{"id":291176,"date":"2023-09-24T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=291176"},"modified":"2023-09-24T22:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:19:56","slug":"football-tv-legend-des-lynam-now-real-life-dr-dolittle-making-animals-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/football-tv-legend-des-lynam-now-real-life-dr-dolittle-making-animals-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Football TV legend Des Lynam now ‘real life Dr Dolittle’ making animals ‘speak’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Des Lynam has become a "real life Dr Dolittle" – giving animals a voice in his transition from presenter to author.<\/p>\n

Before being succeeded by Gary Lineker, the 80-year-old became a football TV legend hosting Match of the Day as well as Sportsnight and Grandstand, to name just a few of his many gigs. He's not been seen on our TV screens for well over a decade.<\/p>\n

But he's still keeping busy in retirement – writing several animal-themed books where the characters can speak English. Parts one and two of Now Who's Talking? <\/i>hit the shelves in July.<\/p>\n

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Speaking about how it all came about, Lynam told Sussex World: \u201cIt never occurred to me about writing about animals. I was looking out of the window one day.<\/p>\n

"The two magpies who usually stood together were at opposite ends of the garden. I wondered if they\u2019d had a row. Obviously, we don\u2019t know how they communicate, so I made it up from there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI made them speak English obviously, and created some dialogue, that was the first one and it grew from there, doing other animals. I thought it was quite funny and hoped somebody else would."<\/p>\n

The former MOTD frontman has also written a farmyard version, Now Moo\u2019s Talking?<\/i>, a wildlife park edition, Now Zoo\u2019s Talking, <\/i>and a baby animal book, Now Coochie Coo\u2019s Talking<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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After someone suggested he get them published, Lynam sent them to the Beeb, who pointed him in the right direction.<\/p>\n

"Jonathan Martin, who was my Head of Sport at the BBC, asked me where I got that imagination from," he added. "And Dick Knight (ex-Brighton and Hove Albion chairman) joked \u2018If you\u2019re not careful you\u2019ll be rich again!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I stopped doing television, people often ask me, what do you do all day now? \u2018I say stare out of the window into space\u2019, and this is what that\u2019s produced."<\/p>\n

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