Billy Pearce

Billy Pearce is an award winning English performer, comedian, actor and entertainer. A regular on UK television in the 1980s and 1990s, Pearce has been described as a supreme entertainer. His summer shows and pantomimes regularly breaks box office he loves performing at the alhambra theatre in Bradford where he breaks box office records

Pearce was born in Leeds in 1951. His father was a pianist and his mother Jean was a respected dance teacher, notably teaching a young Malandra Burrows to perform. He took up ballet as a child, developing a penchant for performing after appearing in amateur productions for Leeds Thespians and operatic companies. Despite this, Pearce had aspirations to be an engineer originally. This changed after he had a serious motorbike accident, which altered his outlook on life. He has explained, From then on I couldnt settle and I did lots of different jobs. Id never been out of Leeds and the surgeon who operated on me let me stay at his place on an island in the Adriatic. I was the only British person on the island. All those things changed my life and I couldnt settle after that. I certainly couldnt go back to working in an engineering factory day after day I didnt know what I wanted to do. I just drifted. He moved to Iceland for a period, worked on fish docks, was a dresser for Yorkshire Tele

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