Fred Dinenage

Fred Edgar Dineage [cite interview |last= Dineage|first= Fred|interviewer= Fearne Cotton|title= Fearne and Reggie|city= |date= 2007-07-21|program= BBC Radio 1] (born 8 June 1942 in Birmingham, England) is a television host and newsreader, based in the south of England.

Dineage has appeared as presenter of many British television programmes (most of them produced by Southern Television and its successors TVS and Meridian), such as "Gambit" (produced by Anglia), "Tell The Truth", "How", and its successor "How 2", as well as the BBC quiz show "Pass The Buck". He is also a well respected newsreader, currently presenting the Southern edition of "Meridian Tonight" for ITV Meridian, alongside Debbie Thrower.

He spent a brief period in the late 1970s covering regional sport for Yorkshire Television (Dineage was shown in a YTV technicians' Christmas tape as being "on loan from Southern Television"Fact|date=December 2007). He also appeared as a relief presenter of the networked ITV Saturday afternoon show, "World of Sport", something which earned him an appearance on the high energy, anarchic children's Saturday show "Tiswas". He also has his own weekly column featured on the magazine of the Southampton local newspaper Southern Daily Echo.

Alongside his television career, Dineage has written several factual books, including ghosting on autobiographies "My Story" and "Our Story" for the Kray twins. He is a keen follower of Association Football, and was on the board of directors at Portsmouth FC for a number of years, before retiring at the end of the 2005/06 season.

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