Talk:Fran Godfrey

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Clean

This also needs some cleanup, I think.

Feasibility of Article

Wikipedia is a serious, factual encyclopedia. I am sincerely doubtful that Ms Godfrey is not 90 next year; please can posts be kept sensible, please. I will remove it, unless anyone has proof of her age, and is prepared to back it up with hard evidence.--Jonfun 16:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

As all good TOGs know, on her age, Fran will only say she is 'the wrong side of 40'. This means that anyone adding a year of birth to this article is probably doing so without knowing whether it is factual or not - and I doubt Fran would add one herself. 81.156.156.29 (talk) 20:04, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Someone has added her year of birth as 1953. To my knowledge Fran has never revealed her age, but in case it is correct I've left it in and requested a reference. TheRetroGuy (talk) 13:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

My recent edits

I've had a go at tidying this up a bit, and adding the Sir Terry quotes as references. I think this article will need some more work doing to it though. TheRetroGuy (talk) 11:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Fran poetry

Someone just changed this today , but I seem to remember it being "I'm in love with Fran Godfrey" rather than "I've fallen in love with Fran Godfrey". Listeners could have used both I suppose. TheRetroGuy (talk) 21:31, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Companions

Moved to talk, any relevance? RJFJR (talk) 15:28, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Godfrey's newsreader companions on Wake Up to Wogan were:

• Alan Dedicoat
• John Marsh - Now freelance, after retiring in February 2007.
• Charles Nove

Not as a section on her WUTW colleagues, but I suppose it could be included in a See also section. TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Date of birth

While I'm here, why is her BBC biography given as a reference for her date of birth? It says nothing about this. I know it occurrs at the end of June as it's often been mentioned on air by presenters if she's presenting bulletins on her birthday, but a year has never been given. TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:57, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

It says on that page: "She was born Frances Helen Godfrey in Hampstead, London on June 29 not so long ago." This would be consistent with the record of birth registration here at FreeBMD. Her record at Companies House seems to be this one, which also gives June 1953. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:52, 28 February 2025 (UTC)