Bob the Builder: Neil Morrissey axed as voice of Bob the Builder after 14 years and an Ivor Novello Award - Mirror Online
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Actor Neil Morrissey has been axed as the voice of children’s TV programme Bob The Builder.
Neil, 51, spent 14 years working on the BBC1 show as the voice of Bob, his friend Farmer Pickles and a crane named Lofty.
The Men Behaving Badly star achieved two number one singles as the persona of the animated builder and won an Ivor Novello Award for the hit Can We Fix It?
But Neil reveals he has now been dropped by the BBC.
He said: “I have been axed. I have no idea why. They have gone for some cheap person. There should be a public outcry about it.”
The entertainer revealed all in an interview with Piers Morgan for Piers’ new ITV chat show Life Stories, due to air in the new year.
Neil added: “I had two number one singles and won an Ivor Novello Award. I did well out of it and it was regular great work.
"It was the most fun you could have with a microphone.”
He bagged the Christmas Number 1 in 2000 with the show’s hit Can We Fix It?.
And a second single released from the Bob the Builder album – a cover of Mambo No 5 – also topped the charts the following year.
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