Brian Hibbard

Brian Hibbard was a Welsh actor and singer best remembered as the lead vocalist in the original Flying Pickets Following the groups success in the early 1980s Hibbard went on to pursue a career as a television actor appearing in Coronation Street as garage mechanic Doug Murray in Emmerdale as BobbyJohn Downes and as Johnny Mac in the Welshlanguage soap Pobol y Cwm He was in the 1997 film Twin Town as the selfstyled Karaoke King Dai Rees He also appeared in the drama serial Making Out in the Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen in comedy in The Armando Ianucci Shows and in the film Rancid Aluminium