Andy Collins (television)

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Andy Collins is a British television personality.

[edit] Career in brief

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Andy Collins was an active member of the British Army and reputedly was the youngest serving soldier during the first Gulf War. ^[1]

During the 1990s he presented Game Over, a show on BSkyB's short-lived computer & technology channel .tv. He presented the British daytime version of Family Fortunes, a show based on the United States TV show Family Feud. In 2005 he appeared on the chat show Heads Up with Richard Herring to discuss his life, career and his love of poker.

The bulk of his work is as a warm-up act for numerous British entertainment variety shows, including entertaining grandstand-seat competition winners on the red carpet at the 2006 BAFTA award ceremony. Other noted warm-up work includes Games World^[2], Little Britain ^[3], Grownups ^[4], Any Dream Will Do, Dancing on Ice UK tour, Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and he was also the warm-up man for the 2006 series of Family Fortunes.^[5]

Andy also works weekdays on The Paul O'Grady Show, where he manages the audiences throughout the show and he can sometimes be seen bringing out the Nodding Buster tombola in an amusing costume.

He regularly appears in pantomime.