£1.5m windfall for Jack and Victor

STILL Game stars Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill are laughing all the way to the bank following the success of their live stage show.

The comedy duo’s companies raked in more than £1.5million last year.

Kiernan and Hemphill reunited in 2014 to bring back lovable pensioners Jack and Victor after a six-year absence following a fall-out.

They performed a record-breaking 21 sell-out shows at Glasgow’s Hydro arena which saw them play in front of 210,000 fans.

Companies House records show their Glasgow-based production firm Effingee has total assets of more than £250,000. The firm declared profits of £227,225 for the 12 months up to April this year. The company also made around £400,000 from the sale of its production offices in Hillington, Glasgow.

Hemphill is also the sole director of another firm, Sickwig Productions, which earned £910,953 last year and made profits of £591,465.

Still Game was broadcast from 2002 to 2007, and the actors are in talks with BBC Scotland about bringing it back to television screens.

Last month Kiernan said: ‘We’re in talks and are a good way towards it but I’ve been warned not to mention any more than that.’