Fred Housego

Education

Housego was educated at Kynaston Comprehensive School, where he passed one General Certificate of Education O-level in British Constitution.

Career

He did not give up his taxi licence when he began his media career and he was still driving a cab in 2007. In addition to driving a taxi he has also worked as a messenger for an advertising agency, a postman and a registered London Tourist Board tour guide. In an interview with Bradley Walsh for Come on Down! The Game Show Story, he said that his knowledge came from being a London Tourist Board-registered tour guide.

Housego lives in Pevensey Bay, East Sussex, England.

As of 2007 he continued to work as a taxi driver. Housego, who suffers from diabetes, became overweight but by exercise and diet lost six stone in six months.

Achievements

• In 1980, Housego won a series of in front of 18,000,000 viewers, becoming Britain"s first celebrity quizzer and beating Ingram Wilcox, who subsequently won £1,000,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.