Seann Walsh

Early life Walsh was born in Camden in London and in his early years lived in Lewisham with his mother, father and younger brother. Throughout Walsh's upbringing, his father was addicted to smoking heroin and Walsh has spoken about this experience in his stand-up comedy specials "Kiss" and "Seann Walsh: Is Dead, Happy Now?". His father would regularly take his sons to Queens Park Rangers F.C. Walsh and his brother remain supporters of QPR, he has described the stadium, as his "happy place". Walsh senior, worked as a planning engineer, including on the extension to the Jubilee line, and he also worked for the British Rail project, developing the concept of tilting trains.

Whilst in London his family "moved about quite a bit" and one of the primary schools he attended, was St Winifreds R.C. Primary school, in Lewisham. His family then moved from London, to Brighton, to accommodate his mother's work and it was there, he attended, Dorothy Stringer School, leaving the community school with a single GCSE examination pass in Drama. He has spoken of being hyperactive and a habit of regularly using cannabis at school, he was subject to suspension, several times.

During his youth, Walsh would often watch films starring Jim Carrey and the experience sparked his interest in writing and performing, comedy stand-up. and he performed his first gig in November 2006. and Chortle Best Newcomer (2009). Walsh supported Stephen K. Amos on his 2008/09 Find the Funny and 2009/10 The Feelgood Factor tours,

In 2008 Walsh attended the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the first time participating in the So You Think You're Funny newcomers competition as well as performing at the Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival Walsh has further commented on his experiences with nerves in interviews with the media

Walsh performed both his 2012 show Seann to Be Wild and his 2013 show The Lie-In King at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as touring the country with both.

In 2013, Walsh attended a stand-up comedy competition in Brighton and saw Romesh Ranganathan performing and asked Ranganathan if he could be his warm up act on his stand up tour. Whilst on tour in 2013 Walsh would also appear on Stand Up for the Week and he was able to get Ranganathan a stand up gig as a warm up act for a press launch they were doing for the show and the producers of Live at the Apollo watched the gig Ranganathan performed at and later asked him to appear on series 9 of Live at the Apollo which was his first stand up TV performance.

He has also performed his solo show on tour with fellow comedian Josh Widdicombe in a tour titled Ying and Young.

From 2011 to 2013, Walsh appeared as a regular contributor on Stand Up for the Week, On the show two teams are shown viral videos from the internet and they are then asked questions about them as well having to act out tasks in the same way that they're being done in the videos Walsh was the scorekeeper on Play to the Whistle for three series and in series two he also became the host's assistant.

From 2017 to 2018, Walsh presented a weekly show on FUBAR Radio with comedian Mark Simmons that gave a comedic view of current events in the media.

From 8 September 2018, Walsh participated in the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing with professional dance partner Katya Jones. Early in the series, it was reported that he had become romantically involved with Jones despite both of them being in long-term relationships, and his popularity suffered as a result. Walsh and Jones did an interview with Zoe Ball following the controversy, where after a televised grilling from Ball, Walsh apologised. The couple were voted out in Week 6.

For six episodes in 2013, he presented the TV show Seann Walsh World In the show contestants are put in circumstances that are discomforting, painful and scary, with the goal being to not flinch as if they do, the contestants receive a painful consequence and the hosts, who are being represented by the contestants, receive points.

In 2022, Walsh participated in Series 22 of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! on ITV1, and finished in 5th place. In 2026, he returned to appear in the spin-off show I'm a Celebrity... South Africa, which also aired on ITV1 and in this spin-off show memorable contestants from previous series return to the show which is now located in South Africa and they participate in survival trials to choose who is going to be eliminated from the show with only the winner being chosen by a public vote. Walsh was eliminated first after Harry Redknapp was asked to eliminate one of the team members on his team, as he had been made the team leader and had lost an eating trial he participated in against Jimmy Bullard, a member of the opposing team. In a now-viral tweet, Humphries stated that Walsh had called her “mental” and “psycho” for voicing her suspicions about his relationship with Jones in the weeks leading up to the incident.

In her 2022 memoir Why Did You Stay?, Humphries wrote that Walsh had reacted similarly when confronted about other instances of inappropriate behaviour throughout their five-year relationship. Humphries described Walsh as an emotionally abusive, controlling, and aggressive partner, and stated that several women had come forward following the Strictly scandal to reveal Walsh’s numerous past affairs. Walsh subsequently incorporated his experiences on Strictly into his standup act.

Walsh is married to Grace Adderley a dance teacher, whom he met by chance in 2019, at a London Underground Station. He later re-enacted the first time they saw each other, with a romantic proposal of marriage. Walsh supports Queens Park Rangers F.C..

Once Walsh became old enough to attend pubs and bars he would regularly go drinking with his friends and he includes his past experiences, of being drunk and having hangovers in his stand-up routines.

Appearances Television

Film Year Title Role Notes 2016 The Drunk: Getting Home Main character Also writer, producer and editor. Short Film 2021 Clown Charlie Holmes Also writer and producerShort film 2022 The Bystanders Frank

Radio Loose Ends v BBC Radio 4 (March 2009) The Jon Richardson Show – BBC 6 Music (November 2009) Nick Grimshaw's Radio Show – BBC Radio 1 (June 2010) Matt Forde's Show – Talksport Radio (May & June 2010) Act Your Age – BBC Radio 4 (April 2011) Scott Mills Radio Show - Innuendo Bingo – BBC Radio 1 (10 April 2015), (27 January 2017) News-ish with Seann Walsh and Mark Simmons - FUBAR Radio (2017 - 2018)

Podcasts

Class Clown - Spotify, YouTube, Apple Pocasts, Play Podcasts (2025 - 2026)

Tours Year Title Shows Notes 2012–2013 Seann To Be Wild 80 dates DVD release 2014 The Lie-In King 2016 One for the Road 64 dates 2019 After This One, I'm Going Home 88 shows 2022 Seann Walsh is Dead. Happy Now? 63 shows Debut at Edinburgh Fringe 2023–2024 Back from the Bed TBC 2026 This is Torture February - October 2026

Online releases Show Release date Platform Notes Kiss 27 March 2022 Released on YouTube Seann Walsh is Dead, Happy Now? 7 April 2024 Released on YouTube Back From The Bed 15 December 2024 Released on YouTube

Awards Winner: Chortle award, best show 2023 Winner: Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2009 Winner: Chortle Awards Best Newcomer 2009 Second place: Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2009 Runner-up: Amused Moose Laugh Off 2008 Runner-up: So You Think You're Funny 2008