Leigh Francis
- 51 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
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BAFTA TV Award Winners 2016
Michaela Coel, Peter Kay, Leigh Francis, Have I Got News For You and Car Share have won at the BAFTA Television Awards 2016. Meanwhile Galton & Simpson and Lenny Henry picked up special prizes.
British Comedy Guide, 8th May 2016Peter Kay's Car Share leads BAFTA TV Awards comedy nominations
Car Share leads the comedy related nominations in the 2016 BAFTA Television Awards shortlists. Other nominations include Chewing Gum, Peep Show and People Just Do Nothing.
British Comedy Guide, 30th March 2016The second series of Marmite showbiz send-ups continues. The unlikely Big Fat Gypsy Kardashian mash-up lives on, with ex-Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts joining the fold as Caitlyn Jenner. Elsewhere, there are more potentially slanderous sketches featuring "Olly Murs", "Caroline Flack" and "Martin Clunes", and Yvette Fielding parodies her ghost-hunting gig with Probably Not Haunted. Unless you're a fan of Leigh Francis's titular irritant or share his obsession with the likes of Ant & Dec, it's unlikely to appeal.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 11th February 2016Keith Lemon: sharp comic talent or taking the pith?
Few people divide opinion like Leigh Francis's mustachioed creation. As a new series of his panel show Celebrity Juice begins, two writers debate his pros and cons.
Paul MacInnes & Jack Seale, The Guardian, 17th March 2015Leigh Francis puts holiday privacy ahead of USA plans
Leigh Francis insists he is one of the few TV stars who has no desire to crack America - because he wants to stay anonymous when he goes on holiday.
Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 15th March 2015Leigh Francis on Twitter hate
"I'm only trying to make you laugh"
Jamie Harris and Frances Taylor, Digital Spy, 11th March 2015The Keith Lemon Sketch Show gets 2nd series
ITV2 has ordered a second series of The Keith Lemon Sketch Show, the latest TV comedy vehicle for Leigh Francis's comic alter ego.
British Comedy Guide, 11th March 2015With Britain seemingly under a collective delusion that Keith Lemon is an actual person (at least if polling for Heat's weird crush of the year is anything to go by), it's time for Leigh Francis to go find/replace-crazy on old Bo' Selecta! scripts. Where once the nation was cooing at the antics of "Craig David", "Mel B" and "Michael Jackson", steel yourself for the likes of "Ed Sheeran", "Kim Kardashian" and "Harry Styles" all doing pretty much the same joke. Proper bo? Proper boring, more like.
Mark Jones, The Guardian, 5th February 2015Nick Grimshaw apologises for offensive Keith Lemon joke
BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw was forced to apologise to listeners who were offended by a joke, made by guest Keith Lemon, about the plane crash in Taiwan that killed 31 people. Lemon, who is played by 41-year-old comedian Leigh Francis, compared the pilot of the doomed TransAsia Airways Light GE235 to Lady Gaga.
Jenn Selby, The Independent, 5th February 2015Interview: Keith Lemon / Leigh Francis
"I don't do impressions," explains Keith, whose creator, comedian Leigh Francis, 41, always gives interviews in character. I don't concern myself with doing the right voice, it's more about my own interpretations of people."
Susanna Galton, The Mirror, 31st January 2015