Bob Mortimer

About Bob Mortimer

He went to King’s Manor School in Middlesbrough, where his schoolmates included Ali Brownlee (a future sports presenter). He had trials for local team Middlesbrough FC, as he’s a keen football fan, however abandoned his dreams of footballing because of early onset rheumatoid arthritis. This gives him great pain when he gets stressed, particularly just before embarking on a tour or making a television series. On these occasions, he will control it with steroids. Bob left school with three A-Levels and would go on to study law at the University of Sussex and the University of Leicester. While there, he got involved with political causes and the punk movement, even starting a group called Dog Dirt. After he left university with an LLM in Welfare Law, he moved to London and became a solicitor