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Gary Edward Lucy (born 27 November 1981 in Chigwell, Essex), is an English television actor and model, best known for his roles as TDC Will Fletcher on ITV police drama The Bill, Kyle Pascoe on Footballers' Wives and on Channel Four teen soap Hollyoaks, as Luke Morgan.

Biography

Acting career

Lucy cut his acting teeth in shows like Grange Hill and Dream Team before getting the role that brought him to public attention, Luke Morgan in Hollyoaks. In this teen soap Lucy undertook a male rape storyline, for which he won the 'Best Newcomer' award at the 2000 British Soap Awards.

Lucy then went on to do three series of the ITV drama Footballers' Wives where he played Kyle Pascoe, a football player for fictional club Earl's Park. This gave him an even higher profile with the British public, partly due to the role and partly due to his offset tabloid escapades. In 2004 Lucy starred alongside Ray Winstone in the ITV drama She's Gone as Micheal Sands.

Whilst playing Kyle Pascoe in Footballers' Wives his on screen mother was Jackie Pascoe Webb, played by Gillian Taylforth. In The Bill, Gillian also plays his Sergeant Nikki Wright.

Gary can currently be seen as DC Will Fletcher in ITV's The Bill, a regular cast member, and has appeared in SkyOne's The Match.

In 2008 ITV commissioned a one-off special called "I love Lucy 2K8." It was essentially a continuation of the popular "An Audience with..." series. Friends, celebrity colleagues and dedicated fans of the actor packed out the Hammersmith Apollo to ask the actor a series of questions. Lucy recounted several showbiz anecdotes, did a dance routine with his "The Bill" colleague Trudie Goodwin, and sang "I got you babe" with Gillian Taylforth.

In 2009 he took part in the one-off ITV drama "Whatever it Takes". In 2009, Gary Lucy resigned from the Bill.^[1]

He is taking part as a contestant in the fifth series of ITV's Dancing on Ice. and has been paired with series regular Maria Fillipov

Personal life

Gary Lucy attended Trinity Catholic High School in Woodford Green.

During his appearance on Footballers Wives, Lucy had a high tabloid profile thanks to his various escapades with females. He won the Bachelor Of The Year award from Company magazine ^[2]

He is currently in a relationship with paediatric nurse Natasha Gray. On 30 August 2005, Gray gave birth to the couple's first child, India Jasmine, at their home in Essex. According to Lucy, they do plan to marry but are in no real rush to do so.

In 2003, a Woman Of The Year competition run by the magazine Slimming World rewarded the nominees with a meeting with Lucy. The eventual winner was a woman who had lost 19 stone.

A motorcycle fan (something he shares with his Bill character), in September 2006 he came off his Honda CBR600RR outside Elstree Studios and badly bruised himself, delaying the filming schedule on The Bill.^[3]

Gary also has built up a number of homes and residential ventures. He has his own company, Gary Lucy Real Estate.^[4]

His latest ventures are a car selling company called Vehicle Text, a cheap and simple way to advertise and buy cars and also more recently Driving Lessons Finder, an internet based directory of driving schools and driving instructors.

Filmography

References

External links

Official Gary Lucy Site

• Gary Lucy at the Internet Movie Database
• Gary Lucy Pics