Jimmy Tarbuck

James Joseph Tarbuck OBE is an English comedian, singer, actor, entertainer and game show host. He was a host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the mid-1960s. He is also known for leading ITV’s Live From Her Majesty’s and subsequent incarnations during the 1980s.

About Jimmy Tarbuck in brief

Summary Jimmy TarbuckJames Joseph Tarbuck OBE is an English comedian, singer, actor, entertainer and game show host. He was a host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the mid-1960s. He is also known for leading ITV’s Live From Her Majesty’s and its subsequent incarnations during the 1980s. In 2008, he co-hosted, alongside Emma Bunton, an edition of ITV1’s variety show For One Night Only.

He appeared on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories on 25 May 2012, while on 3 December that year he was invited to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Variety Performance. In February 2020, Tarbuck revealed that, the day after his 80th birthday, he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.