CATEGORY: Non Fiction / Well Being

Radio One, Top of the Pops, MulitColoured Swapshop, Noel’s House Party, and Deal or No Deal……just some of the highlights of Noel Edmonds’ career. Two failed marriages, an horrific helicopter crash, a death on his major TV show, and a mass of media attention about his career and his lovelife….just some of the lowlights of Noel Edmonds’ career.

Yet, he still smiles warmly from the front cover of his new book, and declares that it’s all down to the way the Cosmos rules you’re your life.

He is a positively happy man, as the title confirms. But reading the contents one also gets an insight into what kept him ticking through the good and bad times. It could be summarised as an honest and very positive approach to life.
Some might regard it as Noel’s Sermon, because he has the confidence to speak openly and directly, while using his own experiences as illustrations. Some, like telling his parents that he was not going to university in favour of a job at Radio Luxembourg, knowing his father’s desire to see him take up a place he himself had been denied, show us how he had both determination and sensitivity from the start.
The media tried to stir up a campaign, portraying him as a failed star who has picked up some wacky cult belief. Churches were whipped up into a frenzy of condemnation about his views of prayer versus destiny. But, ironically, it was the serialisation of the book in a newspaper which he once sued, that gave the public a chance to make up their own minds. Yes, he’d picked up the theories of Barbel Mohr’s ‘Cosmic Ordering Service’, but it’s clear that Edmonds has used those ideas to put his own lifelong views into some kind of shape.
Again some readers might scorn him as a ‘lucky man’ milking his career yet further. But again close examination of his book will simply leave the reader with the words ‘common sense’.
While we get some glimpses of the highs and lows of his career, this is not the Noel Edmonds Autobiography. There are as many questions raised as are answered about his private life. But I’m sure he would insist the book is not solely about him and his achievements or views, but as much about ‘you’ the reader.
He suggests ways to take a fresh look at your life and approach to it. All very positive. But he asks questions of the reader that may require some strict honesty on your part. The book ends with twenty five tips that could well at the least lift a few spirits and, at best, turn around a few lives. Not bad for the man who lives with Mr Blobby as a demon on his shoulder.
But he can live with that, content in the knowledge that he has mananged to entertain millions, and is now at it again with Deal or No Deal.