Ted Robbins

Edward Michael Robbins born 11 August 1955 is an English actor television presenter and radio broadcaster and presents a Sunday morning show on BBC Radio Lancashire He has performed as a warmup artist for numerous prerecorded comedy shows that have been filmed before live studio audiences including Granada Televisions Wood and Walters and Birds of a Feather provided the voiceover in Catchphrase from 1994 to 1996 and returned in Roy Walkers penultimate series in 1998 and 1999 and the BBCs Little Britain He also starred in Peter Kays Phoenix Nights 200102 for both series as Den Perry the main villain and also the Governor in The Slammer His most recent roles were in Benidorm in 2012 as Victor St James Also Hank Zipzer in episode 8 playing Bob and Diddy TV playing Larry Bingbongberger He guest starred as Barry Quid in Series 10 of Birds of a Feather and also in the comedy series The League of Gentlemen as Tony Cluedo singer of Crème Brulee On 31 January 2015 Robbins suffered a heart attack and collapsed on stage clutching his chest during his solo sketch at the opening night of the Phoenix Nights Live tour at the Manchester Arena3 His health has improved since then and he has lost two stone4 Robbins currently hosts the Friday afternoon show on BBC Radio Manchester In 2020 Robbins appeared on the rebooted version of Crackerjack as one of the Crackerjack Players