TV star planning a New Zealand move

is right to make a fresh start in a new place.”

The move comes after Channel 4 axed his afternoon game show Deal Or No Deal after 11 years.

But bosses have commissioned five special editions of the show each year – presented from diverse places such as a jetliner and a viewer’s home.

The former Noel’s House Party star also has several other new TV projects in the pipeline, including a Saturday night programme called Cheap, Cheap Cheap, featuring comic Alan Carr; another called Sell Or Swap and a third – a big money game show.

Noel, who lives just outside Bristol and also has a home in France, has hit the headlines over the past few years for his controversial and eccentric behaviour. Earlier this year he caused outrage after suggesting a cancer sufferer’s ill-health was caused by “negative energy”. He made the comments while promoting the benefits of a £2,300 electronic box that he claimed “tackles cancer”.

He told ITV’s This Morning he used the EMPpad to cure himself of prostate cancer.

He has also launched an online station, Positivity Radio, which claims to help plants grow, as well as one called Positively Pets which helps cats and dogs with behavioural problems.

Meanwhile, he is also setting u up a cosmetics business w with Liz, 47, a professional make-up artist.

Her range of products i includes applications which “harness the power of posit tivity to make people look and f feel good”.

Noel first found fame as a R Radio 1 DJ in the 1970s – moving into television with shows including Multicoloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops, Top Gear, The L Late, Late Breakfast Show and Noel’s House Party.

At it peak in the 1980s, Noel’s House Party pulled in 15 million viewers.

He is drawn by both the climate and the sense of space and spiritualism PAL ON NOEL’S REASONS FOR QUITTING BRITAIN