Kate Robbins

Kate Robbins (born in Margate, Kent) is an English actress, comedian, singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in the early 1980s when she scored a No.2 hit on the UK Charts with the song "More Than in Love", She went on to become a prolific voice actress, most notably for nine years with the satirical show Spitting Image. Robbins is a first cousin once removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of fellow actress Amy Robbins (her mother and McCartney were first cousins). She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls in Bebington, Cheshire. Robbins wrote the first 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 Television sketch show Kate & Ted's Show featured Kate, her brother Ted Robbins, and her sisters Amy Robbins, Jane Robbins, and Emma Robbins. Granada TV then commissioned The Kate Robbins Show in 1987 She participated in the 1989 Children's Royal Variety