Paul Lavers

Paul Lavers (born 1950) is a British film, television and stage actor. He has been a presenter for Anglia Television and for several shopping channels.

Early life and career Paul Lavers was born in Bristol in 1950, the son of Josephine (née Richards) and Frank Lavers. He was born with an esophageal condition that prevented him from eating solid food, and underwent surgery at 16 to repair it.

On leaving drama school he appeared as David Teal in an episode of The Onedin Line (1972) following which he had a season at the Library Theatre in Manchester. Lavers appeared in She Stoops to Conquer (1973–1974) at the Little Theatre, Bristol, Jumpers (1973–1974), Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1973-1974), and Othello (1973-1974), all at the Bristol Old Vic.

For Yorkshire Television Lavers played James Lamert in Dickens of London (1976) and Aspinall in an episode of the BBC drama When the Boat Comes In (1976). He appeared in The Blue Poster for Norway TV, starred as Jack Worthing at Westcliff Palace Theatre in The Importance of Being Earnest and then appeared at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester in She Stoops to Conquer. In 1977 he played the Infantry Major in Wings, and after playing Farrah in the Doctor Who story The Androids of Tara (1978) he spent three months at the English Theatre in Vienna playing Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest.

In 1993 Paul started working for home shopping channels. He was at QVC from 1993 to 2000 and then moved to Ideal World in 2000.

While working for Friendly TV in 2003, Lavers inadvertently broadcast a rumour that he believed Nicole Kidman to be gay, after his microphone was left open during a commercial break. The presenters apologised when they learned that this had been accidentally broadcast. while in June 2016 he appeared with the Theatre Royal Summer Repertory Theatre in Windsor as Charlie Clench in One Man, Two Guvnors and Doctor Maurice Young in Deadly Nightcap. In October 2016 he appeared opposite his wife Érin Geraghty in a production of Bedroom Farce at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage. In May 2018 he returned to the Gordon Craig Theatre as Rod Trusser in Alan Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch and in November the same year he appeared as Harvey in Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings at the same venue.

Lavers played Sultan Mustaffa-Biscuit in the pantomime Aladdin at the Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre in December 2016.

In 2020 Lavers played Admiral von Schreiber in a UK and Ireland tour of The Sound of Music. Venues visited include Dublin, Derry, Sunderland, Blackpool, Bradford, Wolverhampton, Woking, Milton Keynes, Crawley, Eastbourne, Sheffield and Chester.

In 2022 he toured with Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl in a stage version of Catch Me If You Can.

Film roles Lavers' film roles include: Anaesthetist in The Pump (1980), Felton Matthew in This Living Hand (1981), Rodney Connors in Photo Shoot (2009), Highlight News anchor in SuperBob (2015), Mr Dunne in The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2014), and Priest in the Bollywood film Housefull 3 (2016).

Personal life During an early 1970s season at the Library Theatre in Manchester, he met his first wife, Monica Garvey, The couple had two sons. The marriage was later dissolved. In 1980 Lavers married his second wife, actress Érin Geraghty. with whom he had triplet daughters.