Looking tired and withdrawn, Dale Winton accompanies his friends on one final night out.
The CCTV footage – the last images of the tragic TV star – were taken at a local restaurant on Saturday evening.
Four days later the 62-year-old was found dead at his £3,000 a month rented home in the North London suburb of Whetstone.
Police are treating the death as ‘unexplained’ but not suspicious.
In security camera footage obtained by MailOnline, he enters the restaurant at 9.52pm after politely holding the door open for his friend.
Wearing a light blue baseball cap, with a matching jacket, jeans, a blue and white stripe polo shirt and trainers, the famous presenter goes largely unnoticed by the other diners.
Looking tired and withdrawn, Dale Winton (circled) accompanies his friends on one final night out. The CCTV footage – the last images of the tragic TV star – were taken at a local restaurant on Saturday evening
Four days later the 62-year-old was found dead at his £3,000 rented home in the North London suburb of Whetstone. Police are treating the death as ‘unexplained
In the security camera footage obtained by MailOnline, he enters the restaurant at 9.52pm after politely holding the door open for his friend
After a few seconds he is shown over to a corner table where they stayed until shortly after 11pm.
A waiter who served him said: ‘He’d come here a few times over the last couple of weeks. He was a nice guy, very down-to-earth and polite.
‘He was here on Saturday night with two friends. They were here for a few hours.
A waiter who served him said: ‘He’d come here a few times over the last couple of weeks. He was a nice guy, very down-to-earth and polite
‘Dale and the two other men were dressed very casually and to be honest nobody seemed to recognise him.
‘It’s so sad that he has died. He’d not been living in Whetstone very long, in fact not many people knew he had moved here.
‘Although he’d not been here very long, he made a good impression. He was a gentleman.’
Winton recently sold his grand townhouse in Regent’s Park in central London and moved out on March 23 to the suburbs.
He rented a five-bedroom, semi-detached house in Whetstone, 10-miles north, which backs on to a park and is set just off the busy High Road opposite a bus stop.
The presenter’s silver Range Rover – complete with personalised number plate – remains on the driveway beyond the property’s locked gates.
Winton (pictured in 2015) spent several hours at the restaurant and although he had not lived in Whetstone, north London, more than month, had already made a ‘good impression’ on locals.
Winton moved to his five bedroom semi-detached house in Whetstone (above) on March 23 after selling his grand townhouse in Regent’s Park in central London
Winton sold his house in Regent’s Park for £2.6 million and had voiced fears about his debts to friends
Although a far cry from the glitz and glamour of central London, Winton had started making Whetstone his home.
Kelly McRae, 42, who runs local coffee and cake shop The Daily Bread said the star popped in two weeks ago.
She said: ‘He was on good form. He came in with another man. They sat in and had a coffee each and were chatting quite happily.
‘We get famous people in here quite regularly so I don’t really get star-struck but I recognised who he was straight away.
‘I was surprised to see him because I’d no idea that he’d moved to the area.
‘But he was a lovely bloke who seemed to be in a relaxed, happy mood.
‘It was such a shame to hear that he died. He was a popular guy and was just as nice in real life as he comes across on television.’
The police were called to his home just after 4pm on Wednesday and are at this stage treating his death as ‘unexplained’ but not suspicious.
Neighbours told how three ambulance first responder cars and an ambulance also attended.
Although a far cry from the glitz and glamour of central London, Dale had started making Whetstone his home. Kelly McRae, 42, who runs local coffee and cake shop The Daily Bread said the star popped in two weeks ago. Pictured: On Loose Women in June 2017
The police were called to his home just after 4pm on Wednesday and are at this stage treating his death as ‘unexplained’ but not suspicious. Neighbours told how three ambulance first responder cars and an ambulance also attended
Winton had kept a low profile in recent years after struggling with his health. Pictured: With dear friend Cilla Black
Next door neighbour Evelyn Sawers, 68, said: ‘Dale had only been living there about a month.
‘Occasionally I’d see him on his door step and he’d say ‘hello’ but other than that I didn’t see much of him.
‘On Wednesday there were three first responder cars and an ambulance plus a lot of police and I wondered what had happened.
‘There was a tall blonde woman by his front door talking to a policeman. She might have been a relative or a friend.
‘It wasn’t until I saw the news that I realised Dale had died.
‘It’s a real shame as he seemed a nice man. I recognised him from the television.’
Amanda Shayle, Winton’s devastated cousin – a therapist – broke down as she said how she wished she could have helped the troubled star.
The pair were very close growing up and shared similar tragedies such as losing their parents at a young age and found common ground as only children.
‘I kind of realise now how close I was to Dale in terms of personality type – it is so sad that he didn’t reach out to me,’ she told Mail Online.
Amanda Shayle, Winton’s devastated cousin – a therapist – broke down as she said how she wished she could have helped the troubled star
The pair were very close growing up and shared similar tragedies such as losing their parents at a young age and found common ground as only children. ‘I kind of realise now how close I was to Dale in terms of personality type – it is so sad that he didn’t reach out to me’
Ms Shayle said Winton’s mother Shirley (pictured) had suffered depression for many years and relied heavily on her son for support: ‘She used to phone Dale a lot, saying “come home, come home, I need you”’
‘I just wish I could have spoken to him, like my mother tried to do with his mother,’ Ms Shayle (above) told Mail Online
‘He was a lovely man, he had many difficult times.
‘When Shirley [his mother] died, I was too young to help him. I was 15 or 16. My mother was so close to Shirley and we moved to London a month after she died. If we had got to London earlier, then Shirley might still be alive.
‘I just wish I could have spoken to him, like my mother tried to do with his mother.’
Amanda said she idolised her cousin, who was five years older than her and loved the attention.
‘Dale loved being in the public eye. As a person he was so fun to be with. He was my famous cousin and I completely idolised him. He was so generous – he used to have a stack of records and he gave me so many of them.’
But she said the celebrity was battling a number of issues and never recovered from the death of his mother.
‘He always had a weight problem and it must have driven him crazy when he was injured.
Amanda said Shirley was very reliant on Dale: ‘She used to phone Dale a lot, saying “come home, come home, I need you”.
It was hard for a young man, he was trying to work, he couldn’t always get home. The one time he didn’t get home…’
As he grew more famous, he relied more on his famous friends than family: ‘He had his friends in the media who supported him – his work colleagues became his everything.
‘But he was in a very dark place, having to sell his house and the cost of running it,’ she said.