BAFTA TV Awards host Rob Beckett reveals suicide horror and mental health struggles
12.05.2024 - 08:23
/ ok.co.uk
When comedians and best mates Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan host the BAFTA TV Awards tonight, viewers can be sure they're in safe hands for an evening of laughs. But despite being known for his hilarious jokes on sold-out stand-up tours, frequent TV appearances and hit podcast Lockdown Parenting Hell with fellow comedian Josh Widdicombe, Rob has previously revealed a traumatic past. He has spoken about losing friends to suicide, as well as his own mental health struggles, and detailed how tough it was breaking into comedy from a working-class background in his autobiography A Class Act.
In 2021, Rob, 38, told The Irish Times why he had decided to be so honest about his struggles while writing his autobiography, where he tells how as part of a comedy newcomer award he won a trip to Adelaide including accommodation for the city's month-long comedy festival - but was unable to afford anything while he was there. Rob couldn't afford to get to or from the comedy venue when he arrived in Adelaide, could only manage to buy cereal to eat, and had no money for sunscreen or to see the doctor when he got a chest infection. He wrote in his book: "I am talking proper skint.
Zero pounds in the bank skint," and Rob told The Irish Times: "I was writing that in tears. It was almost like opening a door that I’d locked. "Everything else is just Bulletproof Beckett: boom, do that, bang, bang, bang.
Funny, funny, funny. Write a book now. And then I felt a little door creaking open." The comedian also shares in his book how he sometimes finds himself overwhelmed by dread even after all his success, and shared why he wanted to include his darker moments in the autobiography.
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