- The doyen of jet-setting journalists, he was memorably parodied in a Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Absurde, n'est-il pas? (1969) sketch which featured an island full of Whickers, sipping martinis and waiting for the "inevitable interview".
- A captain in the Devonshire Regiment of the British Army in the Second World War, he directed the Army Film and Photo Unit with the British 8th Army and US 5th Army.
- Attended Haberdashers' Aske's School, London.
- He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to broadcasting.
- He lived with his partner of over 30 years, Valerie Kleeman, in the Channel Islands.
- Although Whicker claimed to have been born in 1925, his school records show he was actually born in 1921.
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