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Call to get a statue up in Perth for much-loved actor Andy Gray Tributes have been paid to the writer and actor who kept a lifelong loyalty to Perth. Updated Scottish actor and panto star Andy Gray had recently beaten Leukemia and was thinking of working again on River City (Image: SUNDAY MAIL) Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other r...

Submitting... Gray, who started his acting career at Perth Theatre in the late 1970s, shot to fame in the 1980s with the BBC Scotland sitcom City Lights, playing Chancer, the sidekick of Willie Melvin, who was played by Gerard Kelly. Reruns of the show, which also featured Dave Anderson, Iain McColl, Elaine C Smith and Jonathan Watson, were only recently broadcast by BBC Scotland again. Gray, who joined the cast of River City in 2016, had previously battled blood cancer after being diagnosed in 2018, but made a comeback in the King’s panto the following year. More recently he had fought aga...

Comedy star 'contracted Covid' on top of cancer Tributes have been paid to Scottish comedy star Andy Gray, who has died at the age of 61. The entertainer, a mainstay of the Edinburgh theatre scene and a regular pantomime performer, is reported to have contracted Covid.  He also had a rare type of blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome, which affects the bone marrow. Gray, who  trained in Drama at Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University, started his career the BBC Radio Scotland sketch show Naked Radio, and its TV counterpart Naked Video, alongside the likes of Gregor Fisher, Elaine C...

BBC News Published image captionJonathan Watson as Frank McAvennie, one of the shows most enduring football characters Only An Excuse stars Jonathan Watson and creator Phil Differ say the show "had a good kick of the ball" but now is the right time for the final whistle. The comedy sketch show, which has become a Scottish Hogmanay tradition, is coming to an end after 27 years on TV. Differ, who also previously worked on New Year's Eve institution Scotch and Wry, says it is a "big responsibility" to be trusted with such a landmark comedy show. He says: "People are sitting down at Hogmanay and...

Elaine C Smith reveals she records two versions of hit sitcom Two Doors Down - one with her trademark swearing and one without The actress spoke ahead of the sitcom's Christmas Special tonight. Elaine C Smith as her brutally honest character Christine Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our...