Cleo Rocos
Cleo Rocos | |
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Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 24 July 1962
Occupation(s) | Comedy actress, producer, presenter, businesswoman |
Television | The Kenny Everett Television Show |
Cleo Rocos (born 24 July 1962,[1][2] in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)[3] is a UK-based comedy actress, producer, presenter and businesswoman who starred alongside Kenny Everett on The Kenny Everett Television Show.[3][4][5]
Early life
Rocos was born in Brazil. Her father was Greek and worked in shipping, and her mother was English.[6][7] She came to England as a child to attend school, and also took acting classes.
Television career
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Early career and Kenny Everett
Rocos had an early non-speaking part as a green-skinned alien in the first episode of the
Off-screen the two found an immediate affinity,[9] which became an enduring friendship "causing mischief wherever we went".[10] Marcus Berkmann described the pair as "two reticent, rather formal people who loved to play and perform but valued their privacy above all else."[11]
Later work
From the late 1980s to early 1990s, Rocos starred in a Welsh comedy show on S4C called Pobol y Chyff. Rhys Ifans and Meirion Davies played the main characters.
An occasional sidekick to 'shock jock' DJ
Other TV credits include an acting role in US drama series Highlander,[11] presenting and co-producing a short Channel 5 series on the dresses of Princess Diana (whom she knew personally[8]), participating in BBC game shows such as Wipeout, Blankety Blank and Ready, Steady, Cook, and partaking in Channel 5's karaoke show Night Fever. She also starred in Leigh Francis' TV series Whatever I Want as herself, as did Big Brother host Davina McCall. Rocos later appeared again with Francis, on Bo'! in the US, the US version of Bo' Selecta!.[citation needed][when?]
Although her television work became less frequent after Everett's 1995 death, during the late 1990s she presented quirky reports from exotic locations for the long-running ITV travel show Wish You Were Here...?.[12]
2000s and 2010s
In 2002-3 she presented and produced a travel show for
In 2007, Rocos entered the
On 30 December 2007, Rocos was interviewed on Sky News as a "friend of Benazir Bhutto", the recently assassinated Pakistan politician.[14]
On 2 January 2010, she appeared on the BBC celebrity special of
In 2013 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity with Robert Llewellyn and Kevin Warwick.[15]
In 2014 (a few weeks before the World Cup association football tournament in Rio de Janeiro in June), she narrated the three-part observational series, 'Welcome to Rio', which aimed to reveal the truth about the city's famous shanty-towns, the favelas, through the lives of people who live there. Rocos narrated the programmes saying 'we', indicating her connection with Rio.[16][17]
In 2017 she appeared in a Channel 5 reality show, Celebrity 5 Go Motorhoming.[18]
Radio, music, producer and film
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Rocos is an occasional presenter for BBC Radio London. She has collaborated on some pop music singles, such as Love Dilemma in the 1980s – a traditionally-crooned number with the Enrico Valdez Orchestra – and 1993 dance track Back to Love with the band Vertigo (which disbanded when they learnt that their music was the last thing a woman murdered in Manchester had listened to[19]). She is not named on the latter's sleeve, beyond a small co-writing credit.
She co-produced a revival of
Her film credits include Mel Brooks's 1981 comedy History of the World, Part I, the 1983 comedy horror spoof Bloodbath at the House of Death (with Kenny Everett), Lindsay Shonteff's Number One Gun (1990), and Baby Juice Express (2004).[clarification needed]
Writer
Rocos' autobiographical book Bananas Forever: Kenny Everett and Me (co-authored by Richard Topping), detailing her relationship with Everett, was published in 1998 but later reissued under the title Kenny and Me. She has contributed travel articles to publications such as The Daily Telegraph.
Rocos's book The Power of Positive Drinking, published by Random House, covers how to drink well and avoid the pitfalls.[21]
Business career
In 2012 Rocos launched a premium brand of tequila called AquaRiva, made from 100%
References and sources
- References
- ^ "Cleo Rocos". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 25 April 2017.
- ^ a b Webber, Richard (7 October 2013). "Cleo Rocos: 'I went on Big Brother to pay my tax bill'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ Hello! Magazine. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- ^ Gorman 2012, p. 63.
- ^ a b c Emma Sinclair (15 October 2012). "How Cleo Rocos replaced light entertainment with tequila". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
Cleo Rocos, best known as Kenny Everett's glamorous side-kick, is now taking the tequila world by storm
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Cleo Rocos". Curtisbrown.co.uk. 11 April 2013. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ a b Jacques, Adam (7 September 2013). "Credo: Cleo Rocos - 'I have fantastic memories of drinking with Princess Diana'". The Independent. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ The World According to Kenny Everett, ITV Studios, tx 26 December 2015; from 31:00 (via youtube)
- ^ Rocos, Cleo (30 September 2012). "Forever my friend: Cleo Rocos on her kindred spirit Kenny Everett". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ OCLC 185201487. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ^ "Cleo Rocos". The List. 22 July 1999. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Celia Walden (2006). "Carry on, Cleo". London: Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 January 2007.
- ^ "Cleo Rocas on Sky News". 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
- ^ "Llewellyn, Rocos, Warwick, Series 6, The Museum of Curiosity - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
- ^ "Welcome to Rio - Episode guide - BBC Two". BBC.
- ^ Wollaston, Sam (28 May 2014). "Welcome to Rio; The Complainers – TV review". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Celebrity 5 Go Motorhoming - S1 - Episode 1". Radio Times. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Cleo Rocos". Metro. 3 January 2002. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ Bruce-Gardyne, Tom (27 April 2013). "Drinking advice from an unlikely source". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ Richard Godwin (18 October 2012). "The Spirits: tequila makes you happy, not drunk – London Life – Life & Style – London Evening Standard". Standard.co.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- Sources
- ISBN 978-0-09-192848-3.
External links
- Cleo Rocos at IMDb
- Official website of her tequila brand AquaRiva