He claims negative energy causes cancer, believes his dead parents visit him and drives a life-sized DOLL around… is crackpot telly host the new David Icke?
Noel Edmond's loopy comments about the disease were just the latest in a series of bizarre ramblings
AS the undisputed king of Saturday night telly, Noel Edmonds left the weirdness to his giant pink sidekick, Mr Blobby.
But yesterday the Deal Or No Deal host was on TV defending a series of bizarre comments that threaten to destroy any credibility he still has left.
On ITV’s This Morning, Noel refused to back down over his comments that “negative energy” causes cancer and insisted his own father “died of ignorance”.
The 67-year-old also revealed his own secret cancer battle as he defended a bizarre electrical device he claimed could cure the disease.
Noel told hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in November 2013 but had beaten it with “pulse electro-magnetism”.
Scientific fact — disease is caused by negative energy
He said: “When I found out I had prostate cancer, I went out there and started to ask as many questions as possible. I changed my diet, I exercised in a different way . . .
“I then had my tumour destroyed by soundwaves, proving yet again energy is at the heart of this issue.”
A day earlier Noel had ignited a storm of derision for telling Twitter user and kidney cancer sufferer ‘Vaun Earl’: “Scientific fact — disease is caused by negative energy. Is it possible your ill health is caused by your negative attitude? #explore.”
Yesterday, he insisted his claims that a miracle £2,300 EMPpad “tackles cancer” were still valid.
Noel said of the device last year: “Think of a yoga mat, connected to a computer — it provides you with pulsed electro-magnetism. It removes pain and reduces stress.”
And yesterday he told viewers: “All I’m saying is that by using pulse electro magnetism and a series of other things, I am free of prostate cancer . . . don’t accept convention necessarily.
The biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it’s not Aids, it’s electro smog
“Don’t do what my father did and die of ignorance. I believe pulse electro-magnetism has a role to play in tackling cancer and I will always believe that.”
Bristol-based EMPLtd last night said: “EMPpad does not make the claim that it can prevent cancer.” Friends of former DJ Noel were disturbed but not exactly surprised by his latest crackpot rant.
Last year, he declared: “The biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it’s not Aids, it’s electro smog. Wifi and all of the systems that we are introducing are destroying our own natural electro-magnetic fields. All you are is energy — remember that.”
Not for the first time Noel was compared to fellow TV star turned oddball David Icke, who declared he was the son of God and that the Queen is an alien lizard in disguise.
In 2008 Noel said he was followed around by two “melon-sized” orbs that he believes contain the spirits of his dead parents. He said: “I’ve got loads of photographs of me with two orbs that visit.”
Noel, who chooses not to believe in death, added: “It’s just departure. You cannot die. It’s been known for a very long time.
You cannot destroy energy – it has to return
“The energy leaves your container but it has to go somewhere. You cannot destroy energy. My energy will return to where it came from — part of a massive, incomprehensible universal web of energy.”
Noel has also attracted attention for his choice of transport. He drives a black cab around London with a life-sized mannequin he calls Candice Cannes in the back seat.
The doll was bought five years ago as a ploy to stop people flagging him down for rides.
Now Candice boasts a full wardrobe and her own Twitter account.
Noel also released the dance track Are You Ready? under her name in 2013. Lyrics include: “I hope it’s a big one . . . what’s in your box? It’s quite a big box.”
It was a hit on the Continent.
Despite working for the BBC for 30 years and being worth an estimated £70million, Noel claims he would rather face prosecution than pay his TV licence fee. Last year he voiced his desire to buy the BBC, telling Newsnight: “Business people experienced in corporate rescues all acknowledge there is a model that would save the BBC. Believe me, these people can make it happen.”
His inquisitor, a bemused Jeremy Paxman, asked dryly: “And Mr Blobby is the man to save it?”
Nobody gets a job for life on television
Noel shelved his plans soon afterwards. While he dished out pranks on Noel’s House Party, he received a Gotcha! of his own in 1997 when he was duped by comic Chris Morris on TV’s Brass Eye.
In what he believed to be a public service broadcast, Noel railed against a made-up drug called Cake saying: “What is Cake? Well, it has an active ingredient which is a dangerous psychoactive compound known as dimesmeric andersonphosphate. It stimulates the part of the brain called Shatner’s Bassoon. And that’s the bit of the brain that deals with time perception.
“So, a second feels like a month. Well, it almost sounds like fun . . . unless you’re the schoolboy who walked out into the street straight in front of a tram. He thought he’d got a month to cross the street.”
Noel’s early career reads like a textbook story of homegrown Beeb success. He started out as a 19- year-old newsreader on Radio Luxembourg before becoming the BBC’s youngest Radio 1 DJ in 1969.
He moved up the ranks through radio and then into telly, and was ahead of his time with the viewer interactions and zany stunts he pioneered which are still staples of early evening weekend television. Shows like Multi–Coloured Swap Shop, The Late, Late Breakfast Show and Noel’s House Party made him a household name, and he was also one of the original presenters of Top Gear in the late Seventies.
In 1994, at the height of his powers, Noel raked in 15million viewers and opened Crinkley Bottom theme park, later known as Blobbyland, in Somerset.
But with Edmonds’ and Blobby’s celebrity status on the wane, the attraction began to struggle.
It closed its doors five years later. Worse was to come. The BBC decided the public was fed up with Edmonds and he was paid off, mid–contract, in 1999.
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After the show was canned Edmonds went through a rough patch. His mother died and Helen, his wife of 19 years, left him.
The heartbroken star was branded Mr Sobby as lurid details of his wife’s infidelity with her Pilates instructor hit the headlines.
Noel was also forced to sell his beloved 850-acre estate in Devon.
Before Helen he was married to Gillian Slater for 11 years.
He was at his lowest ebb when given a copy of The Cosmic Ordering Service which prescribes writing down your ambitions in the belief the cosmos will deliver them.
This he credits with turning his life around. In 2005 he got the Deal Or No Deal gig that revitalised his career. A year later he met make-up artist Liz, now the third Mrs Edmonds, who is 20 years his junior. Their property portfolio includes a 17th Century house in the Cotswolds, a Georgian home near Bristol and a place in the South of France.
But Noel is going to need all the positive energy he can muster to survive this latest storm.
One senior Channel 4 executive said last night: “In its heyday Deal Or No Deal pulled in over two million viewers but now it hangs around the 300,000 mark.
“Noel is still immensely popular. But if that goodwill disappears, he of all people knows that nobody gets a job for life on television.”
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