Paul O'Grady DEAD

I've always loved this Lily appearance on Parkinson - as the video description aptly puts it, she wipes the floor with him :D
 
I do appreciate, that when he went mainstream, he didn't stop talking about LGBTQ+ rights. I mean he didn't have to.

 
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Dominic Raab just called him Paul Grayson after Chris Bryant asked him out for a night at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and then proceeds to complain about woke comedy, citing O'Grady as an example otherwise.

 
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I've always loved this Lily appearance on Parkinson - as the video description aptly puts it, she wipes the floor with him :D
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“Don’t talk to me about that four-eyed fruit” :D
 
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Him being such good friends with Cilla though, it does make you wonder if she was as bad as people made out. I mean, nobody can be all bad can they?
 
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Him being such good friends with Cilla though, it does make you wonder if she was as bad as people made out. I mean, nobody can be all bad can they?
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This is powerful from Shon Faye for Dazed.

The celebration of his life that will be prompted by his death will force us in the queer community to confront unpleasant shifts in culture and increasing hesitancy many of us feel to be irreverent in a time of unhinged culture war and lucrative Amazon paid partnerships. Paul O’Grady was one of a cluster of truly anarchic gay and gender-freak working-class performers – David Hoyle and Pete Burns also spring to mind – who seemed to get on national television by stealth. Hoyle decided himself too sensitive for fame early on and Burns was too abrasive to be as widely beloved as O’Grady. Yet despite his appeal, it’s undoubtedly hard to imagine such opportunities being afforded today to anyone like Paul O’Grady, who called for George Osborne and David Cameron’s heads to be placed on spikes because of their austerity policies. The sadness of his death is the loss of a brilliant man with looming talent but its also about a longing for more bravery, ingenuity and humour from culture at a time when the right-wing is in ascendancy and the arts has become a sector bloated with far too many double-barrelled, bougie, boring cowards.
www.dazeddigital.com

Remembering Paul O’Grady, the anarchic gay performer who infiltrated UK TV

In the wake of his death, Shon Faye writes a tribute to the pillar of culture and beloved national treasure who never sacrificed his opinions, his personality, his gayness in return for his rise to becoming a household name
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I kind of think that he saw through her artifice and cuntery and she let him do so. Well either that or he necked so much champagne when he was with her that it rendered her bearable and she could have been ABSOLUTELY ANYONE

I mean we've ALL BEEN THERE
 
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He was so brilliantly quick.

My parents default to the old game shows on Challenge if they can't find anything else on telly. It is always a great relief when Lily's Blankety Blank is on.

For the Love of Dogs has become quite a Christmas STAPLE too.
 
He introduced me to the phrase “LOWER THAN A WORM’S TIT” which I still use to this day :disco:
 
I do think that if you're a drag queen and you can't deliver at that kind of speed, GO THE FUCK HOME. Nobody gives a fuck about how great you supposedly look on Instagram

#mizcracker #'variousothers
 
In a change to the advertised programme, BBC One will be broadcasting a classic episode of Blankety Blank this weekend in memory of presenter and comedian Paul O’Grady.

In this classic episode of the game show, with Paul O’Grady as Lily Savage, the guests are Rebecca Callard, Sophie Lawrence, Davina McCall, Sir Ian McKellen, Gray O’Brien and Dale Winton.

Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank will be broadcast on Saturday 1 April 2023 at 7pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
 
From this week's Popbitch:

A lot of the tributes to Paul O'Grady this week have made much of his trailblazing work as a drag artist, his dedication to the LGBT community, his love for animals and his intergenerational appeal – but we wouldn't be doing our job if we didn't point out that he was also one of the great lash hounds of his era. Possibly of all time.

To give you a top-tier testimonial: Paul was once introduced to Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones (through their mutual friend, Cilla Black). To our knowledge, there is no written record of the carnage that ensued but Paul put the band through their paces to such an extent that Mick Jagger has since said that the Rolling Stones have just three things they need to be kept away from...

"Drugs, booze and Lily Savage."
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I was watching some programmes re-aired this evening as a tribute to Paul O'Grady 🌟💭

On Channel 5 there was 'The Paul O'Grady Story' - from a few years ago, but with the recent tribute at the end 😢)
It did feature lots of the humorous scenes shared in this thread :D as Lily, and as Paul himself 💭

Earlier on this evening, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway was on at the same time (there was some I saw, like this moment, haha). Still, I preferred the more intriguing episode re-aired on BBC One, of Blankety Blank presented by Lily Savage :grin:
As well as Sir Ian McKellen and even Davina McCall, the late Dale Winton was also in the episode 💭📺

Gone too soon, but certainly not forgotten
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Anyone got a VHS rip of ‘Paying the rent’? The copy that made it to dvd had all the funniest bits taken out 🙄
 
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