Enjoy Celebrity Radio’s Bobby Ball Life Story Interview…
Bobby Ball is a British Comedy legend most famous for his partnership with Tommy Cannon.
Born in Oldham, he was in the business as a child. As he got older he thought he should get a “proper job” and so that’s exactly what he did.
He went to work in a factory to work as a welder and it was here that he met his future partner, Thomas Derbyshire.
Bob did some singing on the weekends and asked Tom if he would like to go with him one weekend. From there the act developed gradually.
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By the end of the seventies they had toured the pubs and clubs enough to be in the right place at the right time to end up with their own TV Series.
More recently he’s had massive TV success with sitcoms and dramas including Last of the Summer Wine, Heartbeat, Mount Pleasant and Not Going Out.
In 2005, Ball took part in the fifth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.
In 2016 he’s on tour with his new play ‘The Dressing Room’. They’re in Darlington 15-17th & County Durham on 24th September 2016.
Bob had two sons Robert and Darren from his first marriage to Joan which ended in 1968.
He then married Yvonne in 1971 and to complete the family, their daughter Joanne was born. Robert and Darren also have their own comedy/musical duo and work all over the country. Their own website can be seen here.
By 1985 Bob was seeing parts of himself that he didn’t like very much. Whilst starring in pantomime in Bradford, he spoke to the theatre chaplain, Max Wrigley about his life and his worries. He told Max that he felt as though he had everything, yet had nothing. He felt empty inside.
As much as he had never seemed like enough, he was drinking heavily, spending a lot of time with different women and getting into a lot of fights. Basically, he knew that he wasn’t a very nice person to be around and he felt dirty.
Interview by Alex Belfield for Celebrity Radio 3rd August 2016.
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