Discarding the clerical collar, along with the traditional language and ritual of the Church, Mr Gumbel's energetic style was more reminiscent of a children's television presenter than a cleric.
She now runs two businesses and works as a BBC television presenter, as well as being a trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme.
Mr Cox, a former television presenter, is loquacious and intellectual, a fastidious dresser with a taste for outsized cufflinks, who spatters his conversation equally with French phrases and Anglo-Saxon oaths.
In part, this reflects the fact that some of the first rich people to back Labour came from the arts men like David Puttnam, a film maker, and Melvyn Bragg, a television presenter. (Both men are now peers.) But it also illustrates a keenness to cultivate opinion makers.
Appearing in a pre-recorded interview on Sunday's programme, the journalist and television presenter took part in a discussion on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher before talking about his illness.
Earlier this year Childline founder and television presenter Esther Rantzen said a commissioner was needed to protect young people from abuse and bullying.
Born in Portsmouth, she became a familiar face on television during a seven-year stint as a presenter of MTV Asia.
The country's first pop disc jockey, Sir Jimmy was also a seasoned television presenter, marathon runner, Mensa member, wrestler and fund-raiser.
Bothaina Kamel, a former television presenter, announced in April that she would be the first woman in Egypt's history to run for president.
"I think it's interesting because you know normally it's about the stars, about the main characters, " says Steven Gaetjen, a German television presenter who'll be compering the event.
Former Countdown television presenter Carol Vorderman, who is leading a Conservative task force into the subject, told BBC News that there was "no question" maths exams are easier than when she was at school.
Luton fans were in good heart after administrator Brendan Guilfoyle revealed a deal has been agreed with a consortium, fronted by television presenter Nick Owen, to buy the club.
Another speaker from the media world was television presenter Esther McVey, who is bidding to become a Tory MP.
One leading TV presenter has called it "lowest common denominator television", while a group called Smile You're On TV has called on viewers to place rubbish bins outside the offices of the channel screening the programme.
The late BBC Radio One DJ and television presenter abused adults and children over more than five decades, according to a Metropolitan Police report.
It is believed the television presenter and DJ may have abused many people - including young girls - over a 40-year period.
On Twitter, tributes came from the likes of England footballers Jack Wilshere and Rio Ferdinand, Dragon's Den entrepreneurs Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne and Deborah Meaden, snooker star Jimmy White, former prime minister's wife Sarah Brown, television presenter Ben Shephard and teenage diving star Tom Daley, whose father died of a brain tumour earlier this year.
Television presenter Kevin McCloud is asking for people's views on his grand design for a derelict former hospital site in Stroud.
On May 16th Yang Rui, a well-known presenter for the English-language service of Chinese state television, expressed support for the campaign in an astonishing rant on his microblog.
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