Viewers of the Dale Winton documentary have slammed the show for ‘ruining the story’ with ‘ridiculous’ editing.
The Dale Winton Story: One Of A Kind aired on Channel 5 on Saturday night and was a celebratory tribute of the life and career of the TV presenter.
Radio DJ and television presenter Dale presented the shows Supermarket Sweep from 1993 until 2001 and again in 2007, the National Lottery game show In It to Win It between 2002 and 2016 and the 2008 series of Hole in the Wall.
The much-loved star of the TV screen and airwaves died on April 18 2018 at the age of 62 from natural causes.
But viewers watching the documentary were less than impressed with what they claimed was ‘ridiculous editing’ of the show.
Viewers of the Dale Winton documentary have slammed the show for ‘ruining the story’ with ‘ridiculous’ editing
The Dale Winton Story: One Of A Kind aired on Channel 5 on Saturday night and was a celebratory tribute of the life and career of the TV presenter (seen on Supermarket Sweep)
One wrote on Twitter: ‘@channel5_tv, congratulations for ruining the Dale Winton story… What’s with the stupid interference on the picture and zooming in on the pictures, ridiculous, spoilt a good show, had to turn it off… Sorry Dale…!’
Another viewer complained that there were too many interviews from his friends and not enough content about Dale himself.
She penned: ‘I think there’s more features of Dale Winton in this book than there is on this show! Wheres the features of his face on this show rather than hear from his mates doing ‘interviews’.’
Another said: ‘I feel like this show should he called ‘dale winton’s friends’ because I’m not seeing as much content of him as I would love!!! How dare they @channel5_tv #dalewinton.’
Someone else said: ‘They could of done Dale Winton better than this rather than showing him like a murderer on a board…’.
Dale used his final TV interview to admit it was impossible for him to find love before he died because ‘nobody wants a camp, over 60-year-old man’.
The star, who was found dead at home in 2018 aged just 62, also revealed he couldn’t use internet dating because he feared he would look ‘desperate’ and ‘deeply unattractive’ to other gay men.
But viewers watching the documentary were less than impressed with what they claimed was ‘ridiculous editing’ of the show
The much-loved star of the TV screen and airwaves died on April 18 2018 at the age of 62 from natural causes (his funeral seen on the Channel 5 documentary from Saturday night)
Dale used his final TV interview to admit it was impossible for him to find love before he died because ‘nobody wants a camp, over 60-year-old man’
Speaking in his final TV interview in 2016 he revealed he could not meet anyone to spend his life because he spent too much time chasing ‘mean and nasty’ men.
He said: ‘Nobody wants a camp, over 60-year-old man. I can’t go on dating sites. I’m quite well known so the minute you see the picture it’s desperately unattractive to another gay man to find a guy in showbusiness on there’. He added: ‘It’s time I went from troubled boys to nice guys’.
In June 2016, two months before he was last seen in public, he said: ‘I would not leave the house for five years. I didn’t want to put one foot in front of the other outside the house. I had a bad break up and I had health issues and I thought, ‘I want to withdraw’.’
A year earlier he failed to make it to his close friend Cilla Black’s funeral, sparking concerns about his health, and had undergone four operations in four years to fix crippling pain in his knees and shoulders.
In his 2002 autobiography he came out as gay but revealed his regret at not telling his mother before her death saying in 2008 that nobody had really ever asked him about his sexual orientation.
In 2018 he had relaunched his TV career with a new Channel 5 show Dale’s Florida Fly Drive but he died before the series was shown in full.
Dale was a household name in the mid 1990s and early 2000s while fronting shows like Supermarket Sweep and The National Lottery: In It To Win It.
He was born in Marylebone, London, in May 1955 to Gary and Sheree, an actress.
Writing in his autobiography, Dale Winton: My Story, in 2002, the much loved star touchingly described his relationship with his beloved mother.
‘In truth though, I always felt my Mum would forgive me anything. She believed in boundaries and was strict, but her love for me was real and unconditional.’
His parents divorced when he was 10 and his father died three years later on the day of Winton’s bar mitzvah.
Just days after he turned 21, Winton discovered his mother, who he adored, had died after taking an overdose of prescription medication.
Distraught, Winton never fully got over the loss of his beloved mother and soon after her death sough help from the Samaritans.
‘I had some really desperate personal moments soon after Mum died,’ he said in his autobiography. ‘On one occasion, I telephoned the Samaritans and went to see one of their volunteers.
‘Whatever people say to comfort one, suicide is chiefly thought of as the ultimate rejection of loved ones, as well as of life, and those who are left need time to get beyond these thoughts
The star, who was found dead at home in 2018 aged just 62, also revealed he couldn’t use internet dating because he feared he would look ‘desperate’ and ‘deeply unattractive’ to other gay men
His career in showbusiness began when he worked as a DJ on the London club scene before he moved into work in radio and television.
His big break came with Supermarket Sweep, which saw contestants racing around a supermarket collecting items.
He hosted the show from 1993 to 2001, and was involved in a 2007 reboot.
From there, Winton moved onto prime-time shows including The National Lottery’s In It To Win It and went onto host his own Christmas specials as well as celebrity guest shows.
