Editing Harry Secombe (section)

==Later career==
Later in life, Secombe (whose brother [[Fred Secombe]] was a priest in the [[Church in Wales]], part of the [[Anglican]] Communion) attracted new audiences as a presenter of religious programmes, such as the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Songs of Praise]]'' and [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s ''[[Stars on Sunday (TV series)|Stars on Sunday]]'' and ''[[Highway (TV series)|Highway]]''. He was also a special programming consultant to [[Harlech Television]]<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,3604,471984,00.html |title=Sir Harry Secombe dies |work=The Guardian|date=11 April 2001 |access-date=4 June 2006}}</ref> and hosted a [[Thames Television]] programme in 1979 entitled ''Cross on the Donkey's Back''. In the latter half of the 1980s, Secombe personally sponsored a football team for boys aged 9–11 in the local West Sutton Little League, 'Secombes Knights'.

In 1990, he was one of a few to be honoured by a second appearance on ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'', when he was surprised by [[Michael Aspel]] at a book signing in a London branch of WH Smith. Secombe had been a subject of the show previously in March 1958 when [[Eamonn Andrews]] surprised him at the BBC Television Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welsh Icons News {{!}} Harry Secombe |url=https://welshicons.org/cymrupedia/famous-welsh/harry-secombe/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=welshicons.org}}</ref>