In a shock noble gesture coming, as it does, just weeks before the BBC loses all its live football, Ian Wright has quit the BBC as a football pundit!

“I feel like I’m just there as a comedy jester to break the ice with Alan Shearer and Alan Hansen, who just do run-of-the-mill things. I can’t do that any more. People want something different.”

Since becoming a professional personality in 2001 Wright has played the comedy jester host of BBC entertainment shows such as I’d Do Anything and Friends Like These.

He is about to do “something different” by playing the comedy jester host of the Sky One revival of Gladiators.

Henry Kissinger is 84.