Happy 90th birthday Bernie Clifton! Hat's off to a Crackerjack legend, Aquarius compere and The Voice contestant
Evergreen entertainer and Crackerjack legend Bernie Clifton is 90 years old today and has been inundated with good wishes, cards and gifts.
On his weekly broadcast on Facebook on Sunday, he told viewers that he had received several cards and presents which were being kept in a safe.
Bernie, who lives in Barlow, has had a remarkable 90 years in which he met Queen Elizabeth II and many a famous star.
Born during the Second World War, one of Bernie’s earliest memories was of a bomb dropping on the street where he lived in St Helen’s, Lancashire.
Bernie sang with a band as a teenager at a Co-op dance hall and found fame during the Seventies on the children’s series Crackerjack with his sidekick Oswald the Ostrich
He was 79 when he went on television talent show The Voice. While in his eighties, Bernie did a show in Las Vegas where he was given a standing ovation and published his autobiography Crackerjack to Vegas in 2024.
Bernie moved to Chesterfield more than 60 years ago where he initially worked as a vacuum cleaner salesman and later opened a joke shop in the town centre.
He was compere at the Aquarius nightclub and was tasked with booking the acts of which the most notable was Cannon and Ball.
The Derbyshire Times has reached out to birthday boy Bernie for a comment on how he is celebrating his special day. We guess he’s too busy blowing out all those candles as we haven’t yet received a reply.