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Gary is coming to see the panto
with his family and he’s like my
adopted son now, he calls me
NDT – Not Dead Ted - and if
I had a pound for every person
who said it wasn’t the first time
I’d died on stage! I mean we can
laugh now but at the time it was
terrible for my family and I try
to cherish every day now, things
have changed a lot since then.
So family are top of your list
then?
I don’t know where I’d be without
my family. I met my wife Judy
in 1988. She’s a Lancashire lass,
where we now live. At the time,
she was working abroad as a
dancer and she’d come home as
her Mum and Dad were being
made the Mayor and Mayoress
of Accrington. I know!
So anyway, my mate’s girlfriend,
now wife, kept saying – ‘you
need to meet my friend Judy’
and so we kind of went on this
blind date and I just went ‘Ding!’
She’s the one. So, I followed her
around like a lost puppy for four
days and then she had to go back
to Majorca. So I said ‘can you
ring me?’ and she phoned me
from this pay phone in Spain
and I found myself on the phone
to this girl I’d known for four
days saying ‘I think we should
get married – what do you think
of that?’ and she said ‘I think
that’s a good idea.’ And that was
that, we got married within the
year.
We’ve got two amazing kids,
Jack – he’s a producer for Blue
Peter and Molly is a bit of a star
cakemaker she’s on this Channel
4 series Extreme Cakemakers.
They’re
unbelievable.
I’m
incredibly lucky and I’ll always
be grateful for the chances that
have come my way. There’s still a
lot of fun to be had!
Ted Robbins is starring in
Jack and the Beanstalk at the
Stockport Plaza until January
5th, 2020.
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