Overview

• TalkTV announced on August 4 that Whale had died peacefully in a Kent hospice after battling stage four kidney cancer.
• His wife Nadine Lamont-Brown said he slipped away gently with a smile on his face, describing a beautiful and serene passing.
• In May he ceased treatment and in July recorded his final Tales of the Whales podcast from hospice, signing off with “Au revoir, not goodbye.”
• Over six decades he shaped UK radio and television, famously pioneering the late-night shock-jock phone-in format in the early 1970s.
• After his initial 2000 kidney cancer diagnosis he founded Kidney Cancer UK in 2006 and was awarded an MBE in 2024 for his services to broadcasting and charity.