Sir Terry Wogan was the champion of the ignored middle people

Sir Terry, 77, passed away on Sunday after a short battle with cancer, and Gloria recounted the moment she was told of the sad news.

Sir Terry Wogan only realised he was dying three weeks ago, according to his friend Father Brian D’Arcy.

“I went over last Thursday and I am never as glad that I did, I just dropped everything and went over as he had often done for me over the years”, he said.

I WAS lucky enough to meet Sir Terry Wogan twice at The Bookstore in the Bury Street precinct in Abingdon where he signed two books “To the Major”.

The Catholic priest said Sir Terry’s decision to pull out of Children In Need in November was not necessarily to do with his cancer.

“He was loved by everybody, even in show business, which tends to be a catty one, yet I can’t recollect anyone in my group every being critical of him”.

He said: “Terry truly was a national treasure”.

David Cameron also paid tribute to Sir Terry, hailing him as “a wonderful human being” on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show.

He taught me so much about be on the radio and not being on the radio.

The Prime Minister added: “He has this fantastic sense of humour and then later, seeing what he did with Children In Need, and seeing that quite close up, just immensely impressive”.

“He was very intelligent and such a warm and friendly man”.

“If we all had 1% of what he had on the radio, we’d be 100% better”.

He explained: “I think alarms bells began to ring about three weeks ago”.

Evans had earlier dedicated Monday morning’s broadcast of his Radio 2 breakfast show to Wogan, describing him as his “radio dad”.

Bob Shennan, controller at Radio 2, said: “As the host of Wake Up To Wogan, Terry established himself as one of the greatest and most popular radio hosts this country has ever heard”.