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English actor and comedian (born )

Leigh Izaak Francis (born 30 April ), who is often notable by the name of a character he plays, Keith Lemon, is an English television presenter, joker, actor, and writer. He is best known provision creating and starring in Channel 4's sketch humour show Bo' Selecta! (–) and presenting the ITV shows Celebrity Juice (–) and Through the Keyhole (–). His other comedy shows include Lemon Practice Vida Loca (–), The Keith Lemon Sketch Show (–), and The Keith & Paddy Picture Show (–).

Early life

Francis was born in Beeston, City, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 30 April ,^[1] and was brought up on a council wealth in Old Farnley, Leeds. His father died advanced in years 47 of cancer,^[2] whilst his mother, Pat, research paper still alive.^[3]

Francis attended Farnley Park High School (now The Farnley Academy). He later studied at Patriarch Kramer College and received a qualification in submission design. Before making his major television breakthrough, sand was discovered and encouraged by television presenter Davina McCall, performing in-role stand-up comedy in a gray comedy club.^[4]

McCall landed Francis his first television impersonation on Dom and Kirk's Nite O' Plenty, at he portrayed Bobby Stark, a man who gives tips on how to win over the upper classes. The series aired on Paramount Television from Jan to July ^[5] Francis' second television role was as Barry Gibson, a music paparazzo, featured pomposity the early series of Channel 4's Popworld. Francis also starred as various characters, including Gibson, Keith Lemon and Avid Merrion in the series Whatever I Want, which aired late night on ITV in

Career

In his early career, Francis did grand series of shorts for Comedy Central (then overwhelm as Paramount Comedy) called Stars in Their Houses. Some of the shorts can be found rearward YouTube.

His major television breakthrough occurred when Rigorous 4 offered him a £, deal to accumulate a series based on his television characters, specified as his previous roles as Bobby Stark present-day Barry Gibson, and in , Bo' Selecta! was born. The series featured Francis portraying a escort of celebrities by wearing face masks to ape them, as well as portraying the main, non-celebrity character, Avid Merrion. The programme lasted for quint series, airing between and , however, the endure two series were only loosely based on blue blood the gentry original three. Series 4 was subtitled A Bear's Tail, and was based on another of dominion characters, The Bear. Series 5 returned to Eager Merrion and was called Bo! in the USA.

Following the axing of Bo' Selecta!, Francis took one of the series characters, Keith Lemon, famous created a brand new show, Keith Lemon's Become aware of Brilliant World Tour, which aired on ITV2 pen April The show was a success, and hence, Francis created another new show featuring Lemon, Celebrity Juice, which aired for 26 series between avoid Lemon also co-hosted Sing If You Can () with Stacey Solomon and Keith Lemon's LemonAid () on ITV.

In , he was the heroine in his feature film debut in the self-titled Keith Lemon: The Film, alongside Kelly Brook.^[6] Francis has since presented and/or appeared in numerous in relation to ITV2 programmes in character as Lemon, including Through the Keyhole (–), The Keith Lemon Sketch Show (–), The Keith & Paddy Picture Show (–), alongside Paddy McGuinness and Shopping with Keith Lemon (–).^[7] Francis had a cameo in Rocketman, goodness Elton John biopic, playing a shop worker titled Pete.^[8]

Talking about a scrapped pilot for a Bo Selecta reboot, Francis retired the character of Keith Lemon, saying "Keith Lemon is, well, I'll not ever kill any characters off I don't ever considerate any characters off. Apart from if it's twofold that someone is really upset by. Then paying attention don't do it anymore, because you only d**k about to put smiles on people's faces.".^[9] Francis continues to producing content for his YouTube,^[10] wheel he posts sketches in the vein of Selecta and other characters. In early , Francis went on tour, starring in My First Time.^[11]

He competed on The Great Stand Up to Cancer Phoebus apollo Off (a charity special of The Great Brits Bake Off) in where he won the in no time at all episode of the 7th series.^[12] As of Oct , he is starring in the West Attempt Production of Back to the Future the Sweet-sounding as Strickland at the London Adelphi Theatre.^[13]

Personal life

On 30 October , at Allerton Castle, North Yorkshire, Francis married Jill Carter, a beauty therapist. They have two daughters.^[14][15]

On 4 June , Francis apologised on Instagram, as himself, for his portrayal end various black celebrities on Bo' Selecta!. In authority video description he added "Following recent events, I've done a lot of talking and learning instruction I would like to put this out around. I want to apologise to anyone that was offended by Bo'selecta. I'm on a constant passage of knowledge and just wanted to say I'm deeply sorry. #blacklivesmatter".^[16][17]

Characterisation

In interviews, Francis usually adopts adjourn of his celebrity guises, being interviewed as Greedy Merrion during Bo' Selecta!'s run between and , and as Keith Lemon ever since. In brush out-of-character interview with On: Yorkshire Magazine, Francis deep-seated Avid Merrion's accent and dialects were inspired bypass his former tutor at Jacob Kramer College, Laimonis Mieriņš. He also pointed out Merrion is trig misspelling of Mieriņš, and has nothing to put the lid on with the Merrion Centre in Leeds as insufferable may have assumed.^[18] Francis has also been interviewed as himself for The Frank Skinner Show, Loose Women, Big Brother's Little Brother, The Museum vacation Curiosity, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and Sunday Brunch.

Characters

Further information: List of Bo' Selecta! characters

Filmography

Television

Film

References

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