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Bill Bailey writes ‘My Animals, And Other Animals’ memoir

ExclusiveThursday 21st March 2024, 8:15am by Jay Richardson

  • Bill Bailey’s latest book finds the nature lover reflecting upon the animals that he’s shared his life with
  • Published on 10th October, My Animals, And Other Animals reflects on how pets connect us to the world and bring companionship
  • Bailey and his wife share their West London home with a variety of birds, dogs, frogs, chameleons and an armadillo called Tommy

Bill Bailey. Credit: Kris Bailey


Bill Bailey has written a new memoir, about his life with animals, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal.

My Animals, And Other Animals will be published by Quercus on 10th October.

“I’m always wary of llamas” Bailey reveals in an extract from the book, his fourth. “They’re mischievous and smart. I get a sense, when I approach them, that they are conferring . . . as if to say, ‘that’s that block off the telly.'”

The comedian has always had a variety of dogs in his life, including a Lakeland Terrier called Rocky who would travel with him in the van to his first shows and occasionally join him on stage.

Today, the nature lover, who has made several wildlife documentaries and published Bill Bailey’s

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Evil gang of three schoolchildren who ‘behaved like animals’ killed a dog walker, 36, in ‘relentless’ attack that left him with a bisected kidney and broken ribs are jailed for manslaughter

Three teenagers who behaved like a ‘pack of animals’ when they set upon a dog walker – including a 15-year-old girl who filmed on her phone before joining in – were put behind bars today.

John Hackett, 36, was found dead at his home the day after being repeatedly punched and kicked in a recreation ground near his home last April.

The girl and two boys who were also 15-years-old at the time of the attack sat side by side in front of a court dock today as a judge was told how they had been part of a group who had been ‘persistently’ taunting and abusing Mr Hackett as he walked pet Tyson in the weeks leading up to his death.

Video footage of the incident in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was earlier played to a packed court room and showed one of the boys throwing a stick – which Mr Hackett had been using to play fetch with his dog – at the professional driver, before the second male joined in a physical attack.

The court heard the victim was left ‘gasping’ for breath with his ‘eyes rolling back’ after being ‘quickly overpowered’ and placed in a headlock by one

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