Brenda Gilhooly is an English

England

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 comedian

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. She studied English and Drama at the University College of Swansea, University of Wales and graduated in 1987. She is best known for portraying the large breasted character Gayle Tuesday, an archetypal dumb blonde

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 and Page Three girl

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. She enjoyed brief success with this character appearing on various TV shows.

She first appeared on UK

United Kingdom

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 television in 1991 with Channel 4

Channel 4

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 series Remote Control and then with !Viva Cabaret! in 1993, alongside similar character-based acts such as Lily Savage

Paul O'Grady

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 and Bob Downe

Mark Trevorrow

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. She has since appeared on shows such as The Jack Dee Show and Lily Live!

Lily Live!

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, as well as her own series Gayle's World in 1996.

Most of her recent appearances have been as characters other than Gayle Tuesday, notably on Harry Hill's TV Burp

Harry Hill's TV Burp

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on which she is a writer as well as an occasional performer.

Gilhooly returned to television as Gayle Tuesday in 2010 with the Living series Gayle Tuesday: The Comeback.