Simon O'Brien (born 19 June 1965) is a British television actor and radio presenter, as well as a property developer, from Liverpool, England.
He portrayed the Lighthouse Keeper called BJ in the much acclaimed musical puppet TV series.
He has since returned to acting and presenting, with a short-lived football quiz show, Do I Not Know That?, on ITV Digital,[6] co-presenting the BBC One show To Buy or Not to Buy, as well as playing caretaker Wally Scott in Grange Hill from 2003.
O'Brien presented BBC Radio Merseyside's breakfast show with Lucinda Moore from September 2006 until 25 June 2007, when he resigned after the accidental broadcast of a promotional preview clip of a forthcoming radio show of him saying "fuck the government, fuck the planners".
[8] In 2022, O'Brien appeared on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as guest character Frank Bardsley.