History Book: Bill Oddie – BBC News

“I was very angry at the time.” He said in a 2015 interview., External with neutral.

“But a year later I was diagnosed with bipolar. I think back. If I had known then what I know now, I would have admitted that I was going through a manic phase.”

The audience misses him. Before his departure, the show averaged 3.19 million. After his departure, that figure dropped to 2.55 million.

Oddie later revealed that his illness caused him to try and take his own life.

In the year In 2020, he announced that he was seriously ill due to lithium poisoning, a treatment intended to stabilize his mood.

“The last few years have been terrible for me,” he later wrote on social media.

“Lost Zeal, But I’m Still Here.”

His outside interests include music. He once did a spell as a radio DJ playing jazz and his house contains thousands of CDs.

Oddie was a supporter of the Green Party and gave his time and fame to strengthen wildlife charities such as the RSPB.

In the year His marriage to musician Jean Hart ended in divorce in 1967. In the year In 1983, he married Laura Beamont, who had previously worked with him on several projects.

Audi is a true polymath who seems to have succeeded in everything he has turned his hand to.

But it was his guard duty that gave him the greatest satisfaction. It has long been a refuge for wildlife; Maybe more than I thought.”