It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

In 2006 he played the role of the narrator in the UK tour of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show. From 1974 until the mid-80s Aspel also presented a three-hour weekday mid-morning music and chat programme on Capital Radio in London
In 1977 Aspel appeared with a number of other newsreaders and presenters in a song-and-dance routine ("There ain't Nothing Like a Dame") on The Morecambe and Wise Show. Aspel married Anne Reed a TV scriptwriter in 1962 and they had twin children and divorced in 1967.