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My partner, Andrie Reid, who has died aged 73, appeared on British TV in the 1980s as a dancer and actor, as well as on stage in dance shows, operas and plays.

Her main TV roles were in The Kenny Everett Television Show and as a presenter, singer and dancer in a Thames TV children’s series called Words, Words, Words (1985). On Everett’s show she appeared in 19 episodes, mainly in short sketches – including in the role of Ebony, the daughter of a family called the Drains.

As a dancer/actor on TV, Andrie was also in Nice to See You! (1981) with Bruce Forsyth, The Two Ronnies, Danger: Marmalade at Work (1984), The Wall Game (1985-86), and T.Bag and the Revenge of the T.Set (1989).

Later in life she became a well-loved personality at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London as a meeter-and-greeter and attentive host to visiting musicians.

Born in Frankfield in Jamaica, Andrie arrived in the UK aged eight, after her stepfather, Lester Reid, a cobbler by trade in Jamaica, had found work as a bus driver in Britain and sent for her and her mother, Reva (nee Stewart), a seamstress and part-time hairdresser.

Andrie enjoyed a lively childhood with a large extended family in Manchester, and was head girl at Old Trafford girls’ school. After studying at the Manchester School of Art (now part of Manchester Metropolitan University) she went to Camberwell College of Arts in London in 1970, before completing an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1976.

Though her love of art continued, she was even more interested in the stage, and despite having no formal training it was as a dancer that she began to make her living.

She became a founding member of the pioneering black dance group the MAAS Movers in London in 1977, and in 1980 spent time in France in Dougie Squires’ Second Generation, a dance show. The following year she became part of a disco fashion show touring more than 100 German cities and was a dancer in Flic Flac, a poetic vaudeville touring Europe.

In the UK, Andrie performed in touring revues such as The Mad Show and The Unipart 1982 Roadshow, and in 1983, at the height of her work with Everett, with the English National Opera at the Coliseum in London as a dancer/actor in Toussaint.

She also had ensemble roles in two other operas, The Ice Break (1979) and Samson et Dalila (1981), both at Covent Garden, and in 1989 appeared in the Temba theatre company’s production of Kamau Brathwaite’s Mother Poem at the Drill Hall in London.

When the dancing and acting work dried up, Andrie went to Ronnie Scott’s in 1991 as a waitress before moving up to become a meeter-and-greeter, hosting guests and looking after the musicians. After retirement in 2014 she continued to visit Ronnie’s regularly.

She had many friends but never owned a mobile phone or laptop, so the only way for most people to meet up with her was to bump into her at a music venue, festival or pub. We met at the 100 Club in London in 1995, and soon became a couple, travelling to watch music across Europe and the US.

Andrie is survived by me and three half-sisters.