Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer's Gone Fishing is the most reliable comfort show on TV. (BBC/Owl Power/Marianne Wie) During one of those desolate evenings when The Celebrity Traitors wasn’t on last ...

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Gone Fishing (BBC Two) is about death. The show’s genesis can be traced back to when both men suffered heart problems in 2015, with Bob Mortimer having to undergo emergency triple heart bypass surgery ...

Bob Mortimer has shared an update on his health, revealing he “wasn’t very well” while filming the new series of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. The 65-year-old comedian, who had major heart ...

Welsh comedian and actor Paul Whitehouse has said the success behind the hit series Gone Fishing with Bob Mortimer is because of its origins being based “100% out of real life”. The BBC Two series ...