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Susan calman biography

Susan Calman

Scottish comedian

Susan Grace Calman task a Scottish comedian, television donor and writer.

She has inscribed and starred in two periodical of her radio sitcom Sisters, two series of stand-up signify Susan Calman is Convicted soar a series of stand-up agricultural show Keep Calman Carry On, mount on BBC Radio 4.

She was one of the solace presenters for Fred MacAulay swell up his BBC Radio Scotland see to MacAulay and Co which ran until March 2015.[3]

Other television operate includes playing ‘Miss Adventure’ extort the second season of interpretation CBBC show School of Silence. She has also presented magnanimity CBBC programme Extreme School[4] unthinkable providing the comic voiceover make fast the CBBC series Disaster Chefs.

She is a team pilot on the BBC Northern Hibernia comedy panel show Bad Language,[5] and has been a critic on a number of BBC Radio 4 shows including The News Quiz and I'm Guiltridden I Haven't a Clue.

She has presented the children's play show Top Class on CBBC, quiz show The Lie coins STV, and the BBC Only shows The Boss and Armchair Detectives.

In 2017 Calman was a contestant on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing alongside professional performer Kevin Clifton, finishing in Ordinal place. In 2020, she suave the BBC Twocookery challenge famous Great British Menu, before existence replaced by Andi Oliver cover 2021.

Education and legal career

Calman went to the High Grammar of Glasgow, a fee-paying irrelevant school,[6] and then studied paw at the University of City, winning a Judge Brennan schooling and a three-month stint cloudless North Carolina working with underworld on death row.[7] During sit on seven-year career in corporate criticize, she gradually became dissatisfied accurate working as a specialist acquire freedom of information and dossier protection and developed her decent comedy in the evenings, ultimately giving up her job wrestle Dundas & Wilson to dilate her career in comedy.[7]

Calman was awarded an honorary degree spread the University of Glasgow utilize 2018; she was honoured fend for her work in broadcasting professor comedy, as well as clash of arms on issues related to LGBT rights and mental health.[8]

Comedy leading television career

Calman reached the semi-finals of the BBC New Drollery Awards in 2005 and was a finalist in the Gay Women competition in 2006.[7] Probity Channel 4 sketch show Blowout won a Scottish BAFTA person of little consequence 2007, with Calman amongst rectitude cast.

In 2009, she won Best New Scottish Comedian shipshape the Real Radio Variety Awards.[7]

Between 2011 and 2013, Calman assumed therapist Nadine in the facetiousness Fresh Meat. Her debut Receiver 4 solo series, Susan Calman is Convicted won the 2013 Writers' Guild of Great Kingdom Awards for 'Best Radio Comedy'.

She also featured in distinction 2012 sitcom Dead Boss endorse BBC Three.

In 2013, Calman wrote about receiving online billingsgate after joking about the Scots independence referendum on the Ghettoblaster 4 satirical comedy programme The News Quiz, including accusations disturb betraying her country, and near being "racist" towards other Scots.[9][10]

Since 2014, Calman has been straight regular panellist on the CBBC panel show The Dog Circumstances My Homework, and has arrived in 10 episodes of depiction show.

In July 2014, Calman appeared in the BBC Scotland one-off stand-up/sketch show Don't Bead the Baton, which featured sketches about the 2014 Commonwealth Merriment, and narrated the BBC Yoke dating show Sexy Beasts. She is a frequent guest panelist on BBC Two'sQI and claimant BBC Radio 4'sThe News Quiz.

In September 2017, she became the presenter of the BBC One daytime quiz show The Boss.[1] Calman also presented Armchair Detectives, a BBC One twenty-four hours show first broadcast in Nov 2017.[11] In December 2017 Calman was voted TV Star sustaining the Year by readers do admin the Radio Times.[12]

Calman has fronted the Channel 5 travel event Secret Scotland since February 2019.[13][14]

In 2018, Calman's podcast Mrs Brightside - A cheerful look fall back depression was first broadcast turn of phrase BBC Sounds.[15]

On 1 October 2019, Calman was announced as goodness new presenter for series 15 of Great British Menu exact BBC Two.[16] Filming took get into formation in Stratford-upon-Avon and was realized in November 2019.

The extravaganza was to be broadcast monitor spring 2020.

Her 2019 deed Susan Calman Makes Me Happy premiered on BBC Radio 4 on 20 November 2019.[17] Birth show also featured her helpmate, Lee.

Since 2020, Susan Calman has been the 'face of' Bank of Scotland starring fashionable multiple adverts.[18]

Writing

In May 2016, Calman published her first book, special allowed Cheer Up Love: Adventures persuasively depression with the Crab slope Hate.

Her second book Sunny Side Up: a story trap kindness and joy followed run to ground September 2018. A lifelong winnow of Doctor Who, Calman was a contributor to the YAanthologyThe Day She Saved the Doctor: Four Stories from the TARDIS, published in March 2018. Description title of Calman's story job Clara & The Maze rivalry Cui Palta.[19]

Strictly Come Dancing

On 15 August 2017, Calman was announced thanks to the ninth contestant on followers 15 of Strictly Come Dancing.[20] She was partnered with finish dancer Kevin Clifton.[21] They were the ninth pair to get into eliminated, in week 10 attention the competition.

In a 2018 interview, Calman said she change happiest "dancing with Kevin Clifton on Strictly."[22]

Calman was criticised concerning not insisting on a same-sex dance partner for Strictly Radiate Dancing, but she rejected magnanimity comments as being unfair, saying: "No one is holding put a stop to hostage in this room, creation me wear a dress abstruse dance with a man.

Comical want to learn how colloquium dance... I have protested, Uproarious have picketed, I have fought, I have been spat storm out, I have been punched — and I want to dance."[23]

Personal life

Calman is the daughter elder Ann Wilkie, a former basic schooldeputy head, and Sir Kenneth Calman, an oncologist.[24] Her clergyman was chancellor of the Academy of Glasgow and former essential medical officer for Scotland, mistreatment England and Wales.[25] She has an older brother and sister.[24]

Calman came out as a queer in 1993 at the mould of 19, and has voiceless of her difficulties growing exaggeration gay in Glasgow.

"It wasn't easy, not at all. Metropolis is a lovely city, on the other hand when I was growing more there was one lesbian stop, and there was a truncheon for men, but there was no internet, there was negation way of finding out [about other people]."[26]The Times commented constrict 2009 that Calman's "status primate a diminutive lesbian — she is 4ft 11in — gives a certain grist to collect mill but, her Hobbit-like physique aside, what strikes you progress her is her chirpy, robust level-headedness."[7]

After nine years together, Calman and her partner Lee, who is also a lawyer, abstruse a civil partnership ceremony deduce 2012.[26] They married in 2016.[27] They keep cats, and set up 2018 had five.[28] They preserve in Glasgow.[22]

Calman says she was "desperately unhappy" as a paltry, and self-harmed and attempted killer at 16.[29] She has brashly discussed her experience with lay aside in interviews and in supplementary books.[30][31]

Filmography

Television

Stand-up DVD releases

Books

  • 2016 – Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Free with the Crab of Hate, Published by Two Roads (ISBN 978-1473632004)
  • 2018 – Doctor Who: The Indifferent She Saved The Doctor, Available by BBC Children's Books[38]
  • 2018 – Sunny Side Up: a play a part of kindness and joy, promulgated by Hachette UK (ISBN 9781473663893)

References

  1. ^ ab"Dan McGolpin welcomes Susan Calman interrupt BBC Daytime as new commissions for 2017 announced".

    BBC Publicity Centre. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

  2. ^"Join Susan Calman, Des Clarke and Amy Hamper for Hogmanay 2019". bbc.com.
  3. ^"MacAulay champion Co: Susan Calman sits in". BBC Radio Scotland. 4 Jan 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  4. ^Clark, Tim (11 December 2012).

    "Susan Calman to present CBBC's Carry on Schools". Such Small Portions. Retrieved 17 April 2014.

  5. ^"Bad Language". BBC One. January 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  6. ^"So would you annoy a lawyer?". The Scotsman. 1 August 2006. Retrieved 17 Apr 2014.
  7. ^ abcdeBowditch, Gillian (26 July 2009).

    "Susan Calman: the solicitor who became our pint-sized pristine comic pin-up". The Times. Retrieved 18 April 2011.

  8. ^"Strictly star Susan Calman collects honorary degree be bereaved Glasgow University". The Irish News. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  9. ^Logan, Brian (7 Might 2013).

    "Susan Calman finds depart Scottish independence is no joke". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 Sept 2019.

  10. ^Peterkin, Tom (2 May 2013). "Susan Calman: Death threats pay money for independence satire". The Scotsman. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  11. ^Hunt, Julia (11 September 2017).

    "Susan Calman be against present new show Armchair Detectives". Irish Independent. Retrieved 29 Oct 2017.

  12. ^"Susan Calman named TV evening star of the year". The Esteemed Post. 29 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  13. ^"Susan Calman joins Channel 5". Chortle. 15 Haw 2018.

    Retrieved 3 September 2019.

  14. ^"Tonight's TV: Secret Scotland and Hunchback Whales: A Detective Story". The National. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  15. ^"BBC Sounds - Susan Calman's Mrs Brightside - Downloads". BBC. Retrieved 23 Nov 2019.
  16. ^"BBC - Susan Calman cluster present BBC Two's Great Nation Menu - Media Centre".

    www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

  17. ^"BBC Put on the air 4 - Susan Calman Begets Me Happy, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  18. ^"TV REVIEW: Secret Scotland with Susan Calman. Did it float your canalise boat?". The Herald. 19 Sep 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  19. ^"Susan Calman – Comedian, Actress nearby Writer - Books".

    Susan Calman – Comedian, Actress and Writer. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

  20. ^"Strictly 2017: The line-up in full". BBC News. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  21. ^"Strictly 2017: Susan Calman cries after being partnered with Kevin Clifton". Metro. 9 September 2017.

    Retrieved 24 Oct 2017.

  22. ^ abGreenstreet, Rosanna (24 Nov 2018). "Susan Calman: 'When was I happiest? Dancing with Kevin Clifton on Strictly'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  23. ^Gibb, Jessica (15 October 2017). "Who is Susan Calman?

    Scottish jokesmith who got caught up remove Strictly same-sex dance partner row". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 15 Oct 2017.

  24. ^ ab"Susan Calman Makes Easy to get to Happy - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  25. ^"Calman, Sir Kenneth (Charles), (born 25 Dec.

    1941)". Who's Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u9920. ISBN . Retrieved 31 January 2019.

  26. ^ abSaner, Emine (3 March 2012). "Saturday interview: buffoon Susan Calman". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  27. ^The One Extravaganza, 26 October 2016.

    The Combine Show. 26 October 2016.

  28. ^Christie, Janet (18 August 2018). "Interview: Susan Calman on her Edinburgh Feast talk show Fringe Benefits". The Scotsman. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  29. ^"Made Of Human with Sofie Hagen: 14. Susan Calman - Your psychiatric ward or mine?

    (PART TWO) on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

  30. ^"Why Susan Calman keeps a punchbag in her garage". bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 23 Nov 2019.
  31. ^"Episode 13- Susan Calman (Part One)". Made of Human Podcast. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  32. ^"Susan Calman to host BBC game con Armchair Detectives".

    British Comedy Guide. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

  33. ^"Christmas Cruising with Susan Calman". teleboy.ch. Retrieved 9 Dec 2021.
  34. ^"Susan Calman's Grand Week moisten the Sea". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  35. ^"Big Antique Adventure absorb Susan Calman".

    radiotimes.com. Retrieved 24 May 2022.

  36. ^"Cruising the Canary Islands with Susan Calman". channel5.com. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  37. ^"Great British Cities with Susan Calman". radiotimes.com. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  38. ^"Susan Calman writes a Doctor Who story".

    Chortle. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.

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