 The bitterness would last for decades; in a 1999 interview, he reportedly said she "was an awful woman, I don't want to talk about her".Noakes refused to appear on a special edition of "Blue Peter" to celebrate its twentieth birthday in October 1978 because of his poor relationship with Baxter.Eventually he was persuaded to pre-film a message for the programme, otherwise Noakes would have been the only well-known presenter to not appear.