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Grant Philpott
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TV Producer/Director/Scenic Artist. Harry Hill’s TV Burp. Alright on the Night. TV Showdown. The Word. The BIG Breakfast. Southend-on-Sea Wallpaper. www.grantphilpott.co.uk
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Grant Philpott @grantphilpott.bsky.social · Feb 24
I’m available for TV PD/SP/EP jobs, but also looking to pivot to digital art. I’m currently developing a spec animated feature, but would appreciate any paid work. If you’re looking for a creative illustrator/storyboarder (40+ years Art & 30+ years TV & Animation experience) please get in touch.
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"You're a big, fat, smelly nonce"
October 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Sad news about Ricky Hatton. He was a great sport when he came to play on TV Burp. RIP x
September 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge- 1995
#pen #ink #watercolour #art #sketchbook
September 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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They do sound excited.
August 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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21 years ago x
holding my baby daughter, looking at her, looking at me
August 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I spent 6 months coming up with concept designs for an animated film, which I signed an NDA for, only to be ghosted. Emails and calls ignored. The guy has limited social media presence and might be dead for all I know. Either way it’s sad.
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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It's launch day for David Quantick's latest book, an anthology of short stories. The fastest comedy writer I've ever known. Hey, maybe this will have been written so quickly it'll be SHIT! It won't though, will it? It'll be brilliant. Fuck him. Buy this. ❤️

www.waterstones.com/book/9781738...
And Other Stories by David Quantick | Waterstones
Buy And Other Stories by David Quantick from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Cheese and Pineapple Crudity
My friend made party cheese and pineapple on sticks. The square of pineapple at the top represents hair and the square of Red Leicester cheese- which has an angry expression carved into it - represents the face of the good friend of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump. Trump’s small dick energy is represented by a cocktail stick with a little US flag at one end and at the other a tiny prick #Trump #Epstein #Maxwell
August 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Why does it look like Cocker’s about to shout “POPPADOMS OR BREAD?!” at someone?
August 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Lennon’s on sale again
Lennon and The Beatles T shirts on sale at Primark
July 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Mad to think Let It Be was only 15 years old #liveaid
July 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Tiny Dictator Energy #NoKings #FlagDay #PeacefulProtest #Pride #1stAmendment #Taco #Trump #TinyDictatorEnergy #LaughingStock #Covfefe #Cunt
Text reads "After Pentagon estimates $175 million cost to mobilize troops & hold birthday parade, there's no money left for binoculars." Main photo of Trump mimes using binoculars, surrounded by vignettes of other Dictators using binoculars to look important, including Putin, Hitler, Mussolini, Kim Jong Un, Marcos, Ceausescu, Pinochet, Dark Helmet and Putin.
June 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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TV Burp fanz! A couple of my and the chief's meaningful inshites into the writing process, generously relayed by @richardosman1.bsky.social in the excellent Rest Is Entertainment pod this week.

youtu.be/8oDUDgDaClI?...
Which Celebrities NEED Media Training?
YouTube video by The Rest Is Entertainment
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June 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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One of the last great Beach Boys songs xxx
The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made The Radio
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO
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June 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Really sad about Brian Wilson, but glad I got to see the unbelievable pinch me 2012 Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion at Wembley xxx
The Beach Boys – review
Mike Love may be sacking Brian Wilson after this final show, but when they sing together these elderly Boys remain irresistible, writes Michael Hann
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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As it’s Pride Month, I’m proud to say I’m bisexual. I’ve had a busy few months coming out to friends and family, and had nothing but love and support. For me, coming out later in life, has been overwhelmingly positive and freeing and allows me to be true to myself and others X #Pride #PrideMonth
June 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I don’t know what led me to play Maroon yesterday, it still sounds amazing, and I see it came out 25 years ago today x
Album cover of #Maroon #WebbBrothers
June 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Roll Up! My Southend-on-Sea Wallpaper is available in Charcoal or Rose. Contact me for details, thanks Grant x
#Southend #Wallpaper #Essex #Estuary #InteriorDesign #Art #Landmarks #Kursaal #Rossi #CrookedHouse #GoldenHind #SouthendPier #Easyjet
A charcoal version of wallpaper employing hand drawn pen and ink and watercolour illustrations by Grant Philpott, depicting various landmarks, buildings and features of Southend-on-Sea past and present. The buildings featured include Southchurch Hall, The Kursaal, The Palace Hotel, The Crooked House, The former Pier Bowling Lanes, Rossi's High Street Ice Cream kiosk, The former chimney on Grain, The Cliff Lift and other Southend adjacent objects including an Easyjet Plane, a Maersk container ship, the Mulberry Harbour, ice cream, deckchairs, seafood, cockles, mussels, winkles, groynes and gulls. A rose version of wallpaper employing hand drawn pen and ink and watercolour illustrations by Grant Philpott, depicting various landmarks, buildings and features of Southend-on-Sea past and present. The buildings featured include Southchurch Hall, The Kursaal, The Palace Hotel, The Crooked House, The former Pier Bowling Lanes, Rossi's High Street Ice Cream kiosk, The former chimney on Grain, The Cliff Lift and other Southend adjacent objects including an Easyjet Plane, a Maersk container ship, the Mulberry Harbour, ice cream, deckchairs, seafood, cockles, mussels, winkles, groynes and gulls.
April 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I once found myself sat indoors at a rainy Glasgow BBQ mid 90s, on a sofa next to George Wendt, watching The Lion King in a TV room of kids #RIPGeorgeWendt
May 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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ENO turned 77 today. His actual full name is Brian Peter George St. John de Baptiste de la Salle English National Opera.
May 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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My Amish Rolf Harris hasn't aged well
#TVBurp
May 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Finally finished #MAFSAU
Tony Hancock in The Blood Donor asks “Do you get a badge?”
May 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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‘Plastic World’
Acrylic on canvas (2014)
#acrylic #painting #art #artist
Acrylic painting of people inside a fast food burger restaurant at night. It is dark outside but the lights are on inside the restaurant. A woman sits by a window seat looking out. A man looks at the different pictures of burgers and fast food on the menu above the counter. The staff wear hats and serve their customers. A father is having a meal at a table with his young daughter.
May 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Space Baby- 2015
​127 X 101 cm
Acrylic on canvas
#acrylic #art #painting
A baby in a spacesuit floats in space. Acrylic painting on canvas by Grant Philpott
May 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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‘On the Ray’
Acrylic 2014

#acrylic #painting #art
Three young girls walk out across the mudflats in the #Estuary on a #warm #sunny day. Acrylic painting by Grant Philpott
May 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM