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Just a Gigolo | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Starring | Tony Slattery |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 7 |
Production | |
Production company | Central for ITV |
Original release | |
Release | 8 April – 20 May 1993 |
Just a Gigolo is a 1993 British sitcom made by Central for ITV starring Tony Slattery as Nick Brim, a teacher who must become a gigolo to pay for his house [1] .
Other characters include his younger brother Simon (played by Paul Bigley) and Natalie, Nick's love interest, played by Rowena King.
Anthony Frederick Levin is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (1981–2021) and Peter Gabriel. He is also a member of Liquid Tension Experiment, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (1998–2000) and HoBoLeMa (2008–2010). He has led his own band, Stick Men, since 2010.
Tony Declan James Slattery is an English actor and comedian. He appeared on British television regularly from the mid-1980s, most notably as a regular on the Channel 4 improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. His serious and comedic film work has included roles in The Crying Game, Peter's Friends and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.
Kenneth John Bigley was a British civil engineer who was kidnapped by Islamic extremists in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004, along with his colleagues, U.S. citizens Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong. Following the murders of Hensley and Armstrong by beheading over the course of three days, Bigley was killed in the same manner two weeks later, despite the attempted intervention of the Muslim Council of Britain and the indirect intervention of the British government. Videos of the killings were posted on websites and blogs.
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