Chris Tarrant was one of the UK's best known faces, as host of smash-hit gameshow, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Chris, 73, rose to fame after becoming a co-host on Tiswas, the children's television show broadcast on Saturday mornings from 1974 to 1981.
He was a DJ on Capital Radio from 1984 to 2004, presenting the early-morning show Capital Breakfast, which proved hugely popular.
But it was in his role as host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire that he became known around the globe.
Chris hosted the show from 1998 to 2014, while also providing some audio recordings for some console games, and a tabletop game based on the show.
In total he recorded a total of 592 episodes, where five contestants walked away with the cash prize of £1 million.
Tonight a drama about the infamous cheating incident on the show is aired on ITV.
Quiz shows what happened when Charles and Diana Ingram attempted to cheat their way to fortune on the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2001.
Major Charles Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, were accused of cheating their way to a million pounds on what was, the most popular game show on earth.
And after Chris left the iconic show in 2014, he struggled to find similarly successful presenting roles.
He hosted a series of failed game shows for ITV, including The Colour of Money.
In 2012, Chris began a travel documentary series, Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways for Channel 5, which has now spanned over several series.
The show has been compared to similar programmes made by Michael Palin and Michael Portillo.
In 2017 he became a continuity announcer for the TV channel Challenge.
But Chris has had several brushes with the law including on 18 December 2017, when he appeared in court charged with drink driving.
He returned to court on 18 January 2018 and received a £6,000 fine and a 12-month driving ban
