A far cry from the once-lavish lifestyle
Tommy Cannon has been declared bankrupt.
The 78-year-old comedy star admitted he had been living hand-to-mouth for a decade, but shrugged off the bankruptcy, filed in Birmingham this week, saying: Its embarrassing but just one of those things.
In the 1980s, he and Bobby Ball attracted TV audiences of 20million, which afforded them a lavish lifestyle. They bought matching Rolls-Royces, beachfront homes in the Canary Islands, and cabin cruisers. Cannon even bought the Rochdale football club.
But after their TV series was cancelled in 1992, they were faced with a tax bill of £1.9million in today’s money, for which they…
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