End of the road for Noel Edmonds?

This week sees the start of the final series of Deal Or No Deal on Channel 4, the station say it is working on other projects with host Noel Edmonds. It is worth remebering that this is the show that brought back into the limelight a  man who has both a large number of  both fans and detcetors.
For 17 years between 1982 and 1999 Edmonds had a prescene on the BBC1 Saturday evening schedule. Moving from presenting kids show Saturday Swapshop he started with The Late Late Breakfast Show, a mix of music star interviews (Paul McCartney, Tom Jones and in what would be their last interview together ABBA) and audience particption. The show started off with weak ratings and changes were made for the next one with the main one being John Peel being dropped as co-host in favour of the much more youthful Mike Smith. The ratings then improved massively but there was problem with one of the regular slots, Give it a Whirl saw members of the public take part in stunts such as going down on a zip wire from a very tall height, but over the years an number of particpents had suffered from serious injury this culminated in 1986 in the tragic death of Micheal Lush who in practice for a stunt that involed bungee jumping from a box fell to his death. With the blame put on cost cutting execs the show was axed at once. For 1987 Noel's usually weekday quiz show was moved to Saturday for 1 year. 1988 saw the start of Noel's Saturday Roadshow, in this format each edition came from a different location, though this tended to be a BBC TV centre with Edmonds being joined by a special guest as co-host, for one example in an edition that was supposdly to be coming from a space station Les Dennis took on the role of an spaceman the show proved to be a success it paved the way for Edmonds biggest show yet.
Making it's debut in 1991 Noel's House Party was for much of it's run was a ratings bemoath. The show run on a diet of pranks and gunging. The biggest impact the show had  was the creation of the pink known as Mr Blobby whose pouplarity was such it had a Xmas No 1. Such was the pouplarity of the show Edmonds tried to launch 2 theme parks, but they failed amid much legal problems. The show itself ended in 1999 amid decling ratings and strained relations between Edmonds and BBC top brass.
Edmonds was in Telly exile for 6 years when in 2005 he strated to present DOND for Channel 4. The pairing seemed unlikely when you rember that the station's Brass Eye made Edmonds look a bit of fool talking about the made up drug  CAKE and the part of the brain known as Shatner's Basson. But DOND proved to be a great sucess and Edmonds would present 2 shows for Sky Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old  and Noel's HQ which saw Edmonds rail against red tape in a manner reminsct of US firebrand Glen Beck, both shows did not last long. So as DOND ends what now for Edmonds. Given some recent eccentric behaviour such as making some rather distasteful remarks about cancer, it may be a very long time before he is ever in the limelight again.