Alison Spittle

Spittle was born in Harrow, London. Spittle's father was a builder. The family moved frequently, including to Dresden, Germany, before moving to Spittle's mother's ancestral home of County Westmeath, Tyrrellspass, Mullingar and finally Ballymore at age eight. She attended secondary school in Moate. ==Career==

Graduating from college in Dublin, She has performed at the Edinburgh and Dublin fringe festivals, Spittle wrote and starred in web comedy shorts for RTÉ Two, and in sketches for Republic of Telly with Kevin McGahern. She was a regular contributor to The Right Hook with George Hook on Newstalk. She is also a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Francis-White. In 2016 she created the Alison Spittle Show podcast hosted by HeadStuff.org, which she hosted until the podcast's end in 2020. She appeared in the 2019 comedy film Extra Ordinary. In 2020, she and fellow comedian Fern Brady started a podcast for the BBC called Wheel of Misfortune. Brady left the podcast in early 2021 and Spittle hosted the show with guests until Kerry Katona became permanent co-host in November 2022. The podcast ended in 2023. In November 2023, she appeared on game show ''Richard Osman's House of Games''. Nowhere Fast In 2017, she co-wrote a six-part sitcom Nowhere Fast with her boyfriend Simon Mulholland. The series was directed by Simon Gibney. The series began in November 2017, and was generally well received by critics and viewers. ==References==