About Fred Housego
Fred Housego is a former London taxi driver and tour guide who became a television and radio personality and presenter after winning the BBC television quiz Mastermind in 1980. Notwithstanding his fame and success, he retained his taxi licence upon commencing his media career and continued his taxi-driving career as late as 2007. In 1980 Housego won a series of Mastermind in front of 18 million viewers. However it is radio where Housego has spent most of his broadcasting career, and he became the host of an all-night radio phone-in show, in London, on LBC for many years during the 1990s. Housego suffers from diabetes and became overweight but by exercise and diet lost 6 stone (84 lb; 38 kg) in six months.
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