bill Oddie, best known for his role in the TV comedy series The Goodies and presenter of nature programmes, has died aged 85.<\/p>\n<p>AFP reports that Oddie\u2019s agent David Foster announced the death.\u201cBill was a multi-talented celebrity \u2013 wildlife presenter, broadcaster, comedian, writer, songwriter, musician and conservationist,\u201d Foster said.<\/p>\n<p>Foster did not reveal the cause of Oddie\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Oddie\u00a0grew up in Birmingham\u00a0and achieved fame as one of the trio in The Goodies, starring with Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor in the comedy sketch show which ran from 1970 to 1982.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several of the songs Oddie wrote for The Goodies were UK chart hits, including The Funky Gibbon in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Oddie was a passionate birdwatcher and conservationist, and presented various shows across the BBC and Channel 4, including the nature programme Springwatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK television personality Bill Oddie, best known for his role in the TV comedy series The Goodies and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-547092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}