Bill Nighy

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3,810 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 5d ago

Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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ill-advised by Bill Nighy · I Don't Get Out Much · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

Because Willy obviously is a slang term for male genitalia.

There are worse slang terms for male genitalia than Willy, but it's also my name.

So you can imagine that can be problematic over the years, depending on, you know, particularly at school.

Given that they couldn't do my second name either, so I would be Niggie,

or Nige or Nux.

I used to be called Nux because I had funny hands.

So they would call me Nux Nye, which was another thing.

And of course, Nervous, as we've talked about before.

Nobody ever asked me when I got my first job as a professional actor, nobody ever asked me, what do you like to be called?

So they just put Bill Nye in the program and

And I never thought, I didn't think anything about it.

So there I was and I was Bill.

And then when I worked on a little bit and had a few jobs and I got a job on the radio, BBC Radio 4, and they actually said to me, what do you like to be called?

And I said, I thought, oh, here we are.

Because when I was a kid, I thought William was a bit, you know, naff.

But as I grew older, I thought it sounded quite cool.

You know, it's quite distinguished, William.

And BBC Radio were the first people who ever asked me this question and they said, what do you like to be called?

And I said, well, I'd like to be called William Nye.

Sorry, that's mispronouncing my name.

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