![]() ![]() "Nonetheless, you can't avoid it now, even if you don't watch TV, you'll always see a celebrity doing something on the news or on the front of a newspaper. "Lee, the producer, is much more into celebrity than I am," he continues. "When I'm not writing a show I don't watch any television, and I never read a Heat magazine. Given the celebrity-obsessed nature of his comedy, you might think Kevin spends all his waking hours with his head buried in Heat magazine, but that's not the case. Kevin will play Gordon Ramsay in most episodes, a character he says he loves slipping into, while other famous faces include Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty, Griff Rhys Jones and lots of others, although the 28-year-old, who last year completed a film with Marianne Faithful called Irina Palm, won't give any more names away as he wants to keep the series' contents a surprise. The forthcoming Kevin Bishop Show has a lot in common with Star Stories in that Kevin will be impersonating a host of famous people, but while the latter dealt with just one tale over its 30 minutes, Kevin's own show is much more fast-paced, featuring a massive 42 sketches in just under half an hour. "That is a danger with a lot of actors that they get so sucked into being other characters that they forget who they are themselves, but it's a lot of fun." It's nice because you don't have to spend any time being yourself. "We use almost exactly the same crew for both shows, and it's the same production company that make both programmes," he says, adding that he's spent all day impersonating Elton John. He went straight from filming his own series to working on the ITV spoof show, but maintains his constant grafting is not due to him being a workaholic, but more about logistics. If it goes wrong, that's me finished!"Īs we chat, Kevin reveals he's on set, filming the third series of Star Stories. "It's called The Kevin Bishop Show as well, so it seems like I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. "I'm really excited about it, but really terrified at the same time because it's such an enormous thing," he says. Throughout the run, Kevin performed gross impersonations of Simon Cowell, George Michael, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Andrew Lloyd Webber among others, and thanks to the success of that, he now finds himself with his own series, The Kevin Bishop Show ( Channel 4, Friday). The series, which featured Kevin and a host of other comic talents, poked fun at the rich and famous. Not only that, he's managed to keep a low profile off-screen, admitting a trip to the cinema is as wild as his life gets.Īfter years of straight acting with small roles in series such as Silent Witness, Casualty and various European independent films, he found a new audience with Star Stories. As one of the main characters in kids TV institution Grange Hill (he played nice guy Sam Spalding for two years in the mid-90s) and the star of 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island, he found considerable success as a child actor.īut while other youths with a similar CV may have gone off the rails, or faded into obscurity, Kevin has gone from strength to strength, completing a wide and varied body of work. KEVIN BISHOP is something of a rarity in showbusiness. ![]()
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