Jack Carroll (comedian)

In 2010, at the age of 12, Carroll came to comedian Jason Manford's attention when he saw a video of Carroll performing at his parents' wedding anniversary. At Manford's invitation, Carroll gave a short performance at the start of Manford's live show in front of more than 1,400 people at St. George's Hall in Bradford.[4] The performance was featured on a segment of BBC One's The One Show.[5][6] He performed with Manford again on 21 and 22 June 2013 at the Victoria Theatre in Halifax.[7]

In early 2012, Carroll was cast as Mr. Frazernagle in Ministry of Curious Stuff on the CBBC Channel, which starred Vic Reeves,[6] and has appeared in two series of the show.[8]

On 4 May 2014, it was announced that Carroll would appear in an episode of the BBC One sitcom Big School playing Dean, a new student at Greybridge School. He appeared in the fifth episode of the second series (broadcast 3 October 2014).[9]

On 6 June 2014, Carroll was cast in the fourth series of Sky1 comedy show Trollied, in the role of Harry.[10][11]

Carroll made a guest appearance in the BBC One daytime soap Doctors on 10 March 2015. He also made his acting debut on the 4 O'Clock Club as a pupil thinking of joining Elmsmere.

He plays the role of Pete in the 2019 film Eaten by Lions.[12]

Jack's latest role was in Episode 1 of Father Brown Series 7. He plays Tim Cudlip - the young brother of two would be train robbers.[13]

Carroll was a contestant on the seventh series of Britain's Got Talent in 2013. At his first audition, screened on 13 April,[14] the judges unanimously voted him through to the next round.[15] He was later put through to the live semi-finals. Carroll appeared on the second live semi-final on 28 May,[16] winning the show with 42.5 percent of the public vote.[17] He performed once again at the final on 8 June. At the end of the competition, Carroll finished in second place after receiving 20.1 percent of the vote, behind Hungarian shadow theatre group Attraction with 27 percent.[17]

After the Britain's Got Talent final, Carroll signed a deal with Simon Cowell's company Syco to write an autobiography.[18]

Carroll has appeared on the CBBC shows The Dog Ate My Homework[19] and Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up.[20] In 2015, he made guest appearances in Sunday Night at the Palladium and Jason Manford's It's a Funny Old Week. In 2016, Carroll performed a stand-up routine on the BBC Two series Live at the Apollo.[21] In 2017, Carroll appeared on the BBC Radio 4 topical comedy show, The Now Show.[22]

In September 2016, Carroll performed at the Keep Corbyn rally in Brighton in support of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.[23]

Carroll was born 11 weeks prematurely and he developed cerebral palsy.[24] In 2012, he won a Pride of Britain Award in the "Teenager of Courage" category.[4]

Carroll lives in Hipperholme, West Yorkshire with his parents.[4] He is a Leeds United F.C fan and on 31 August 2013, he performed at Elland Road at the launch of the club's Families United initiative.[25]

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