Jeremy Paxman

2022 - 10 - 4

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ITV Jeremy Paxman Parkinson's documentary - What time it is on ... (Redditch Advertiser)

The 72-year-old presenter will lead a one-off special on ITV as he allows cameras into his life for the first time since his formal diagnosis 18 months ago. The ...

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Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson's documentary to air on ITV ... (Yorkshire Evening Post)

A documentary looking into the life of Leeds-born Jeremy Paxman after being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease is on TV tonight - here's how to watch.

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Doctor watched Jeremy Paxman on TV and realised he had ... (Evening Standard)

The veteran broadcaster will be stepping down after almost three decades of hosting University Challenge after learning he had the neurological disease. Mr ...

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Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson's: ITV documentary on Jeremy ... (Edinburgh News)

The University Challenge host, Jeremy Paxman, opens up about his Parkinson's diagnosis in a one-off ITV programme.

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Jeremy Paxman's doctor diagnosed Parkinson's disease after ... (Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Jeremy Paxman is set to present a one-off special on ITV about his diagnosis.

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UK doctor watched Jeremy Paxman host University Challenge and ... (Economic Times)

One of his doctors observed TV quiz show host Jeremy Paxman's on University Challenge, and realised that he might have Parkinson's disease before the ...

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Unearthed footage shows Jeremy Paxman on The Thick Of It (Liverpool Echo)

Jeremy Paxman is one of the UK's most respected journalists after a TV career spanning decades. The former Newsnight presenter, 72, announced his decision ...

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Jeremy Paxman diagnosed with Parkinson's after doctor saw him on ... (Metro)

University Challenge host Jeremy Paxman got his Parkinson's diagnosis last year, after a doctor noticed he was less 'exuberant' than usual.

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Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson's: ITV documentary on Jeremy ... (Edinburgh News)

The University Challenge host, Jeremy Paxman, opens up about his Parkinson's diagnosis in a one-off ITV programme.

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Six lesser-known Parkinson's symptoms as Jeremy Paxman opens ... (Scottish Daily Record)

The former Newsnight star has revealed his doctor spotted his Parkinson's disease while watching him on University Challenge.

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Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson's, review: the disease gets a ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

The University Challenge presenter retained his characteristic no-nonsense attitude in this unsentimental documentary.

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Paxman: Putting Up With Parkinson's review – I am already ... (The Guardian)

The TV legend won't be cajoled into crying as he investigates his illness and films his final series of University Challenge – but he does give us ...

It does so with the clinical precision that you would expect and with a solid sense of humour that comes as more of a surprise. Though it is billed as a personal film, Paxman is too professional to give much away. There is a brief moment in which he gets to sit down again with Michael Howard, the recipient of his most famous grilling, to show what a bulldog he could be in his prime as a political interviewer. His old Spitting Image puppet is wheeled out at the pub, and the brief archive clips serve as a reminder of a past he is now leaving behind. He is a wonderfully unsentimental documentarian, insisting that he is not participating in the film to elicit sympathy and refusing to be cajoled into “blubbing” on camera. Paxman explains the “Parkinson’s mask”, a stiffness of facial muscles that make it harder to smile, for example, or to raise your eyebrows.

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Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson's, ITV, review: The University ... (iNews)

MANDATORY CREDIT Livewire Pictures Limited/ITV Undated handout photo issued by ITV of Jeremy Paxman Jeremy Paxman attends an English National Ballet therapy ...

When he resolved to focus on the positives (he had a renewed appreciation for life) we were treated to The Verve’s “Lucky Man”. “I doubt it will be on either of our tombstones,” Howard said of the exchange (which curiously had nothing whatsoever to do with Paxman’s health). The problem was that he was already clear-eyed about where he stood, turning the film into an hour of box-ticking for the benefit of the viewer, rather than for Paxman himself. He also went to Manchester to interview a woman who claimed she could “smell” people with the condition. “I’m not going to blub on camera,” he said at the top of the busy and somewhat curmudgeonly documentary, Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson’s. “I don’t want to be involved in a film that is in any way encouraging of the ‘poor little me’ syndrome.”

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