John "Deeksie" Deeks (born 1 May 1951) is an Australian former television, radio presenter and the long-time voice over artist on

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for the

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(known as the 'voice of Channel 7'), where he has been working since 1975 based in

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Biography

For many years Deeks was the announcer who said "Come on Down!" on the Australian version of game show ''

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'', although frequently the program's host

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is erroneously named as the person to voice the phrase. Deeks was also the announcer on game show ''

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'' and presented the '' Tattslotto'' lottery draw for many years. He has acted as announcer on several popular programs, making his voice and style highly recognisable, leading to his being cast as voice over artist in recreations of game shows in some dramatic works. He is best known as the announcer of the now-defunct '' Wheel of Fortune'' (which he joined in 1984), on the

. During Deeks' time on Wheel of Fortune he would travel to

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where the show was taped between 1981 and 1996, (as did the show's host John Burgess who would travel from his home in

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. Hostess and letter-turner

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lived in Adelaide) each weekend to work on the show and often used his comedic skills to entertain the studio audience between takes. Deeks departed '' Wheel of Fortune'' in 1996 to host ''

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'', taking over from

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. After ''Family Feud'' was cancelled later that year, Deeks returned to his old gig as ''Wheel of Fortunes voice-over man, which continued until the show's cancellation on 28 July 2006, at which point Deeks was offered a position at the

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, which he accepted. In addition to providing the audience warm-up for ''

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'', ''Wheel of Fortune'' and ''

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'', "Deeksie"' is a

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for

stations across Australia, voicing trails, promos and ratings & announcements. He also voices commercials for Australian retailers such as ''

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''. Deeks is also a former co-host of radio program ''Family Counsellor'' on 3UZ. He also broadcast on 3DB. He also does the introduction to

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's podcast TOFOP. He has

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. He later has clarified that he is

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