BREAKING NEWS: Veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost dies of a heart attack at 74
- Sir David Frost has died from a heart attack at the age of age of 74
- He had been giving a speech on the Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday
- Forced President Nixon to admit involvement in Watergate Scandal
- Has been described a 'fearsome interviewer' by David Cameron
By JAYMI MCCANN
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Veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost has died from a heart attack at the age of age of 74.
He had been giving a speech aboard the cruise ship the Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday night.
The BBC reported a statement from his family said: 'His family are devastated and ask for privacy at this difficult time.
Veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost has died of a heart attack at 74 Sir. Pictured with wife wife Carin
'A family funeral will be held in the near future and details of a memorial service will be announced in due course.'
Sir David Frost, who probably interviewed more world figures from royalty, politics, the Church, show-business and virtually everywhere else, than any other living broadcaster, was the most illustrious TV inquisitor of his generation.
He not only won virtually all the major television awards available, but his professional activities were so diverse that he was once described as 'a one-man conglomerate'.
His interview with the doomed American President 'Tricky Dicky' Richard Nixon in 1977 was a TV classic.
Mr Frost became famous after interviewing President Nixon. The politician was forced to admit that he had taken part in the infamous Watergate scandal
Former President Richard Nixon exhibited a range of expressions during his interview with David Frost
Frost quizzed the President on the Watergate Scandal that had emerged in the early 1970s .
An under pressure Nixon then mistakenly said: 'When the President does it, that means it's not illegal.'
Admitting he was part of the cover up, Nixon eventually conceded that he had let the American public down.
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The journalist and television presenter spent two decades as TV host of Through the
He is said to have been a 'fearsome' interviewer'. Pictured her with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
The 2008 historical drama Frost/Nixon, starring Michael Sheen, chronicled the run up to the Nixon interviews.
he film was a critical hit and was nominated for five Golden Globes and five Academy Awards.
Sir David was regularly scoffed at by fellow broadcasters for his allegedly non-aggressive style of questioning.
But he invariably had the last laugh because he almost always extracted more intriguing information and revealing reactions from his subjects than other far more acerbic broadcasters who boasted about their hard-hitting treatment of their 'victims'.
Colleague Barney Jones, who edited his Breakfast with Frost programme, told the BBC: 'David loved broadcasting, did it brilliantly for more than 50 years and was eagerly looking forward to a host of projects - including interviewing the prime minister next week - before his sudden and tragic death. We will all miss him enormously.'
Sir David Frost after receiving his knighthood with his wife and three sons
Television Presenter and Newscaster Sir David Frost with wife Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard at Ascot
Prime Minister David Cameron said: 'My heart goes out to David Frost's family. He could be - and certainly was with me - both a friend and a fearsome interviewer.'
From 2006-2012 he hosted the weekly programme Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English.
The journalist and television presenter also spent two decades as TV host of Through the Keyhole.
The journalist and television presenter also spent two decades as TV host of Through the Keyhole.
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