Bob Mortimer is going solo – but only to release an autobiography about his life and near-death heart issues in 2015. The comic and TV star is known for working with comedy partner Vic Reeves or more recently with Paul Whitehouse in BBC2 series Gone Fishing.
His memoir will be titled based on something he says on the angling show when he lets fish back into the water. And Away... will come out in September telling his story from his childhood in Middlesbrough to unexpected heart surgery in 2015, and the success he’s found since on BBC2’s Gone Fishing.
Born in 1959, Mortimer began his career training as a solicitor before a chance encounter in a pub in the 1980s with Jim Moir, a comedian who was already going by the stage name Vic Reeves.
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