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Surviving Spike - The Fringe Edinburgh Festival Hey all, news is out that Michael is on the list at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The theatre production of Surviving Spike is making its way up north to one of the worlds largest Arts festival. The Festival begins on the 3rd of August and runs to the 25th August. Programmes have now been released, so [...] |
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Channel 4 Programme Well, I’m pretty sure a fair amount of people saw the programme last night. I was going to steer clear from the subject, as I expected it to be a bit one sided, but I guess the fella who presented it tried to keep a balance. There were things that could have been said but weren’t, [...] |
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Redesign - New Stuff Yes, you have come to the right place even though the website has had a dramatic facelift. I noticed the blog in browsers such as FireFox and Opera was broken in many different parts so it spurred me on to do a site redesign. The other site was also built in tables (techy bit) wheras the new [...] |
Michael Barrymore Biography
Michael Ceiran Parker was born on May 4th 1952 in Bermondsey, London.
Michael grew up with a dream to be an entertainer, and in 1972, Michael joined Butlins as a Red Coat.
Michael then went on to doing shows in clubs. This proved to be a difficult time for Michael, but he carried on regardless.
Michael Parker became Michael Barrymore at the request of The Actors Union and Billy George. The Georges became Michaels managers and through them, plenty of bookings were coming Michaels way.
Michael would send home money to his proud mother, he wanted to buy his mum a new house with his wages, but Mrs Parker was happy where she was and very proud of her son.
Michael’s big break came one Saturday evening on the talent show, New Faces. Michael won the show and was later offered to join Russ Abbot’s Television Mad House. This soon followed with Michaels first TV show, “The Michael Barrymore Show”.
In 1987, Michael made his first episode of “Strike It Lucky”, the show became so successful, that he went on to make 9 other episodes. From this show, his career snowballed. In the 90’s, Michael would sweep the board with awards such as the British Comedy Awards, The Royal Television Society Awards and The National Television Award for Best Entertainment Presenter.
Michaels other popular shows included, My Kind Of Music, My Kind Of People, Strike It Rich, Barrymore and Kids Say The Funniest Things.
Michael is still hard at it in New Zealand where he has recently picked up another award for 2005 Rielly Comedy Award at The Variety Artists Club of New Zealand.
