Neil Morrissey: ‘Playing a woman was great. I had big hairy men flirting with me on set’
The actor and voice of Bob the Builder answers your questions about growing up in care, rebooting Men Behaving Badly in midlife and what he’d say to JLo if she called
February 2024
The reader interview
Post your questions for Neil Morrissey
He’s acted with Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Oliver, had two No1 singles and fooled the nation in a spoof documentary. Ask him anything, but keep it respectful
July 2023
The Crown Jewels review – the cream of British comedy can’t find a funny line between them
The likes of Al Murray, Neil Morrissey and Mel Giedroyc can’t rescue Simon Nye’s woefully tedious show about the real-life heist of King Charles II’s crown jewels
March 2023
TV tonight
TV tonight: Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice’s ‘lovely jubbly’ road trip
The Strictly dancers do Sicily. Plus: Line of Duty pals Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar explore their DNA. Here’s what to watch this evening
May 2022
Sunday with Neil Morrissey: ‘I like my gravy rustic and lumpy’
Delia is all wrong about the flour, the actor tells Rich Pelley. He knows this because he’s talked it over with pals in the pub
May 2020
This much I know
Neil Morrissey: ’I hated the press making me out to be a love rat’
The actor, 57, tells Vicki Power about phone hacking, beer brewing, comedy quartets and why he should be in Peaky Blinders
June 2019
Jump the shark
Men Behaving Badly: how Tony’s betrayal killed the flatshare bromance
While Gary was away, his best mate and his girlfriend became a bit too close. From then on, the show had lost its laddish camaraderie
March 2018
TV review
Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago review – stars put their best feet forward
Faith, friendship and curses as seven celebrity pilgrims trek to Santiago
August 2017
Adrian Dunbar on directing Homer on a Donegal beach – and his fears for Line of Duty
The actor best known as Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty is bringing Homer and Heaney to County Donegal. Our writer joins him for oysters as he takes his dogs for a windswept walk along the shore
February 2016
How I get ready
How I get ready: Neil Morrissey, actor
It doesn’t matter how spectacular people might look in a bespoke suit. If they have dirty fingernails, it makes me wonder what’s in their pants
