In 1959, Blofeld played in half of the University fixtures, including the Varsity Match against Oxford,[13] where he won his Blue "as an opening batsman of sorts... the worst Blue awarded since the war" according to Blofeld himself. [citation needed], In 1995, Blofeld was censured for an allegedly antisemitic comment made live on-air on Test Match Special, when broadcasting from Headingley. She had a miscarriage or two.
He played one Gillette Cup match for a minor county, Norfolk against Hampshire in 1965 under the captaincy of Bill Edrich, who was 49 years old at the time.
In January 2012, he rejoined the TMS team covering England's tour of the United Arab Emirates against Pakistan and also the autumn 2012 England tour of India. Henry has one daughter called Suki, 56, from his first marriage with Joanna. He had also previously commentated for ITV in the 1960s. [27] He often wears vividly coloured outfits, which he ascribes to partial colour blindness. [2], Blofeld's family were landowners at Hoveton in Norfolk and he was the youngest of three siblings. The Real Marigold Hotel star’s second wife was Bitten and the two broke up in 2007. Blofeld has been a regular commentator for TMS since 1972, except for a period at BSkyB from 1991 to 1994. The stars of The Real Marigold Hotel have settled in their new home in Puducherry, India. He has a daughter, Suki (born 1964), with his first wife. Of the 16 games that Blofeld played for Cambridge (five in 1958 and 11 in 1959), he kept wicket in only four of them. He was wicket-keeper for the Eton College First XI[8] and had an exceptional career as a schoolboy cricketer. Filiz is a film and TV journalist with a flair for everything related to reality soaps and showbiz. One of Britain’s most loved broadcasters.
Blofeld has been married three times and divorced twice. Registered in England No. He referred to onlookers watching a match from the balcony of a tall building outside the ground at Headingley as being at "the Jewish end". He separated from his Swedish second wife, Bitten, in 2007. [32], Blofeld has been married three times and divorced twice. [25] The show has been recorded on DVD[26][25] and CD. Welcome to the boisterous bubbly world of Blowers; crickets' quintessential commentator & national treasure. The BBC One programme returned for series 4 with a new line-up of celebrities who want to test the sweet retirement life in India far away from gloomy and cold Britain. During the summer 2008 season, he resumed a full commentating quota on Tests and ODIs.
– Series 11: At Christmas", "Henry Blofeld: at last, love has bowled me over", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Blofeld&oldid=966844493, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Short description is different from Wikidata, BLP articles lacking sources from December 2012, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2012, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2013, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 July 2020, at 14:44. [7], Blofeld played cricket at both Sunningdale and Eton. [6], Blofeld was educated at Sunningdale School and at Eton College, followed by King's College, Cambridge, but failed both his final exams "by an innings". Relative Values: the cricket commentator Henry Blofeld and his daughter, Suki. WATCH THE REAL MARIGOLD HOTEL FROM APRIL 30TH AT 9 PM ON BBC ONE, AND GET FREAKY WITH US ON INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK. [24], Outside cricket, Blofeld's favourite hobby is "drinking wine", followed by "eating food" and "going out." After tea on the first day, Stewart was rushed back to hospital and played no further part in the tour. Blofeld lives in Chelsea. Henry Blofeld was born in 1939, on the landed Norfolk estate where his family have lived since the 16th century. His last first-class victim was Howland, captaining Cambridge that year. After a slow, watchful start, we came together like a couple of well-trained magnets. Valeria also has children of her own from a previous relationship. [16][34][33] As of 2013[update] his main occupation was on stage at the theatre.[16].
We all got splendidly drunk and the next morning I was told that I was the father of a beautiful daughter. [9] In 1956, Blofeld scored 104 not out for a Public Schools team against the Combined Services,[10] and he was given the Cricket Society's award for the most promising young player of the season. Blofeld was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2003. He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He attended Eton and then King’s College, Cambridge, despite not passing any A-Levels (“my family had been going to King’s forever”, he explained). Blofeld published an autobiography, Squeezing the Orange, in 2013. When he was told by David Clark, the tour manager, that he might have to play, Blofeld replied "I would certainly play if needed, but if I scored 50 or upwards in either innings I was damned if I would stand down for the Calcutta Test". He has his own Côtes du Rhône label which he markets as Blowers' Rhône and unashamedly promotes this during his one-man theatrical chat shows An Evening With Blowers, that he mainly performs during the cricket close season.
And thanks to TripAdvisor, we found that the two were on a Meditteranean cruise in 2016 where they enjoyed a day out at a local restaurant in Lisbon. Blofeld lives in Chelsea. Since 2006 he has commentated less frequently, missing the 2007 World Cup, despite having covered the opening ceremonies of the two preceding World Cups in 2003 and 1999 for TMS. He separated from his Swedish second wife, Bitten, in 2007. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Henry and Valeria used to live in London and they are based in Norfolk now. Henry Blofeld : biography 23 September 1939 – Personal life Henry has been married and divorced twice. [33], In a Boxing Day 2013 interview on the Radio New Zealand Summer Noelle programme, Blofeld said he had recently married an Italian woman, Valeria. [11] Appointed Eton captain in his final year at school, Blofeld suffered a very serious accident, when he was hit by a bus while riding a bicycle,[8] remaining unconscious for 28 days.[12][7]. Have something to tell us about this article?
[30] In December 2017 he was a guest on the BBC One comedy panel show Would I Lie to You? Joanna and I planned to have a much bigger family, but sadly that never happened.
[21] He was given a standing ovation on a lap of the ground following the match. ... the first of which produced a daughter, Suki, now 49.
He had a double heart bypass operation in 1999 after being diagnosed with angina and was given the last rites after he nearly died in intensive care following the operation.
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