Bobby Ball
Robert Harper, known as Bobby Ball, was an English comic, actor and singer. He was best known as a member of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, with Tommy Cannon. He starred in the fifth series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
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Robert Harper, known as Bobby Ball, was an English comic, actor and singer. He was best known as a member of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, with Tommy Cannon. He starred in the fifth series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Ball went on to star in various sitcoms and dramas including Last of the Summer Wine, Heartbeat and Not Going Out. In November 2019 he played the regular character Ray, stepdad to Joe Wilkinson’s character Simon, in The Cockfields.
Ball was born at Boundary Park General Hospital in Oldham, Lancashire, on 28 January 1944, to May and Bob Harper. Ball married his first wife, Joan Lynn, in 1964, with whom he had two sons, Robert and Darren, who are now a comedy double act in their own right. He married his second wife, Yvonne Nugent, in 1974, and they had a daughter Joanne in 1983. Ball and his wife lived in Lytham St Annes, Lancs, until his death.
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