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Kevin Connelly

July 25, 2011 By

Kevin Connelly

Kevin is a leading impressionist and after dinner speaker. He was one of the stars of BBC2′s highly acclaimed Dead Ringers TV series as well as the original Radio 4 series. His impressions of public figures including Andrew Marr, David Dimbleby, Gordon Brown and Fabio Capello are uncannily accurate. His many credits include Sports Review of the Year, It’s Just Not Cricket with Rory Bremner, The Pavilion End and Double Take. He is in great demand for corporate events and sportsmen’s dinners.

Born in Middlesbrough, Kevin found fame while still at school, mimicking his fellow students and, of course, his teachers. As his ‘turns’ became more popular, he gained confidence and included a few leading personalities into his repertoire. While working as restaurant manager in his brother-in-law’s hotel near Thirsk, he would entertain his customers at the end of the evening to a small cameo piece, quite unrehearsed, but which certainly delighted the clientele. It was through this venue that someone asked him to speak at the Yorkshire CCC dinner. Engagements rolled in from there and eventually he decided to give up his position in restaurant management to become a professional impressionist. 

Kevin was one of the stars of BBC2’s and BBC Radio 4’s highly acclaimed Dead Ringers series which won the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award for Comedy. His impressions of public figures including Andrew Marr, David Dimbleby, Gordon Brown, Fabio Capello and Richie Benaud are uncannily accurate. Kevin’s many other television credits include Today with Des and Mel, BBC Sports Review of The Year, Des O’Connor’s World Cup Party, The Full Motty, We’re On Our Way To Wembley, The Sports Show, It’s Just Not Cricket With Rory Bremner, Saint & Greavsie, The Pavilion End, The Impressionable Jon Culshaw and Double Take. He was also given his own show on Tyne Tees TV in 1999. Kevin’s other radio credits include Talk Radio’s World Cup team for France ’98, The Steve Penk Breakfast Show and BBC Radio Five Live’s Christmas Sport Review of 2005, Freddie Flintoff Ate My Ashes.

Kevin is in great demand for corporate events and sportsmen’s dinners and has worked for clients in the UK and Europe including Sanyo, Credit Suisse, The Variety Club, Lloyds TSB, The Institute of Bankers, Sports’ Journalists Association, Norwich City Football Club, The Football Association and the Chamber of Commerce.

Kevin’s extensive repertoire includes sportsmen, politicians and television personalities and characters as well as a spectacular Sir Elton John performance!

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