Death in Paradise 2019 airs tonight (Thursday, February 14) at 9pm on BBC One with a new celebrity guest cast member. Angus Deayton, who is best known for presenting Have I Got News For You for over a decade, plays Martin Stow in tonight’s Death in Paradise. The Death in Paradise cast member may be best known as a presenter, but Angus Deayton has also worked as an actor since the 1980s.
Angus Deayton is a 63-year-old British actor and presenter who stars in tonight’s Death in Paradise.
Deayton is best known for presenting Have I Got News For You from 1990 to 2002 - and for the revelations about his private life that led him to step down from the show.
However, before and after his gig on the long-running news programme, he has worked consistently as an actor.
Along the way, he has appeared in a number of iconic comedies for the BBC, including Nighty Night, One Foot in the Grave and the first series of Blackadder.
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Angus Deayton plays Martin Stow in Death in Paradise (Image: BBC)
However, his first appearance as an actor on TV was in 1981 when he featured in an episode of Saturday morning kids' show Tiswas.
That same year, he appeared as the intriguingly-named Jumping Jew of Jerusalem in the second-ever episode of Blackadder.
His first
