Jeremy Paxman

The veteran broadcaster will be stepping down after almost three decades of hosting University Challenge after learning he had the neurological disease. Mr ...

One of his doctors observed TV quiz show host Jeremy Paxman's on University Challenge, and realised that he might have Parkinson's disease before the ...

The former Newsnight presenter said the diagnosis came when he was in hospital after collapsing while walking his dog. One of the doctors said he had noticed ...

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The University Challenge host, Jeremy Paxman, opens up about his Parkinson's diagnosis in a one-off ITV programme.

Jeremy Paxman is one of the UK's most respected journalists after a TV career spanning decades. The former Newsnight presenter, 72, announced his decision ...

The University Challenge host, Jeremy Paxman, opens up about his Parkinson's diagnosis in a one-off ITV programme.

The TV legend won't be cajoled into crying as he investigates his illness and films his final series of University Challenge – but he does give us ...

It does so with the clinical precision that you would expect and with a solid sense of humour that comes as more of a surprise. Though it is billed as a personal film, Paxman is too professional to give much away. There is a brief moment in which he gets to sit down again with Michael Howard, the recipient of his most famous grilling, to show what a bulldog he could be in his prime as a political interviewer. His old Spitting Image puppet is wheeled out at the pub, and the brief archive clips serve as a reminder of a past he is now leaving behind. He is a wonderfully unsentimental documentarian, insisting that he is not participating in the film to elicit sympathy and refusing to be cajoled into “blubbing” on camera. Paxman explains the “Parkinson’s mask”, a stiffness of facial muscles that make it harder to smile, for example, or to raise your eyebrows.

Jeremy Paxman presented the new ITV documentary Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson's, about his Parkinson's diagnosis last year.

“Quite a shock. Another upset viewer said: “The voice and intellect still seem as present as ever, but now I see what is meant by this 'Parkinson's mask'.” A third said: “The voice and intellect still seem as present as ever, but now I see what is meant by this 'Parkinson's mask'.” The documentary followed the broadcaster as he chatted to other celebrities living with the illness as well as the leading experts in the area. Though still as feisty as ever.” In A&E, Paxman described how his doctor told him he thought he was suffering from the illness, after he had noticed the University Challenge host was less expressive during the programme, as a result of ‘Parkinson’s mask’.