Gary Wilmot

Harold Owen Gary Wilmot is an English singer, actor, and comedian who rose to fame as a contestant on New Faces. As a television presenter, he is best known as the host of So You Want To Be Top and Showstoppers.

Wilmot was born in Lambeth, London, into a mixedrace household his mother was English, and his Jamaican father Harry was a member of vocal harmony group The Southlanders. Harry died of a brain tumour in 1961, when his sons were still young. Despite these show business roots, Wilmots upbringing was outside of the limelight he continued to live on the predominantly white estate while his mother struggled to raise her children on family allowance. Later, he began to work on building sites and in factories, soon realising that manual labour was not a career he wished to pursue.

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