Ipswich Town FC Famous Fans

Griff Rhys Jones

Griff Rhys Jones was born in Cardiff where his father was a doctor. The family moved to Sussex and then across the Thames to Epping, Sir Winston Churchill’s old constituency. While at Cambridge University he did a comic turn in The Footlights revue but mostly directed others. He was a BBC radio producer when John Lloyd had a brainwave and asked him to appear on Not the Nine O’Clock News with Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson and Rowan Atkinson.

Keith Deller

Became World Champion from nowhere at the age of 23 and has established himself as one the enduring names on the professional circuit. Keith has been in the top 8 of the World Rankings consistently over the last three years, although struggled to find is form in 2000 and 2001. Looked to have bounced back with a win in the 2001 Eastbourne Pro Open but just two weeks later Keith was rushed into hospital, with a severed carotid artery. He has since made a speedy recovery but hasn't been able to regain his early season form.

Nigel Havers

The aristocratic British actor, with sandy hair and aquiline nose, has advanced from stage roles and film and TV bits in the 1970s to leads in films and --increasingly--TV in the 1980s and 90s. The son of a Lord Chancellor (from 1979-87), Havers acted in a radio show as a child and worked as a researcher before appearing in London stage productions of "Conduct Unbecoming" (1969), "Richard II" (1970).  Another starring role was given Havers in the 1987 docudrama "Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value", as the controversial 19th-century archeologist. His TV work continued to pick up with some excellent leading roles ,Havers played a sexual adventurer, the title role in "The Charmer".

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