Personal Life
Abbot was the fifth of six sons born to Betty and Don. His siblings are John, Donald, Derek, Stuart and Neil. Abbot's parents met when his father (who earned a living as a salesman), played cornet in a bluecoat band for a party at the Duke of Westminsters' estate in Chester, where his mother was a ladies maid for the Dukes household. Abbot is of Scottish heritage through his mother, who was born in Falkirk.
Abbot passed his eleven plus at Hoole & Newton Jnr School and moved onto Chester City Grammar School. As a young drummer, Abbot joined Adam & the Apples, The Buccaners, Johnny Gibson & the D Notes and then the Black Abbots. He worked part-time backstage at the Royalty Theatre, Chester and in 1965, the Black Abbots took residency there. Whilst Abbot was there, he met Denis Critchley with whom he learnt the craft of comedy.
Abbot met his wife Trish backstage at a Black Abbots gig and in 1966, they married. They went on to have four children; Gary, Richard, Christopher and Erika. He has two grandchildren; Laine and Charlotte.
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