Geoffrey from Rainbow has died

[Wookey]

He's up above the streets and houses now.

If you believe in that kinda stuff.

Rainbow presenter Geoffrey Hayes dies

 

[editor]

Turns out that Rainbow screwed up his later career ;

A
fter Rainbow, Hayes said he was "frustrated" not to find more acting work, as "directors could only think of me as Rainbow's Geoffrey".

He appeared in pantomimes and on some panel gameshows including an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2002 and Pointless Celebrities in 2015.

In a 2015 interview with the Express, Hayes said he had spent four months working nights, shelf-stacking at a local supermarket, and had also worked a stint as a taxi driver - something that was played upon in an advertising campaign he starred in for Monster Munch.

In the interview, Hayes recalled his time on Rainbow with fondness: "I'm very proud of Rainbow and even now, over 20 years since it finished in 1993, people remember it with affection. Amazingly, I still get recognised. People stop me and thank me for being an important part of their childhood - it's humbling."

 

[rubbershoes]

RIP Geoffrey

And I hear that Zippy is quite ill too

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

A sad day - Charles Aznavour and Carlos Ezquerra died today too.

 

[marty21]

That is sad news - Rainbow was a big show when I was a kid - RIP Geoffrey

 

[kalidarkone]

Oh no! Loved him and Brian Cant.

 

[cybershot]

Hopefully he's back playing with his twanger. RIP.

 

[Pickman's model]

RIP

 

[chilango]

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From the ugly mug thread.

RIP Geoffrey.

 

[Pickman's model]

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From the ugly mug thread.

RIP Geoffrey.

that's mighty ugly if they had to be pixellated out

 

[Pickman's model]

a man of many talents

 

[Saul Goodman]

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From the ugly mug thread.

RIP Geoffrey.

 

[5t3IIa]

I remember the day we got a colour telly and watched Rainbow and Bagpuss. Bagpuss is pink!!

 

[sojourner]

Awwrr

 

[Pickman's model]

I remember the day we got a colour telly and watched Rainbow and Bagpuss. Bagpuss is pink!!

fortunately bagpuss is immortal

 

[Ax^]

aww

 

[fizzerbird]

 

[Argonia]

Four blokes innocently living together playing with each other's twangers and not a homosexual undercurrent in sight.

And as for Rod, Jane and Freddy well 'menage a trois' just about covers it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

RIP Geoffrey

And I hear that Zippy is quite ill too

Zippy is a cunt though.

 

[pesh]

 

[planetgeli]

Bane of my life when younger. You try being the same name as someone on Children's TV who has a stupid zipped mouthed puppet saying it in a stupid zipped mouthed voice. Would other kids use that against you? Yes, in a word. This so traumatised me that I wrote a short story based on him as a Jimmy Savile-type character. About 20 years before Savile was unmasked. Fortunately I thought better of it and binned the manuscript. True story. IYSWIM.

RIP.

 

[8ball]

I remember the day we got a colour telly and watched Rainbow and Bagpuss. Bagpuss is pink!!

Bagpuss is a ginger cat as any fule kno.

 

[weepiper]

Here is Mr W's eldest son (now in his early twenties) looking quite starstruck meeting Geoffrey and the rest of the Rainbow crew.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

RIP Mr Rainbow.

 

[Maggot]

RIP Geoffrey

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I hated kids tv as a kid.

But RIP Geoffrey.

 

[mrs quoad]

Fuck him, the cunt.

Actual bane of my childhood.

 

[planetgeli]

Bane of my life when younger.

Actual bane of my childhood.

Ooh, snap!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I hope they don’t bungle the autopsy,

Yeah /laters

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I remember the day we got a colour telly and watched Rainbow and Bagpuss. Bagpuss is pink!!

And George....