Ewen Gilmour
{{short description|New Zealand comedian and television presenter (1963-2014)}}
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David Ewen Gilmour{{cite web |url= http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/super-city-candidates-q-ewen-gilmour-3683650 |title= Super City candidates Q&A: Ewen Gilmour |accessdate= 28 June 2012 |archive-date= 10 December 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191210164643/http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/super-city-candidates-q-ewen-gilmour-3683650 |url-status= live }} (22 January 1963 – 3 October 2014), commonly known as Ewen Gilmour, was a New Zealand comedian and television presenter. Usually sporting long brown hair with a goatee and wearing a jacket and jeans, he was a self-described Westie.
Comedy and television career
Gilmour began his comedy career in 1995, and shared the first Billy T Award with Cal Wilson in 1997.{{cite web |url= http://www.comedy.co.nz/comedians/profiles/ewen-gilmour.aspx |title= The Classic comedy network: Ewen GILMOUR profile |accessdate= 2012-06-28 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120624092630/http://www.comedy.co.nz/comedians/profiles/ewen-gilmour.aspx |archivedate= 24 June 2012 |df= dmy-all }} He won the Decade Award – Best Male Comedian – 2000 to 2010 at the 2010 NZ Comedy Guild Awards. In 2012, he returned to the New Zealand International Comedy Festival "for the first time in a couple of years" with a one-hour show called "S'Truth".{{cite web |url=http://www.ewengilmour.com/news/ |title=ewengilmour.com/news/ |accessdate=2012-06-28 |quote=In each story there is an element of truth. Warning: This show contains content of a purely bullshit nature. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006040155/http://www.ewengilmour.com/news/ |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}
He made numerous appearances on New Zealand television, including Pulp Comedy (1995), Intrepid Journeys – Peru (2003), Celebrity Treasure Island (2003), Dancing with the Stars series one (2005), and Comedy Christmas Cracker (2010).{{cite web |url= http://www.ewengilmour.com/biography/ |title= ewengilmour.com/biography |accessdate= 2012-06-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141005060530/http://www.ewengilmour.com/biography/ |archive-date= 5 October 2014 |url-status= dead }} He was the host of the TV3 show Road Madness, mainly about dangerous driving on New Zealand roads, which first aired in 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.tv3.co.nz/Shows/roadmadness.aspx |title=Road Madness - TV3 page |accessdate=2012-06-28 |archive-date=1 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201162137/http://www.tv3.co.nz/Shows/RoadMadness.aspx |url-status=live }}
Personal life
His wife Catherine Gilmour died on 19 February 2011 at age 36 after a long battle with cancer.{{cite web |url= http://topnews.net.nz/content/212103-wife-ewen-gilmour-died-cancer |title= Wife of Ewen Gilmour Died Of Cancer |author= Neeraj Shahane |date= 2011-02-22 |accessdate= 2012-06-28 |archive-date= 11 February 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160211233311/http://www.topnews.net.nz/content/212103-wife-ewen-gilmour-died-cancer |url-status= live }} Ewen Gilmour resigned from his position at Waitakere City Council in August 2007, after his wife's brain tumor was removed in 2006, so he could care for her.{{cite news |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10707805 |title= Wife of comedian Ewen Gilmour loses cancer battle |date= 21 February 2011 |accessdate= 2012-06-28 |work= The New Zealand Herald |archive-date= 6 October 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141006220918/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10707805 |url-status= live }}
He was also a marriage and civil union celebrant.{{cite web|url=http://www.ewengilmour.com/weddings/|title=ewengilmour.com/weddings/|accessdate=2012-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006040229/http://www.ewengilmour.com/weddings/|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}}
Gilmour died in his sleep at Port Waikato on 3 October 2014, aged 51.{{cite web|title=Kiwi comedian Ewen Gilmour dies unexpectedly|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwi-comedian-ewen-gilmour-dies-unexpectedly-6097576|publisher=TVNZ|accessdate=3 October 2014|archive-date=12 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012010055/https://www.tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwi-comedian-ewen-gilmour-dies-unexpectedly-6097576|url-status=live}}{{cite news | url=http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=david-ewen-gilmour&pid=172694655 | title=David Ewen Gilmour obituary | date=6 October 2014 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=6 October 2014 | archive-date=8 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008214708/http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=david-ewen-gilmour&pid=172694655 | url-status=live }}
See also
References
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Category:New Zealand male comedians
Category:New Zealand television presenters
Category:Comedians from Auckland
Category:Waitakere City Councillors