Romany Bain

Romany Bain (nee Evens, 22 March 1924 – 29 March 2015) was a British journalist and showbusiness interviewer.^[1] In the 1960s and 1970s, she worked as a features writer for She magazine and the Daily Mail.^[1]

Romany Bain
Born	Romany Evens (1924-03-22)22 March 1924 Carlisle, England
Died	29 March 2015(2015-03-29) (aged 91)
Occupation(s)	Journalist, showbusiness interviewer
Spouses	Richard Findlater ​ ​ (m. 1948; div. 1962)​ Tommy Watt ​ ​ (m. 1962; died 2006)​
Children	5, including Roly Bain and Ben Watt
Parent(s)	George Bramwell Evens Eunice Thomas

Bain was born in Carlisle, England, to Eunice (nee Thomas)^[2] and George Bramwell Evens. Evens was a Methodist minister who, under his pseudonym Romany, later worked for the BBC as one of the first wildlife programme presenters, with Eunice as his assistant and script editor.^[1]

From 1948 to 1962, Bain was married to the theatre critic and biographer Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain, who used the pen-name Richard Findlater. They had four children. One of their sons became an Anglican priest-clown known as Roly Bain or "Holy Roly".^[3] She subsequently married the jazz bandleader Tommy Watt, with whom she had a son, the musician Ben Watt.^[4]