17 Facts About Jimmy Tarbuck

Jimmy Tarbuck was a host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the mid-1960s and hosted numerous game shows and quiz shows on ITV during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.

Jimmy Tarbuck is known for leading ITV's Live from Her Majesty's and its subsequent incarnations during the 1980s.

Actress, television and radio presenter Liza Jimmy Tarbuck is his daughter.

Jimmy Tarbuck was born in Wavertree, Liverpool, on 6 February 1940, son of bookmaker Joseph Frederick Jimmy Tarbuck and Ada McLoughlin.

Jimmy Tarbuck had a brother, Kenneth, and a sister, Norma, and was a friend of Dave Morris.

Jimmy Tarbuck attended Dovedale Primary School in Liverpool, where he was a schoolmate of John Lennon.

Jimmy Tarbuck then replaced Forsyth as the last original host of the show from 1965 until it was axed in 1967.

Jimmy Tarbuck has hosted numerous quiz shows, including Winner Takes All, Full Swing, and Tarby's Frame Game.

Jimmy Tarbuck appeared on the fourth series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing in 2006, but was forced to pull out due to high blood pressure, and needed surgery to fit stents in his heart.

Jimmy Tarbuck appeared on Piers Morgan's Life Stories on 25 May 2012, while on 3 December that year he was invited to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Variety Performance along with Bruce Forsyth, Ronnie Corbett and Des O'Connor.

Jimmy Tarbuck made a Comedy Playhouse pilot for the BBC in 1967, acting in Johnny Speight's To Lucifer, A Son alongside John Le Mesurier and Pat Coombs, but a series was not commissioned.

Jimmy Tarbuck was a close friend of actor and singer Kenny Lynch.

Jimmy Tarbuck is a Conservative Party supporter and at the height of his celebrity was a prominent supporter of Margaret Thatcher.

Jimmy Tarbuck is well known as a keen player of golf, and was prominent as a competitor in pro-celebrity golf matches when these were televised.

Jimmy Tarbuck is a devoted supporter of Liverpool Football Club.

In February 2020, Jimmy Tarbuck revealed the day after his 80th birthday that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

On 15 May 2023 Jimmy Tarbuck committed a series of driving offences, causing damage to vehicles while driving in Coombe Gardens, Kingston upon Thames, near his home.