You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

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.