Don Maclean

Don Maclean
MBE KSS
Don Maclean MBE KSS
Born	1942 or 1943 (age 81–82); Birmingham, England
Occupations	Actor; comedian;

Don Maclean

Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze and Jan Hunt

in the 1970s.

Born in

Crossroads and early in his career he was a comedy compère of the BBC television series The Black and White Minstrel Show

.

On Crackerjack, Maclean usually performed a live routine or routines with Glaze in front of a studio audience of children and a filmed insert with Glaze, in the style of a silent comedy film. Live routines would almost always work in the 'joke' where an exasperated Glaze would exclaim 'Maclean!' to which Maclean would answer 'Yes, I had a bath this morning!'. Also notable was that when responding to Glaze's exasperation, Maclean would regularly give an alliterative reply, such as "Don't get your knickers in a knot" or "Don't get your tights in a twist".[3] Maclean also appeared in the film Carry On Columbus. A practising Roman Catholic, from 1990^[4] Maclean presented BBC Radio 2's religious show Good Morning Sunday, until he was replaced by Aled Jones in 2006.

He hosted the panel games The Clever Dick-Athlon (1988–90) and Are You Sitting Comfortably (1993–96), both for Radio 2, and First Letter First (1993) for BBC1. He also toured in the play There's No Place Like a Home with Gorden Kaye. In 2009, he claimed that the BBC is keen on programmes which attack churches and that there is a wider secularist campaign to get rid of Christianity.^[5]

In 2006 Maclean pleaded guilty to

drink-driving and had his licence suspended for twelve months.^[1]