Miles Jupp: I've had a brain tumour
Comic's and neurosurgery inspires new tour as he says: 'I’m feeling pretty chipper these days'
Miles Jupp has revealed that has undergone major neurosurgery to remove a tumour.
Doctors found the growth ‘the size of a cherry tomato’ after the comedian and actor suffered a brain seizure.
The experience will form the basis for his new stand-up show, On I Bang, which tours the UK from January.
With typical understatement, the comedian’s blurb says: ‘Obviously, one doesn’t wish to make a big deal of it, but the experience has left him with a story to tell and a few things that he’d like to share with the room.’
And he told Chortle: 'I must make clear that this was nearly two years ago now, so I’m feeling pretty chipper these days. Even so, it still gives me something to think about.'
Since Jupp’s last tour, Songs Of Freedom finished at The London Palladium in 2017, he appeared in ITV’s The Durrells and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? and a number of episodes of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Have I Got News For You. He can currently be seen on the TV version of The Full Monty on Disney Plus
The former News Quiz host also made the Radio 4 programme Whatever Next?, which was named best radio sketch show at last year’s British Comedy Guide awards and he published a novel, History, which was published in 2021
But for Covid, he would have played a lead at the RSC, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. But he did star in the stage adaptation of classic Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob and starred in The Life I Lead, a one-man play about Mary Poppins actor David Tomlinson on tour and in the West End
Jupp also plays the Emperor of Austria and Europe in Ridley Scott's upcoming historical biopic Napoleon and can soon be seen in Belgravia: The Next Chapter for ITV.
Published: 11 Sep 2023
