First On Four: Julian Clary, 18/03/1998, C4 - part of the 15th (ish) Anniversary of Channel 4. Clary, Paul Merton, John Henderson, Mike Smith and Frank Thornton are interviewed Not my copyright, just sharing found ephemera.
I’ve been searching for this forever! I remember seeing it at the time. Julian was my idle and got the pleasure in meeting him when he picked me out of the front row collecting coats and bags. I wanted to be like Julian at college so much that I started to wear outrageous costumes and makeup until I nearly got beaten up! That’s my story. Thanks PP 😌
You should check out the others he mentioned. Frankie Howard, Larry Grayson & Kenneth Williams.Though they weren’t out, homosexuality was still illegal when they started their careers, they were all highly camp performers fronting prime time tv shows. A big difference between the US & UK is that in the UK there’s always been queer & highly camp performers in mainstream entertainment, going back to the 50s..
I always remember Julian clarey being known as the Joan Collins fan club and he had a dog called fanny a grey hound I think it was or a whippit and he would wear tall sky crappers on his shoulders and I swear to God it was probably him that put ideas in Gary Neville and his navvies heads to build them mahoosive humungus monstrous bluddy sky scrappers in Manchester city center 😠
One thing I read about him years ago is his dad's a policeman and his mam is a social worker no idea if it's true I read a lot of mad stuff and folks tell me mad stuff
The real puchline of the joke ("talk about a red box") was very clever, but unfortunately lost amid the furore. I still think that, if enough people had heard it, the reaction would not have been so OTT ....
