- Entered Day 1
- Evicted Day 16
- 2 evictions faced
- 7 noms received
Bruce Jones is an English actor, best known for his role as cab driver Les Battersby in Coronation Street. He left the role in 2007.
Bruce was born in Manchester and then lived with his grandmother in Wales where he joined his school drama group at the age of eleven. His first big break came in 1993 when he was cast as the lead of Bob Williams in the feature film Raining Stones by director Ken Loach. The film went on to receive great critical acclaim and won the Evening Standard Awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay. Bruce was presented with the European Actors Award.
Bruce married Sue Margaret Bailey on 12th June 1971 at St. Oswald’s Church, Collyhurst. The couple had two sons, John and Stephen, and divorced in 1982. In 1984, Bruce then married Sandra and the couple had two children and lived in Marple.
In 1995, Jones had a role as a prostitute’s client in Band of Gold. In 1997, he had a small part in the hit film The Full Monty. He played one of the males who auditioned to be one of the strippers, and he received the Stage Actor’s Guild Award. He also appeared in the Shane Meadows film Twenty Four Seven with actor Bob Hoskins in 1996, before joining the cast of Corrie.
In 1998 he pleaded guilty to drink driving after being found more than twice over the limit and was banned from driving for three years. By 2000, his boozing became so heavy he checked into the Priory.
Over the following years Bruce gained numerous credits for film and television productions including Benidorm, Heartbeat, Celebrity Wife Swap, A Touch of Frost, Famous, Rich and Homeless, and The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan. In March 2007, Bruce was suspended from Coronation Street after allegedly getting drunk with an undercover reporter, making inappropriate comments and revealing future storylines.
Jones told ‘The People’ newspaper in January 2009 that he had blown his £1 million fortune and has not received any offers of work since leaving Coronation Street, and owed £30,000 in taxes. In September 2009 he was living alone in a caravan in North Wales. In May 2010 it was reported that Jones has been made homeless after the bank repossessed his £500,000 Cheshire house in order to pay his large debts, and that he cannot afford to go into rehab for his chronic alcoholism.
Jones performed as Captain Hook and Mr Darling in Peter Pan at the Blackfriars Arts Centre in Lincolnshire over Christmas 2011. He struggled with this role and was reported to have lost his voice; despite his alcoholism, he continued to drink throughout the run of the show. In October 2012 Bruce and producer Steve Jones commissioned author and playwright Huw Roberts to write a one-man play about tackling and recovering from depression. Starring Bruce, “TALK!! Tackling the Taboo” premiered at Theatre Colwyn in North Wales in April 2013.
In May 2013 Bruce told The Sun that he is also working as a mechanic at a garage in North Wales for £120 a week and still does to this day.
dont know who Bruce :straight: is
Is there not a reality t-v program that Bruce hasn’t done 😯
Pity The Bill still weren’t on isn’t that were all the old has been’s go……………
Wish Bruce and Vicky was in Coronation Street again 😀
Team Bruce and Vicky 🙂
🙁 He is an emotional “cry baby”, I wondered how long before the tears would flow. 😉
Reminds me of the old misery’s that sit in the Bookies all day. Yaaaaaawn.
hope he doesn’t blow he,s chance making a few bob, think bb are out of order giving him 15 grand, Vicky got 150 grand, think she keeping her distance she must have her reasons
@mmm
Not sure about making a few bob, more like his nickname should be Bob (Boring ol’ B*stard).
:down: He’s a stomping, petulant ,moaning loudmouth, a most unlikeable person. :up:
Charlotte is the most disrespect like hussy in that fking house. She was not brought up very well was she…you don’t speak to an old man like that! :envy:
The young ppl are eliminating the older guys one by one aren’t they.. :down:
Need to watch his health, his skin has turned red and you don’t want him getting a heart attack becos of eing in the BB house!
@Yogi
It’s about time someone said something to the miserable sod with anger issues.
@Yogi And heres me thinking it was the actual public voting them out :tongue: it was a case of the most boring house mate went out who doesnt offer any entertainment! ! :up:
I think bruces outburst the other night was him trying to get himself noticed :down: I mean come on all he does it sit and smoke and eat tomatoes on toast. ……… that may be why his face is red all that tomato eating lol
Ohhhh and red from all the winging too 😀
Typical, old school, Northern, neanderthal man. Best years behind him, nothing new to offer & out to seed. Sad but true 😥
Time to piss off home now,somebodys car is bound to need an oil change .Not that Bruce will be doing it but he can clean up after the proper mechanic.
Prone to angry outbursts! Learn some self control Your not a toddler!
A grumbling, bellowing whinger, complaining that he “doesn’t like show offs”, well he’s joined the wrong profession then. !! :doh:
This is Big Brother not Grumpy Old Men. He’s really starting to annoy me now. Brings nothing to the show apart from whinging, get him out. :down:
Taxi for Bruce!!!
Out with the angry, miserable b*****d! :down:
Feel quite sorry for Bruce, he seems so ill at ease and awkward. Especially having to be in their with the vile chav Charlotte. He really is struggling being with lots of different personalities. Also felt sorry when he tried to cheer Dustin up and he blanked him. 🙁
He seems to really loathe Lauren & can’t stand it when she tries to hug him. :down: I do not like his whole attitude. :down: