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It's hard to think of much in life that’s more down to earth than the comfy jumpers that Noel Edmonds became famous for.

But when he’s not hosting Ch4 show Deal or No Deal , he is operating on a far more, well, spiritual plane.

In the past he talked about having two orbs of energy bouncing on his shoulders containing the souls of his dead parents.

And he spoke about how he got his life under control using cosmic ordering, after asking the planets for help.

His latest alternative take on life involves electro-magnetism and how we’re messing up the world with all the electricity, phone signals and Wi-Fi wafting around our ears.

In an extraordinary interview, the 66-year-old puts many of the planet’s woes down to an electro-magnetic imbalance around us.

“Everything is about energy,” says the former king of Saturday night TV.

“We’re surrounded by electro mist, fog and smog. We’re covering ourselves in the wrong sorts of electro-magnetism.

“These idiot politicians who talk about climate change, for goodness sake, do they really think little us can do anything about it? No, of course not.

“The biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it’s not Aids, it’s electro smog.

"The Wi-Fi and all of the systems that we are introducing into our lives are destroying our own natural electro-magnetic fields. All you are is energy, remember that.”

The TV star is so concerned, he has splashed out £2,000 on a gadget based on research by NASA to fix the problem.

“There is a device called an EMPpad and I use it eight minutes a day – it has changed my life,” says Noel.

“It recalibrates all the blood cells and readjusts the electro-magnetism in your body. Think of a yoga mat, connected to a computer – it provides you with pulsed electro-magnetism.

“It’s a brilliant technology, it is not cheap, it costs £2,000. It removes pain and reduces stress and people tell me I don’t look 66.”

Noel is giving a rare interview to promote his new online radio service – called Positively Happy – which he says will help people with insomnia and assist others to remain upbeat.

Happiness and positivity fascinate him and he is planning to publish a book next year on the subject, which even goes so far as explaining death.

Noel says: “A lot of the mind, body and spirit brigade think you can think your way to being positive, you can’t. It is an important element but if you are physically in a negative energy situation you cannot possibly be healthy.

“If you want to be happy you need to think of yourself as a container of energy. There is a universal energy, yes of course, it embraces us.

“When you appreciate this, life becomes a lot more exciting. You don’t live life, life lives you. There isn’t such a thing as death, it’s just departure. You cannot die. It’s been known for a very long time.

“The energy leaves your container but it has to go somewhere. You cannot destroy energy. My energy will return to where it came from – part of a massive, incomprehensible universal web of energy.”

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Noel, whose long career has included hosting hit shows such as Telly Addicts, Noel’s House Party, and Swap Shop, has a home near Bristol where he lives with his third wife, Deal or No Deal make-up artist Liz Davies, who is 20 years his junior.

Previously, he was married to Gillian Slater for a decade and then between 1986 and 2004 he was married to Helen Soby, the mother of his four daughters.

Today he’s talking from his home in France, where he is taking a break.

Having seen what the TV industry can do to people he is concerned about one of his successors as host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, Chris Evans.

He’s worried that by hosting Top Gear – despite telling Noel he wouldn’t be following in Jeremy Clarkson’s footsteps – Chris is spreading himself too thinly.

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Noel says: “It’s interesting. I was a guest on Chris’s boat at the Monaco Grand Prix and we had a chat. Chris said he wouldn’t touch Top Gear with a barge pole.

“He said how tired he was, and he did look tired. And so I was stunned when within weeks he not only had shown interest but accepted the job.

“I just hope he’s not taking on too much. He’s a brilliant talent.

“He’s also a mercurial talent in a Kenny Everett and Clarkson mould.

“He will need to be managed and supported otherwise he could just burn out and make some shocking mistake.

“I hope it works out for him. I’m a big fan of his.”

Despite having talked about buying the BBC – something he would still like to do – the multi-millionaire is a critic of the corporation.

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He thinks it is still too bloated and needs to be cut down or risks being “crushed by Apple”, suggesting two radio stations is enough.

And he believes the way Clarkson was treated during the Top Gear saga was a complete fiasco.

“It was just yet another example of extraordinarily bad management that wouldn’t be tolerated in a private company,” says Noel.

“It is difficult to think of a better way of handling something more badly.

“You’ve got the big wigs saying no one is bigger than the BBC and they pull the show, denying the viewers the chance to see whatever they’d shot.

“Then they cobbled it together into a final episode that didn’t really work as it didn’t have the elements people love.

“The good news for Top Gear fans, of which I am one, is now we’ll have two shows in place of one. But as management, it was right up there with running a cruise liner on to a heap of rocks.”

Noel, born in Ilford, North East London, began his broadcasting career on Radio Luxembourg in the late-60s.

He soon moved to Radio 1 and had his own show by 1970.

Noel presented the flagship Breakfast Show between 1973 and 1978. As well as hosting Top of the Pops on TV, he starred in kids’ show Swap Shop on BBC1 in the 70s and early 80s.

And he became one of the Beeb’s biggest names as he presented prime-time Saturday night shows throughout the 80s and 90s.

But some will never forgive him for creating the pink and yellow disaster zone that was his sidekick Mr Blobby.

Noel has been on Deal or No Deal for almost a decade, but his next contract with Ch4 is yet to be negotiated.

He admits: “I have no idea about its future. But we have now done 10 years and will have our anniversary show in October.”

The channel has enough episodes to last until next summer, so there is still plenty of time for bosses to offer a new deal.

And they’d be stupid to ignore a TV legend who the current generation are still borrowing ideas from (according to the legend himself).

“I’m a big fan of Ant and Dec, I think they’re excellent presenters.”

He adds: “They’ve been honest, they’ve plundered the House Party archive and created Takeaway. I don’t have a problem with that, I take it as a compliment.

“When I look at some of things I used to do with the BBC and currently at C4, I’m pretty comfortable with the space that I’ve occupied. I have been very fortunate and worked with good people.”

For Noel, his success is all about balance and that positivity.

On the other hand, evil acts will bring about bad karma and negative energy – just like that being experienced by US dentist Walter Palmer, who recently killed Cecil the lion.

Noel says: “I regard that as a massive negative. The individual concerned has to have a look at his negativity system.

"He’s probably very happy destroying life, many others are happy shooting grouse or others snort cocaine and it makes them happy.

“But don’t forget in the UK every single week children are killed by their parents or carers – let’s have a sense of priority.

“People who do these things have an imbalance in their energy system. Positivity can be measured scientifically.

“The man who shot the lion, this is not a threat, this is science, will have karma.

"Something is going to happen to that guy because what he did was so utterly negative. The energy he poured out left such a big gap, negative energy will pour into him.

“Every single human being can achieve a perfect vibrational balance between their positive and negative energy. I believe it is possible to retune people.”