Kay Smart | |
Occupation: | Circus performer |
Relatives: | Billy Smart, Jr. |
Kay Smart (died September 2016) was a British circus performer, of the Smart's circus dynasty.
Her mother died when Kay was three.[1] Smart worked as a trapeze artist as a child. She was married to Billy Smart, Jr.'s brother, Ronnie, making her the daughter-in-law of Billy Smart Sr.
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 26 May 1958.[2] She also wrote the introduction to David Jamieson's book, Billy Smart's circus: a pictorial history (Circus Friends Association, 2004).[3] Smart died in Jersey in September 2016.[4]