Cleo Rocos Biography
Cleo Rocos is a comic actress, producer, presenter, and businesswoman from the United Kingdom. She co-starred with Kenny Everett on The Kenny Everett TV Show.
How old is Cleo Rocos? – Age
She is 61 years old as of 24 July 2023. She was born in 1962 in Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Cleo Rocos Family – Education
Her father was Greek and worked in shipping; her mother was English. She moved to England as a child to attend school and take acting classes.
Cleo Rocos Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £10,000.
Cleo Rocos Radio
Rocos occasionally presents for BBC Radio London. She has worked on some pop music singles, such as Love Dilemma with the Enrico Valdez Orchestra in the 1980s and Back to Love with the band Vertigo in 1993. She is not named on the latter’s sleeve, except for a minor co-writing credit.
In 2000, she co-produced a revival of The Seven-Year Itch for the London stage, which starred Daryl Hannah. In 2005, Rocos created…Sex Actually, a special episode of The Comic Strip Presents in which a murder happens among a group of swingers. Her filmography includes Lindsay Shonteff’s Number One Gun (1990), Mel Brooks’s 1981 comedy History of the World, Part I, Lindsay Shonteff’s 1983 comedy horror parody Bloodbath at the House of Death (with Kenny Everett), and Baby Juice Express (2004).
Cleo Rocos Career
Rocos had an early non-talking part as a green-cleaned outsider in the principal episode of the Drifter’s Manual for the Universe TV series (1981), showing the impacts of a Container Cosmic Swish Blaster. As indicated by Rocos she was later eating at the BBC with The Drifter’s… chief Alan Chime when they were drawn nearer by Jim Moir, later Head of Light Diversion, who requested that she tryout for another show he was creating. This was Kenny Everett’s BBC series The Kenny Everett TV program, which would run for five series from 1981 to 1988, in which her impressive voluptuous figure was in many cases used to comic impact.
The job would likewise be reverberated in her comparative appearances in the 1985 television sketch series Attacked Nuts, and later in reports for the buyer issues show Such is reality!. Rocos proceeded to comment in 2013 that the show wouldn’t be made in that frame of mind by virtue of “proficient battling ladies with thick lower legs and high pitched ovaries who have nothing preferred to do over to police individuals’ perspectives”. She likewise showed up, playing a white-covered lab right hand, close by Everett in BBC1 science test series Conceptualize, which ran for one series in 1988.
Off-screen the two found a prompt fondness, which turned into a persevering through companionship “causing wickedness any place we went”. Marcus Berkmann depicted the pair as “two hesitant, rather formal individuals who wanted to play and perform however esteemed their protection regardless of anything else.” From the last part of the 1980s to mid 1990s, Rocos featured in a Welsh satire show on S4C called Pobol y Chyff. Rhys Ifans and Meirion Davies played the principal characters.
A periodic companion to ‘stun muscle head’ DJ James Whale on late-night ITV in the mid 1990s, she satisfied a comparative job with television pundit Garry Bushell on ITV nighttime television survey series Bushell on the Crate. She likewise showed up in the Revolting Chap space, as a unintelligibly spectacular escort to actually ugly guys, on Chris Evans’ Channel 4 series TFI Friday in around 1996.
Other television credits remember an acting job for US dramatization series Highlander, introducing and co-creating a short Station 5 series on the dresses of Princess Diana (whom she knew specifically), taking part in BBC game shows like Crash, Blankety Clear and Prepared, Consistent, Cook, and participating in Station 5’s karaoke show Night Fever. She likewise featured in Leigh Francis’ television series Anything I Desire as herself, as did Older sibling host Davina McCall. Rocos later showed up again with Francis, on Bo’! in the US, the US adaptation of Bo’ Selecta!.
In spite of the fact that her TV work turned out to be less regular after Everett’s 1995 passing, during the last part of the 1990s she introduced idiosyncratic reports from fascinating areas for the long-running ITV travel show Wish You Were Here…?. In 2002-3 she introduced and created a movement show for Five called Cleo Around the world, and she spent quite a bit of summer 2006 recording another movement show for TV about the marvels of the world.
In 2007, Rocos entered the Big name Elder sibling house and stayed in the house until the last week. She was casted a ballot off the show on 26 January 2007 as a feature of an unexpected joint removal alongside vocalist Jo O’Meara, a previous individual from pop gathering S Club 7. On 30 December 2007, Rocos was consulted on Sky News as a “companion of Benazir Bhutto”, the as of late killed Pakistan legislator.
On 2 January 2010, she showed up on the BBC superstar extraordinary of All out Crash and on 2 May 2010, she showed up on the Watch game show, Shout Assuming You Know the Response. In October 2011, she was a member in Channel 4 show Come Eat with Me and was joint champ with the pop vocalist Pete Consumes. In 2013 she showed up on BBC Radio 4’s The Gallery of Interest with Robert Llewellyn and Kevin Warwick.
In 2014 (half a month prior to the World Cup affiliation football competition in Rio de Janeiro in June), she portrayed the three-section observational series, ‘Welcome to Rio’, which expected to uncover reality with regards to the city’s well known shanty-towns, the favelas, through the existences of individuals who live there. Rocos portrayed the projects saying ‘we’, demonstrating her association with Rio.
In 2017 she showed up in a Channel 5 unscripted TV drama, Big name 5 Go Motorhoming.In 2012 Rocos sent off a top notch brand of tequila called AquaRiva, produced using 100 percent ‘Weber Azul’ agave.
Cleo Rocos Books
Rocos’ autobiographical book, Bananas Forever: Kenny Everett and Me (co-authored by Richard Topping), about her relationship with Everett, was released in 1998 but then reprinted as Kenny and Me. She has written travel stories for magazines like The Daily Telegraph.
Rocos’ book, The Power of Positive Drinking, published by Random House, explains how to drink responsibly and avoid mistakes.