Plates of foam were on the menu when Tiswas stars gathered at a Birmingham pub for the unmasking of the legendary Phantom Flan Flinger. Throughout the Phantom’s time on Tiswas, the character was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flan flinger: Chris Tarrant with Sally James and Lenny Henry - ATV/ITV/Shutterstock When Chris Tarrant looks back on a ...

Great grandad Benny Mills didn’t over-egg his 80th birthday. But he still ended up with a custard pie in his face. Yet the Small Heath born pensioner barely batted an eye-lid – because during his ...

Younger Coventry City fans may know television’s Chris Tarrant as the host of ITV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? But back in the day before the now 73-year-old was travelling the world ...

In 1980, I won the TV equivalent of a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Yes, I made it onto the set of Tiswas, the anarchic Saturday morning TV show that posh parents refused to let ...

“The Phantom Flan Flinger was told he couldn’t throw the custard pie in people’s faces but had to place it there. “And the buckets of water had to have the temperature measured so it wasn’t too hot or ...

Chris Tarrant has admitted there's 'no way' he could have gotten away with his hazardous antics on 1970s series Tiswas, if it were to air in the present today. The TV presenter, 75, who fronted the ...