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Peter Kay

Profession: Writer and Comedian
Place/Date of Birth: Bolton , 02 July 2020

The ceremony marks the start of the illuminations’ 66-night run, which will see more than six miles of the promenade bathed in light. The stunning light displays take 65,000 staff 22 weeks to erect. The lights are expected to attract more than 3.5 million visitors to Blackpool during their nine week run. Visitors are expected to spend around £275 million during the illuminations period.

The way to No.1- March 05
Peter Kay and Tony Christie head for top of the charts.

The award winning comic teamed up with seventies crooner Tony Christie for a re-release of Is This The Way To Amarillo in aid of Comic Relief and, on it’s first day in the shops, it’s already outselling all the other releases put together. HMV have even reported that they have had to order in more copies of the single because demand is so high. The video features Kay miming along to the song, which he has previously used in his TV series Phoenix Nights, and it looks like this will be enough to get 61 year old Christie his first number one.

Full time - March 05
Peter Kay has called time on his John Smiths ads.

The Bolton funnyman has decided that it’s time to move on from the beer adverts that first brought him to the greater public’s attention. The ads, which have featured Kay as a Sunday League footballer, an Olympic diver and a curry eating Dad, have now been running for several years and it seems that even the man himself has had enough of them as he decides not to renew his contract with the bitter manufacturers.

Bolton’s a tourist trap - April 04
Tourism in Bolton has risen by 10% thanks to Peter Kay.

According to local tourism bosses visitors to Bolton spent £152million last year, up 10% on 2002. Those in the know say this rise is due to the Commonwealth Games and Peter Kay’s hit comedy Phoenix Nights which is based in a Bolton social club. And that’s not forgetting the current slew of famous faces coming out of the town,

Radio 1’s Sarah Cox and Vernon Kaye both come from the town as does Vernon’s missus ITV presenter Tess Daly.

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Peter Kay’s baby boy - Jan 04
Peter Kay and wife Susan have had their first baby, a 7lb 3oz little boy.

Peter and Susan have named their child Charlie Michael, who was born by Caesarean section in a hospital in Peter’s home town of Bolton. The Phoenix Nights star said: "Susan and I are both over the moon. Mother and baby are thankfully doing very well."

The 30-year-old met shop worker Susan in a club and they married three years ago

Peter Kay in Corrie - 12/12/03
Comedian Peter Kay will be appearing in two episodes of Coronation Street. He will play a character called Eric, a brewery drayman who fancies Rovers landlady Shelley. He has a date with her, but apparently it doesn’t go off very well!