Tag: Celebrities

Joe-Warren Plant, born on 12 April 2002 in Blackpool, is a British actor best known for his role as Jacob Gallagher in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He has played Jacob since 2010, beginning his time on the show at the age of eight. His portrayal has earned him three nominations for Best Young Performance at the British Soap Awards in 2014, 2019, and 2021. Raised in Poulton-le-Fylde with his parents, Steph and Warren Plant, he developed an early interest in acting and was enrolled at Scream Theatre School in Blackpool from the age of four. He later attended Baines… Read more »

Tom Robinson, born on 25 May 1997 in Blackpool, is a television actor best known for his role as Ash Newman on the CBBC children’s series 4 O’Clock Club. He grew up in Thornton and attended Cardinal Allen High School in Fleetwood. In 2012, he was selected from over 900 hopefuls to play Ash, securing a main role in the popular CBBC show. Robinson starred alongside Khalil Madovi in 4 O’Clock Club, a series centred around school life and music, and later appeared in its spin-off series The 4 O’Clock Files. His character, Ash, was best friends with Josh and… Read more »

Christine McGuinness, born Christine Martin on 20 March 1988 in Blackpool, is an English model, television personality, and former beauty queen. She gained recognition as a cast member on The Real Housewives of Cheshire, appearing between 2018 and 2020, and has since featured on various television programmes, including The Real Full Monty and The Games. In 2021, she took part in a BBC documentary alongside her then-husband, Paddy McGuinness, to raise awareness about autism. Her early life was marked by challenges, including sexual abuse by a family member and her father’s struggle with heroin addiction. She pursued a career in… Read more »

Rosie Timpson, born in 1957 in Blackpool, is a British actress known for her work in television throughout the late 20th century. She is perhaps best recognised for her role as Miss Deloy in the 1989 episode The King of Clubs from Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Her television career includes appearances in popular British dramas and sitcoms. In 1992, she played Mary Toolan in A Touch of Frost, followed by a role as Maureen Wood in an episode of Peak Practice the next year. She also made guest appearances in sitcoms such as The Brittas Empire in 1991, where she played… Read more »

June Tripp, born June Howard-Tripp on 11 June 1901 in Blackpool, was a British-American actress best known for her work on stage and in silent films. Often credited simply as June Tripp, she primarily performed in revue theatre but also appeared in several films, most notably starring opposite Ivor Novello in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). In March 1929, she married John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde, and moved to Castle Wemyss. She was mentioned as “Topsy” in Inverclyde’s account of his travels aboard the steam yacht Beryl around the Mediterranean that… Read more »

Lesley Daine was born ‘Lesley Dainty’ on 20 May 1947 in Blackpool. She was an actress, best known for ‘Without a Clue’ (1988) and ‘The Family Way’ (1966), the latter being a film featuring music by Beatle Paul McCartney. The film also starred Sir John Mills with his daughter Hayley Mills. The two clips below show Lesley Daine appearing in the 1970s drama series ‘Within These Walls’. But she also appeared in ‘Coronation Street‘ in two roles: firstly in August 1976 as stripper Josie Steel; and she returned to the programme as Irene Sherratt, an old school friend of Audrey Potter, who attended… Read more »

Molly Florence Wright is an actress who was born 20 March 1996 in Blackpool. For her debut film Apostasy (2017), she was named Young British/Irish Performer of the Year in 2018 by the London Film Critics’ Circle and nominated for two British Independent Film Awards. On television, she is known for her role in the BBC drama ‘The A Word’ (2016–2020). Wright attended Blackpool Sixth Form College and took the Foundation Acting course at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA). She joined an extras agency and made her television acting debut when she starred in the BBC One… Read more »

Bunny May was born ‘Bernard Lawrence May’ in 1940 in Blackpool. He was an actor, perhaps best known for EastEnders (1985), Up Pompeii! (1969), Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (1973) and for the first episode of Going Straight (1985) (see full episode below). He was also in Coronation Street from September to October 1963 and played Ethel Tyson’s nephew Jim Pickup. He began his career as a teenager on BBC children’s television in the early to mid-1950s, but later moved into adult roles in series such as Emergency-Ward 10, The Chem. Lab. Mystery, The Liver Birds, Crown Court, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave… Read more »