Graham Skidmore

Graham George Skidmore (22 September 1931 – 27 December 2021) was a British voice artist and game show announcer, best known for providing the voice-over for the television dating gameshow Blind Date on ITV from 1985 until 2002, in which host Cilla Black referred to him as "Our Graham". He was also known for the BBC comedy panel game Shooting Stars.

Early life Skidmore was born in West Bromwich in 1931. He grew up in London and carried out his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Career In 1959, after taking singing lessons, Skidmore successfully auditioned for the musical Marigold at the Savoy Theatre in London. He could be seen in a background role in the 1960 film The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, and also played a minor role in the 1961 film The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Host Cilla Black referred to him as "our Graham".

Skidmore also had a similar role as a voiceover artist on the BBC comedy panel game Shooting Stars with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, from 1993 to 2002, in which he introduced the show's contestants. Skidmore found work as a photographic model, and appeared on advertising posters and in television commercials, both in person and as a voiceover. Skidmore suffered from vascular malignancy and vascular dementia, which also affected his speech, during the last decade of his life, and spent his final years living in Kent.

He died on 27 December 2021,