30-04-2025
Jim Moir: ‘I stopped wanting to play Vic Reeves'
Moir, 66, was born in Leeds and grew up in Darlington. After a mechanical engineering apprenticeship and an art foundation course, he joined the comedy circuit under the stage name Vic Reeves. With Bob Mortimer he created TV shows including Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Shooting Stars. An accomplished artist, he has a son and daughter from his previous marriage and 18-year-old twin daughters with his wife, Nancy Sorrell. The couple live in Kent.
I like to get four hours' painting in by 10am, so I'm in my studio at the bottom of our garden at 6. Halfway through I'll have breakfast: blueberries and yoghurt, occasionally a hard-boiled egg. I grew up on muesli — my mum reckoned
