Usually sporting long brown hair with a goatee and wearing a jacket and jeans, he was a self-described Westie.
Gilmour began his comedy career in 1995,[2] and shared the first Billy T Award with Cal Wilson in 1997.
[3] 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".
[5] His wife Catherine Gilmour died on 19 February 2011 at age 36 after a long battle with cancer.
[6] 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.