IMPORTANT NOTICE:
With reference to the recent BBC programme "Clowns":
Clowns and children's entertainers have reacted with anger to last night's (7th April 2008) BBC2 programme "Clowns" which featured swearing, drinking and even violence to children.
Equity Council member Rhubarb the Clown has commented: "Firstly most of the performers featured were not even clowns, in spite of the name of the programme, and secondly the programme appeared to set out to give children's entertainers a bad name.
"The overwhelming majority of children's entertainers are responsible professionals. Parents and others who want a children's entertainer need to know that if they find one from Equity's own directory
(http://www.equity.org.uk/entertainers.aspx) they will get a professional performer who has signed up to a rigorous code of conduct."
Mr and Mrs Custard - children's entertainers Bob Riley and Julie Grant - added: "We would like to state publicly how disgusted we were with the BBC documentary that was supposed to be about clowns and children's entertainers. The fact that they featured a "children's entertainer" using foul and disgusting language on national television is a disgrace.
"Please do not think that the Clown featured on the BBC2 programme on the 7th April 2008 represents in any shape or form the professional children's entertainer."
Equity's Variety Advisory Committee will be holding an emergency discussion on "Clowns at its meeting tomorrow.
Clown Bluey agrees completely with the above views and is joining the increasing band of professional children's enetertainers who are making appropriate complaints to the BBC.
Bluey is an experienced award-winning international professional entertainer available for all types of venues and events including Children’s Party Shows / Corporate Functions / Outside Galas & Fetes / Shopping Promotions, Shopping entertainment, Street entertainment and Parades etc. Bluey has, over 30 years, travelled throughout the world entertaining all types of audiences from the very young at heart right up to senior citizens! He provides Entertainment at birthday parties, open days, celebrations, fairs, county shows, theatres, Clubs, Jazz Clubs, Weddings, Christenings and all events in between! Bluey will provide excellent professional entertainment for any event anywhere including London, United Kingdom (or elswhere in Britain or overseas), not just in Southampton or Hampshire. A lot of fun is guaranteed at this Hampshire U.K. entertainer's children's parties -sometimes with his funny crazy Fire Engine CLOWN CAR or magic (Bluey always gets the magic wrong and children love to help get it right!), slapstick, music (which can include banjo, saxophone, 20 note Trueman Organ and even musical saw!). Additionally, Bluey's entertainments may also include stilt walking, parachute games, balloon modelling / sculpturing / twisting / bending (and you will not believe Bluey's balloon clown fish!) and other fun things like bubble shows and circus skills workshops (including clown, plate spinning and balloon modelling - you too could learn to twist a balloon clown fish!!!).
Bluey is located in Southampton, Hampshire, UK and performs shows all over the UK and other countries. Bluey as a Party Clown can offer Birthday party entertainment only in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, West Sussex and South London. Although having never worked as a circus clown, Bluey has guest-performed for Zippo's Circus (London, United Kingdom) and has performed in Circus Big Tops in Holland, Austria and Germany.
Please see Bluey's other pages on this website for full descriptions of available acts, references, clown pictures and photographs. Have a look at all of Bluey's different clown characters and clown costumes! Why not contact Bluey today and have a magical birthday party or event with the UK and Hampshire's favourite clown? Bluey can also provide additional performers for that special event: Flossie stilt walks and is an excellent face painter. Conk performs with Bluey and together these two crazy buffoons can offer slapstick comedy, musical mayhem, workshops and general idiot sillyness either in set show pieces or al fresco mix and mingle and meet and greet scenarios. Bluey also performs as "B.B.", his non-clown character. He is especially welcomed at Corporate Dinners, Company Events, Restaurants etc where a clown entertainer may not be considered suitable.
Bluey is a member of Clowns International and also an Equity Member. He provides Children's Entertainment for all ages of children as well as corporate entertainment, shopping mall entertainment and can also offer circus skills and balloon workshops, face painting, bubble shows and musical slapstick acts. His CLOWN CAR, 'Fire 1' in Bluey's "Crazy Fire Engine Show" is a must for any small outside Gala, Open Day, County Show or Fete, whilst his great little Fire Engine can also be used in promotions of all kinds.
Bluey's Crazy Fire Engine CLOWN CAR, 'FIRE 1' is a favourite with audiences the length and breadth of the U.K. and is a great draw with children and adults alike. Lots and lots of clown slapstick fun - see Bluey get soaked by numerous buckets of water by Flossie Fleabag, the (un)helpful Fire Dog (2nd Class Rough Crufts!)! 'FIRE 1' can also be booked for promotions and al fresco meet and greet occasions.
Bluey has not only travelled the world entertaining children and adults, he is also an award-winning professional entertainer and has won numerous awards for his performing skills. He has represented Great Britain at the prestigious "Clown D'oro" in Sicily and also performed for Princess Stephanie of Monaco in the Princess Grace Theatre (see Bluey's Awards Page). He is a member of the committee for Clowns International, an Hon Vice President for that organisation and is also a long standing member of Equity. Whatever your event, you are sure to have a fun-filled birthday party or event with Bluey, an entertainer with many years of professional entertaining experience.
Bluey looks forward to performing at your birthday party (Hampshire and surrounding areas only) and at your event anywhere in the U.K. or overseas. As a full-time professional performer, he is fully covered with Public Liability Insurance and is CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) Registered.
Please have a browse through Bluey's extensive web site: he aims to make it fun and informative and in this regard you can find fun intructions on how to make balloon sculptures, a section on the History of Clowns, other interesting facts, figures and articles about clowns and the circus world, and, coming soon: individual biographies of famous professional clowns of the past.
For more information or enquiries to book Clown Bluey (or B.B. - his non-clown persona), with or without Flossie, Nina, or Conk, please contact the numbers or e-mail address below.
A giggle is a smile that tickles
A laugh is a smile that bursts
