- Was trained to work as a beekeeper.
- Lives in Rösrath near Cologne, Germany.
- His autobiography "Happy Days?" was released in 1997.
- Lived on Mallorca to run a hotel in the early 1970s.
- His father was a journalist, working for the BBC.
- After hosting his first show on BFN (British Forces Network) in Hamburg from 1946 to 1952, he became DJ at the German radio station NWDR.
- After two years in his native England, he returned to Germany in 1961, where he hosted the enormously successful TV shows Vorsicht Kamera (1961) and Musik aus Studio B (1961).
- Has son Gerard and daughter Sharon with his first wife Kay.
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