Video of first TV appearance is very popular on social media
Belfast-born Jimmy won ITV’s television talent contest Search For A Star at the beginning of the 1980s.
He earned his own television show called And There’s More, which was broadcast over four series between 1985 and 1988.
The show included the first TV appearance by the impressionist Rory Bremner.
Jimmy also appeared in a television special broadcast on ITV called All Cricket and Wellie.
By now, Jimmy was a household name and the subject of Eamonn Andrews’, programme, This Is Your Life, which aired in September 1987.
He also had his own comedy series on BBC Radio 2 during the 1990s called Jimmy’s Cricket Team’.
In addition to his own TV show, Jimmy made numerous other television appearances, including featuring on both the ‘Royal Variety Performance’ and the children’s equivalent.
He appeared regularly on BBC TVs long-running show ‘The Good Old Days’.
The video of his first TV appearance has attracted thousands of likes and hundreds of comments across both Facebook and TikTok.
Comments include:
Garry Williams Class act.
Steve Massey Brilliant 
Jean Fox I have worked with him on pantos he is a lovely man and still wears his boots loved him when I was younger
