Patsy Biscoe Biography
Patsy Biscoe AM is a children’s television personality, singer, and guitarist from Australia. She was a regular on the national children’s television programs Here’s Humphrey and Fat Cat and Friends.
How old is Patsy Biscoe? – Age
She is 77 years old as of 21 March 2023. She was born in 1946 in Shimla, India.
Patsy Biscoe Family – Education
Biscoe was born in 1946 to a British army officer and a civil worker. During the Partition of India, she immigrated to Australia with her family and settled in Sydney before moving to Sandy Bay in Hobart when she was nine years old. After an unscheduled appearance at the St Mary’s College annual eisteddfod, she won a classical singing scholarship. She sang and played the guitar at a Sunday night jazz club while studying medicine at the University of Tasmania.
Patsy Biscoe Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Patsy Biscoe Here’s Humphrey
She rose to prominence in her adopted city of Adelaide as a regular on the Nine Network children’s show Here’s Humphrey, which she hosted beginning in September 1970.
Here’s Humphrey was a Nine Network Australian children’s television series produced by Banksia Productions. It aired from 1965 to 2009 and starred an anthropomorphic brown bear named Humphrey B. Bear. Ozpix Entertainment owns the character and it is still alive and well. The series became a successful preschool show in Australia, was sold overseas, and is now one of the world’s longest-running children’s television programs.
Patsy Biscoe Fat Cat and Friends
She also sang on Fat Cat and Friends, a SAS-10 children’s television show. In October 1980, she encouraged the use of seat belts for children in a South Australian Road Safety Council television ad campaign.
Fat Cat and Friends was an Australian children’s television show starring Fat Cat, a costumed character who is an orange/ginger anthropomorphic cat who wears red braces, a blue bow tie, a green bowler hat, and striped socks. The show aired from 1977 until 1991 before being discontinued under questionable circumstances. However, the Fat Cat caricature is still shown on Perth television as the mascot of the Telethon charity organization.
Patsy Biscoe Career
In October 1980 she advanced wearing safety belts for youngsters in a television promotion crusade by the Street Wellbeing Committee in South Australia. In the wake of resigning from performing, Biscoe turned into a naturopath. She has additionally been Delegate City hall leader of the Barossa Chamber nearby the government region and Seat of the Tanunda Town Advisory group.
Biscoe was made an Individual from the Request for Australia in 2016 for her administration of music and her neighborhood local area. During the mid-1990s, Biscoe was satirized by Adelaide humorist Glynn Nicholas, who played Paté Bread’s roll on the Australian Telecom Organization TV parody show, The Huge Gig.
Biscoe showed up in a few episodes with Nicholas, once tying up Roll and having his spot on the show with Bongo, Bread roll’s hand manikin. She likewise showed up on the show utilizing her own hand manikin, Bongette — the female partner of Bongo. At the point when on screen together, neither Bongo nor Bongette could conceal their fascination for the other. Biscoe was a finalist in the Starflight Global ability journey of the Australian TV program, Bandstand, seeking an abroad outing and a recording contract. She kept her most memorable LP in Sydney in 1965 with CBS records.
