Kitty Bluett

Kitty Bluett was the daughter of English comedian Fred George Bluett and Catherine McKechnie. She had one sister Belle who was married to comedian Jimmy Jewel. She had one brother Gus who became part of his father's act. Kitty was born in Brixton, London at the height of a Zeppelin raid. At the age of 10 weeks, she was taken by her family back to Australia. She became a top radio star down under where she was the professional partner of Dick Bentley and at one time was Australia's top female disc jockey. She married Walter Robert Portingale during the forties and divorced him in January 1947 on the grounds that he refused to provide a home for her and was not sympathetic to her career aspirations. In 1948 she came to England and became as household name on radio playing comedian Ted Ray's wife in "Ray's a Laugh" during the fifties. She married secondly Julian Jover, acrobat and Variety performer, in 1955 and with him had a daughter named Jodie who was born in the last quarter of 1958 in Sussex, England. The family went back to Australia where Jover became a highly successful children's television producer and was as of 2006 remarried to Lynn and living in Bunderberg, Australia. Kitty had divorced him and moved back to England where she died as Kathleen Zeppy Jover in Colchester at age 78.