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Kate Robbins & Beyond
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Kate Robbins (born August 21, 1960 in Liverpool, Lancashire) is an English actress and impressionist. She first came to prominence whilst representing United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with the group Prima Donna. They finished an unexpected third. A second cousin of Paul McCartney, she got her first big break in the ITV soap opera Crossroads in 1981. As part of the storyline, she recorded a single in the Motel's studio called More Than in Love (written by Simon May). When released as a single (in tandem with male group Beyond - themselves a failed Eurovision act), the track got to number two in the UK singles chart. It was included on his compilation album New Vintage: The Best of Simon May in 1994. Robbins dubbed the singing for Jaye Davidson in the 1992 film The Crying Game. Robbins wrote the well-known theme tune to Surprise, Surprise and provided almost all of the female voices on the television show Spitting Image in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The 1986 Granada TV sketch show Robbins featured Kate, her brother comedian Ted Robbins and sisters Amy Robbins, Jane Robbins and Emma Robbins, the latter now best known as one of the singers with The Sheilas. Robbins also provided the British dubbing for the many semi-nude Europeans featured on quirky Channel 4 series Eurotrash and, in 2006, made two appearances on the BBC Radio 4 program Just a Minute. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may ap
