An emotional day for popular
‘Catchphrase’ host
ROY WALKER
as his son
Phil marries |
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It has been an emotional few weeks for
television’s Catchphrasehost Roy Walker. The Irish comic had hardly
recovered from watching his singer-actress daughter Josie Walker in the
previews of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new West End musical The Beautiful
Game – which by strange coincidence parallels his early married life
amid the Belfast troubles – than he was shedding tears again at the
wedding of his son, Phil.
Both Phil, 34, and his brother Mark, 36, have
followed their father into the comedy business, with Phil, like his dad before
him, making his name in the TV series The Comedians. It was down to
sister Josie, 31, to extend the family’s showbiz tradition into musicals,
starring in Cats and Phantom Of The Opera, before opening in
The Beautiful Game this week.
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Because it’s
such a showbiz family
– both sons are comics and their sister is an
actress/singer – lots of the guests were from
the world of
entertainment |
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The showbiz family was out in force for
the wedding of Phil and his lovely girlfriend of eight years, Janet Barrow, 31,
a former band singer and show compere who is now a special events organiser.
The one sad absence was that of Roy’s wife Jean – the Walker
children’s mother – who died of cancer 11 years ago, aged just 49.
That was the only cloud to dim the bright sunshine as the guests
arrived at St John the Divine Church on East Beach, in the seaside resort of
Lytham St Anne’s, Lancashire, just down the road from where the couple,
and Roy, live – and the same church where Doctors star Jacquie
Leonard had tied the knot just a few weeks before. |
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Bridegroom Phil and his girlfriend of eight
years, Janet Barrow, with his father Roy.
Like Roy, Phil is a comedian,
but he says,
apart from squabbling over who nicked whose
joke for their
respective routines, they don’t
try to be funny at home
The new Mr and Mrs
Walker
weren’t expecting to feel any different after tying the knot
because they have been living together for seven years, but Janet describes the
wedding as the “seal” to their commitment. The newlyweds were off for
a Mediterranean cruise and some golfing in the Algarve before settling down in
Lancashire |
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