Jeremy Vine told his 723,3000 Twitter followers today that BBC Eggheads star Dave Rainford had passed away. The general knowledge whizz's death was marked on Jeremy's page with a touching message, Jeremy's post read: "I'm very sad to hear that one of the Eggheads has died.
Dave 'Tremendous Knowledge' Rainford, famous for being banned from pub quiz machines in Manchester, was the best company after a recording: always fun and sociable.
I never saw him angry or ungenerous, not once. "RIP." The Chase quizzer Paul Sinha also took to social media to pay tribute.
Paul penned: ""Devastated at the loss of my friend, David Rainford. Egghead, great bloke, great friend. We had blindingly good nights out mate.
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