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Bobby Ball naming returned for the 1976–1978 editions, the last of which was title sponsored by Miller High Life. [6] Miller's sponsorship continued through the 1983 edition. The race then had three different title sponsors for its final three editions: Stroh's , [ 7 ] Dana , [ 8 ] and Circle K .
Ball was born at Boundary Park General Hospital in Oldham, Lancashire, on 28 January 1944, [2] to May (née Savage) and Bob Harper. [3] [4] He attended Crompton House C of E school, Shaw, Oldham, and briefly studied Shipping Management at Wigan Mining & Technical College [2] before going to work in a factory as a welder, where he also met his future partner in comedy, Thomas Derbyshire (Tommy ...
Cannon and Ball were an English double act comprising Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, who met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire. [1] They started as singers working the pubs and clubs of Greater Manchester and switched to comedy after being told comics earned an extra £3 a night. They continued to work as a comic ...
Thomas Derbyshire (born 27 June 1938), known professionally as Tommy Cannon, is an English comic, actor and singer.He is best known as the straight man of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, until Bobby Ball's death in 2020, in TV programmes such as The Cannon and Ball Show.
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Bobby Ball: Robert Harper 1944–2020 English comedian and actor (Cannon and Ball) Carl Ballantine: Meyer Kessler 1917–2009 American magician, comedian and actor Kaye Ballard: Catherine Balotta 1925–2019 American actress, comedienne and singer Yak Ballz: Yashar Zadeh 1982– American rapper Charli Baltimore: Tiffany Lane 1974–
The Cockfields is a British television sitcom created by Joe Wilkinson and David Earl, and produced by Yellow Door Productions for Gold.It aired over two series from 12 November 2019 until 12 November 2021, including a Christmas special, for a total of 10 episodes.
It starred Timothy Spall, wearing a fat suit for the title role, [1] Bobby Ball, Aisling Loftus and Barry Austin. The plot is loosely based on a real-life event when Britain's then self-styled 'Fattest Man' Jack Taylor was defeated in a 'weigh off' by Barry Austin in the 2001 television documentary The Fattest Men in Britain. [2] [3]