Rhona Cameron

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Rhona Cameron
Born (1965-09-27) 27 September 1965 (age 58)
Dundee, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Years active1992–present
Website www.rhonacameron.com

Rhona Cameron (born 27 September 1965) is a Scottish comedian, writer and TV presenter. She rose to prominence via the stand-up comedy circuit, and was a regular on British television in the 1990s.

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Television career

In 1992, she won So You Think You're Funny . [1]

She presented the ITV game show Russian Roulette and the BBC Two show Gaytime TV . [2] Cameron co-wrote Rhona with her former partner Linda Gibson. Rhona was a sitcom which starred Cameron as Rhona Campbell, a lesbian Scot living alone in London, who has problems similar to those of her straight friends. Only one six-episode series was made, broadcast in July and August 2000 on BBC2. [3] [4]

Cameron was a participant in the first series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! .

In June 2009, she appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap with her partner, Suran Dickson. [5]

She is the narrator for the Channel 4 series Find It, Fix It, Flog It. [6]

In January 2022, she was announced as one of several comedians on GB News' newspaper preview show Headliners. [7]

Writing

She is the author of Nineteen Seventy-Nine: A Big Year in a Small Town, a book about growing up as a lesbian in the small fishing town of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, detailing about her teenage years and father's illness.

Her debut novel The Naked Drinking Club was published by Ebury Press in 2007. [8]

Other performances

Rhona appeared as the first female Narrator in some performances of The Rocky Horror Show UK tour 2003. [9] She has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank. [10] Since 2015, she has provided the voice of Bonnie in the video game Payday 2 .

Personal life

Cameron was born in Dundee and is adopted; her birth mother (whose name Cameron keeps secret) was from North Shields and her biological father is shown as "unknown" on the adoption records. [11] She attended Musselburgh Grammar School. [12]

Cameron previously had relationships with comedian Sue Perkins and with writer Linda Gibson. [13]

Activism

Cameron is a Patron of both LGBT Youth Scotland and Pride London [14] (the UK's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride event). She has stated that she supports the Scottish National Party and 'the case for Independence'. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Rhona Cameron – 1992 | So You Think You're Funny?". soyouthinkyourfunny.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  2. ↑ BFI database: GAYTIME TV [08/06/99]
  3. ↑ "Rhona". BBC Comedy. BBC. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  4. ↑ "Episode list for "Rhona" (2000)". IMDb. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  5. ↑ Edinburgh Evening News – Comic Rhona Cameron to tie knot with partner in Edinburgh
  6. ↑ Excellent Talent [@excellenttalent] (14 September 2016). "Find it, Fix it, Flog it is back on @Channel4 this Monday. Voiced by Excellent's own @therhonacameron #voiceover" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 September 2020– via Twitter.
  7. ↑ Bennett, Steve. "GB News reveals line-up of comedians for its newspaper preview show : News 2022 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Rhona Cameron – 1992 | So You Think You're Funny?". soyouthinkyourfunny.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Rhona Cameron – 1992 | So You Think You're Funny?". soyouthinkyourfunny.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "ITV Series 1, Episode 3". Lily Savage's Blankety Blank. 21 January 2001. ITV. Repeated 23 August 2016 on Challenge TV.
  11. ↑ "My name and other secrets". The Guardian. London. 11 August 2007. para. 1. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Rhona Cameron had a drunken, misspent youth. Would it all have been different if she'd gone to art school?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  13. ↑ "Rhona" . Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  14. ↑ "Book Rhona Cameron, comedian and presenter". Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  15. ↑ "Scotland once led the way on gay rights. What's gone wrong? | Rhona Cameron". the Guardian. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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