Christopher Biggins is a well loved television presenter, pantomime actor and the fifth male winner of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! 2007.
Biggins is most famous for being a comedy actor, appearing as the regular character Lukewarm in the popular situation comedy Porridge starring Ronnie Barker. Other comedy shows he appeared in include Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973) and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973 & 1978). He played Nero in the BBC dramatisation of I, Claudius by Robert Graves, having been selected for the role partly on the strength of a television commercial in which he had played a Roman emperor presiding over the games. He also appeared in the BBC's adaptation of Poldark 2.
On children's television he had a regular role as supermarket manager Adam Painting in the children's television programme Rentaghost (1978-1983) and also played Reverend Whiting in Southern Television's Brendon Chase, produced in 1980.
Biggins appeared in the Big Finish Productions audio drama The One Doctor, based on the television series Doctor Who. His film roles include The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). His theatre roles have included Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, and eighteen months at the London Palladium in the stage adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
He was co-host on Surprise, Surprise and hosted childrens gameshow On Safari (1982-1985) for TVS.
In 2007 Biggins ermerged the winner of ITV’s jungle reality show I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! He then appeared alongside fellow I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant, Anna Ryder Richardson, on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, where Christopher and Anna shared a £50,000 prize for their chosen charities. Christopher also appeared on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2007 with former camp-mate Cerys Matthews about their time in the Jungle.
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