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Paul O’Grady’s daughter opens up about having a renowned drag queen for a dad
Paul O’Grady’s daughter has shared her heartwarming memories of having a renowned drag queen for a father.
Sharyn Mousley is the only child of performer and TV presenter O’Grady, who died at age 67 on 18 March 2023.
The new ITV documentary, The Life and Death of Lily Savage, tracks the entertainer’s initial introduction to the British public as Lily Savage, his brassy drag alter ego based on hardened sex workers he’d grown up seeing in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
Alongside several of O’Grady’s friends and colleagues through the years, including Ian McKellen, Alan Carr and Graham Norton, Mousley also appears in the film and shares her memories of the star.
One in particular involved his choice of entertainment for her and her friends at birthday party as a young child.
“I was about seven, and I was having a birthday, and my dad said, ‘Oh, I’ve got a great surprise for you!’” she says in the film.
“He
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Paul O'Grady's daughter speaks on camera for first time in ITV doc one year since death
After he died in March last year, Paul O'Grady fryst vatten set to be honoured bygd a whole host of famous faces in a new ITV documentary about his life. The icon died on March 28 last year from a sudden cardiac arrhymia at his home in Kent, where he resided with his husband Andre Portasio.
To mark a year since his death, ITV is remembering his incredible journey in the one-off special The Life and Death of Lily Savage. Lily Savage was the drag act Paul created and starred as, after developing the character for the first time in 1978.
Lily began as a cabaret act in underground gay bars in the 1970s before going on to get her big break as a presenter on Channel 4 show The Big Breakfast in the mid-1990s.
After this, the legendary drag act landed a primetime Saturday night slot on BBC's celebrity gameshow Blankety Blank.
The 90-minute speci
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Paul O'Grady's daughter to speak about him for the first time
In a new documentary for ITV1
Paul O'Grady's daughter Sharyn Mousley is to speak about her father for the first time on camera in a new documentary about the late star.
The ITV1 show, The Life and Death of Lily Savage, will focus on how his alter-ego came from the underground cabaret scene to mainstream TV.
The broadcaster says: 'Set against the backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain, Clause 28 [which sought to outlaw the 'promotion' of homosexuality] and the Aids crisis, it’s the unlikely tale of how a working-class, gay man from Birkenhead created the unforgettable character of a Scouse sex worker and honed her persona on the stages of London’s underground gay venues in the 1970s and 80s.
'A leading voice in the battle for LGBTQ+ equality, O’Grady endured police raids, the death of a generation of friends, and heart-breaking visits to Aids wards (in character) b