Ukip deputy leader Paul Nuttall has denied being the actor who played Bungle the bear on 1970s and 1980s children's TV show Rainbow. Nuttall was forced to deny rumours that he had worn a bear suit to ...

UKIP's deputy leader has been forced to deny he starred as walking teddy bear Bungle in 70s kids’ TV show Rainbow after an internet prank. Paul Nuttall, MEP for Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria, ...

Paul Cullinan’s appearance on The Voice sparked viewers to campaign to bring back the Rainbow TV series (Picture: BBC) It seems people do not desert the characters they remember fondly from their ...

Ah, Rainbow, the exceptionally vibrant TV show that told amazing stories of a man who for some reason lived with a bear, a pink hippo and a weird zip-mouthed thing. It was all a bit odd if you stopped ...

Now that The X Factor has been packed back up into it’s sparkly festive box it’s time to unwrap the slightly more serious singing show on TV – The Voice. Back on the BBC to brighten up our January ...

IT was the beloved British children’s show that ran from 1972 to 1992 – but there was a dark side behind Rainbow. Conceived as Britain’s answer to Sesame Street, many will recall the popular ...

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Tom Jones, Will.i.am, Ricky Wilson and Rita Ora given rendition of Mustang Sally at BBC show’s auditions by man who played bear in long-running ITV series Contestants in the new series of The Voice ...

In the past, several stars from yesteryear have used ‘The Voice’ as an opportunity to have another crack at pop stardom… but we must admit that we were flummoxed to learn that among this year’s ...

As the pan pipe theme tune plays softly in the background, Bungle the bear is enraged at the thought of the family ordering “the usual”, branding the dad of the family “a traitor to the little boy who ...

A Merseyside entertainer who used to be Bungle on Rainbow failed to make the cut on The Voice – but made judge Ricky Wilson’s day. Paul Cullinan, who played Bungle between 1993 and 1996, had the ...