£776,000 for wife who stood by shamed Bough
TV PRESENTER Frank Bough left £776,135 to his wife who stood by him when he was embroiled in a sex and drugs scandal, probate records reveal.
Bough, who died aged 87 in October 2020, fronted the BBC sports show Grandstand for 15 years. He also co-hosted the early evening news magazine show Nationwide for a decade and presented the BBC’s first early morning programme Breakfast Time in 1983.
But his avuncular image was shattered in 1988 when it emerged that he had snorted cocaine with prostitutes while watching couples having sex – a habit that he blamed on the pressure of work.
Efforts to rehabilitate his career ended in 1992 when he was pictured leaving the flat of a prostitute who specialised in sadomasochism.
The disgraced presenter later expressed his regret at his behaviour, saying he had been ‘exceedingly stupid’.
Throughout it all, Nesta, his wife of 61 years, stayed with him. Probate records reveal that the father-of-three left his entire UK estate to her.