This is a subject that has cropped up over the years, but I can't find a dedicated thread - sorry if I've missed it. We have often said that wrestling was such an important part of British life that wrestlers cropped up all over the place, for example McManus on the Generation Game, Mick and Jackie on the Eamonn Andrews show.
It goes back further than the peak 1960 years though. In 1955, so that's before ITV wrestling started, Harry Brooks was on What's My Line. Lady Isabel Barnett eventually guessed right.
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I supose the producers decided to include Harry Brooks because in 1955 it was not mainstream enough for him to be recognized
If I recall correctly, she took her own life in an incident involving a bath and an electric fire. I was only very young but I remember the ladies in their best dresses and the gents in full evening dress. Eamonn Andrews hosted and the regulars were Lady Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Gilbert Harding and either David Nixon or Richard Murdoch. Much later the show came to ITV and Lee Bamber was one of the contestants. Penelope Keith hosted. I remember Acker Bilk as a guest panellist. His first question was, "What do you do for a job?"