Just Biggins

My Story

Christopher Biggins

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857827811
• Year: 2009

There's only one Christopher Biggins. The man who was crowned the King of the Jungle on TV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! has been at the heart of the entertainment universe for more than forty years. His radiant personality and wicked sense of humour have made him a hit with millions of fans and won him the admiration of many of his peers. But just who is the person behind that infectious laugh? Within these pages, the man affectionately known as 'Biggins' finally reveals all...In this candid autobiography, Biggins tells the full story of his colourful, packed life. He tells of how, after winning his first role at a local theatre he headed to Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where his contemporaries included Jeremy Irons - with who he went on honeymoon! Thanks to diverse television roles such as Poldark, Porridge and Rentaghost, Biggins became one of the best-known faces on television and on the stage. Fortune shone on Biggins when he was the surprise contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2007. His genuine personality, his appetite for fun and the gusto with which he approached the dreaded Bushtucker trials all endeared him to his fellow contestants and the public, who wasted no time in voting him winner of the show.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• prologue : waiting and worrying
• 1 : a boy from oldham
• 2 : finding my voice
• 3 : stage school
• 4 : on the boards
• 5 : the RSC
• 6 : roman holiday
• 7 : living large
• 8 : the real me
• 9 : double takes
• 10 : panto dames
• 11 : the reverend ossie whitworth
• 12 : hollywood – and back
• 13 : east end boy
• 14 : oh, puck – it’s liza
• 15 : my golden girls
• 16 : the VAT man – and neil
• 17 : men behaving badly
• 18 : fabulous at 50
• 19 : back on stage
• 20 : the jungle – and beyond
• Copyright