Education
Growing up, Tarbuck attended Dovedale Primary School in Liverpool where he was a schoolmate of John Lennon.
Growing up, Tarbuck attended Dovedale Primary School in Liverpool where he was a schoolmate of John Lennon.
He was a host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the early 1960s, and for his numerous hostings of game and quiz shows on Independent Television during the 1960s, and for leading Independent Television"s Live From Her Majesty"s and its subsequent incarnations during the 1980s. His first television show was lieutenant"s Tarbuck "65! on Independent Television in 1964, and he was the last original host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium, from 1965. In the 1980s, he hosted similar Sunday night variety shows, Live From Her Majesty"s, Live from the Piccadilly and finally Live from the Palladium, which were produced by London Weekend Television for Independent Television. Nicknamed Tarby, he is a Conservative Party supporter, and at the height of his celebrity was a prominent supporter of Margaret Thatcher and her policies, once baking her a cake for her 60th birthday in October 1985.
He was appearing on the fourth series of British Broadcasting Corporation One"s Strictly Come Dancing in 2006, but he was forced to pull out for medical reasons.
In 2008, he returned to a variety format on television screens when he co-hosted, alongside Emma Bunton, an edition of ITV1"s variety show, Foreign One Night Only. On 25 May 2012 he appeared on Piers Morgan"s Life Stories while on 3 December 2012 he was invited to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Variety Performance.
On 26 April 2013, North Yorkshire Police arrested Tarbuck over an alleged sexual assault on a young boy in the 1970s. On 24 March 2014, the force announced he had been released without charge.
As of 2016 he continues to tour clubs around the United Kingdom with his comedy routine, sometimes as a double act with Kenny Lynch.