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Overview: Paul James Michael OGrady MBE (born 14 June 1955) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul OGrady Show and, more recently, Paul OGrady Live, as well as his drag queen comedic alter ego, Lily Savage, as whom he performed in various television series including Blankety Blank (19971999) and Lily Live! (20002001). He also appeared in the comedy sitcom Eyes Down (20032004) and presented several travel documentaries.

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Table of Contents n Paul OGrady first came to fame in the guise of Lily - photo 1
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Paul O'Grady first came to fame in the guise of Lily Savage,and was nominated for a Perrier Award at the EdinburghFestival in 1991. Lily later became a regular on This Morning,took over the bed on The Big Breakfast and presentedBlankety Blank, but has now retired. Paul, of course, currentlypresents The New Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.

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At My Mother's Knee...
and other low joints

Paul O'Grady

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First published in Great Britain
in 2008 by Bantam Press
an imprint of Transworld Publishers

Copyright Paul O'Grady 2008

Paul O'Grady has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

This book is a work of non-fiction based on the life, experiences and recollections ofPaul O'Grady. In some limited cases names of people, places, dates, sequences or thedetail of events have been changed solely to protect the privacy of others. The authorhas stated to the publishers that, except in such minor respects not affecting thesubstantial accuracy of the work, the contents of this book are true.

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All the photographs were kindly supplied by the author, except for the three views ofBirkenhead which are reproduced by kind permission of BirkenheadReference Library.

Every effort has been made to obtain the necessary permissions with reference tocopyright material, both illustrative and quoted. We apologize for anyomissions in this respect and will be pleased to make the appropriateacknowledgements in any future edition.

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In memory of the Savage Sisters Mary, Anne andChristine without whom my world would've beena much duller place to grow up in.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Doug Young at Transworld for his patience,my sister Sheila for coping with the endless questions andphone calls at all hours of the day and night when I neededinformation about the clan, and everybody who put up withmy moaning as I sat writing this bloody thing when all I reallywanted to do was to go out and play.

CHAPTER ONE

AT HOME I'VE GOT A BOX CONTAINING WHAT I SUPPOSE YOUmight call the Family Archives. Family Archives soundsvery grand but it's actually just an ordinary cardboard boxcontaining an assortment of birth certificates, letters, olddiaries and sepia photographs the flotsam and jetsam of livespast. There's even a pair of yellowing false teeth wrapped up ina handkerchief. God knows who they belonged to. It couldhave been any one of my long-dead forebears.

When I was growing up in Birkenhead, nearly every adult Iknew had false teeth or at least had a couple of fake chopperson a dental plate either that or no teeth at all. My mother,christened Mary but known to everyone as Molly, had everytooth in her head extracted when false teeth became availableon the National Health. She came from a generation where apoor diet and only the most primitive dental hygiene had takenits toll on working-class teeth, therefore a set of gleamingwhite gnashers courtesy of the NHS was a highly desirableacquisition.

In the early sixties, when she was only forty-four, she underwentthis extreme dentistry. I remember her then as being quiteslim and pretty, though I can't recall what condition her teethwere in. She used to say that the reason she'd had them all takenout was because she had a mouthful of teeth 'like a row of bombed houses', which was a slight exaggeration. Like everyoneelse, she had all her teeth out because it was fashionable.

The sight of her lying in bed, moaning softly, a tea towelpressed to her swollen mouth and a bucket for blood on thefloor beside her, horrified me. That nightmare scene put me offgoing to the dentist for life. Nothing and nobody could persuademe to go, and I'm still the same today. OK, I might notdevelop rigor mortis, throw myself on the frontroom floorand hold my breath until my face turns a vivid scarlet at themere suggestion of a check-up any more, but if a tooth is playingup I'll stupidly ignore it until the final hour. When I'mdefeated by the pain and my cheek is as swollen as Popeye's I'llgive in and go for treatment.

My patient dad would try and gently coax me into taking thetrip to see Mr Aboud, our dentist, inevitably with no luck.Eventually my mother, exasperated by my carry-on, would getme there by means of devious trickery. On the pretext ofvisiting a clothes shop called Carson's that just happened to beclose to Aboud's House of Torture, she'd whip me into hissurgery with the speed and efficiency of the Childcatcherbefore I realized what was happening.

Mr Aboud, a dapper little man who wore neroli oil in his hairand spoke with an exotic accent if he had chosen actinginstead of dentistry he would have made the perfect HerculePoirot would place me firmly in his chair and press the foul-smellingrubber mask over my nose and mouth, telling me to'Close your eyes, child, and breathe deeeeply, deeply...' To myears he sounded just like Bela Lugosi in the Dracula films I'dseen on the telly. The gas would take effect and, slipping into acoma for what felt like hours but was actually only seconds, Iwould have wild, technicolour dreams and come to with a starton the leather bench in the waiting room, retching from theafter-effects of the gas into a bloodied bowl held by my mother.

Dentistry has a come a long way since the sixties. I've been through more dentists than I have socks over the years, but nowI've finally found a sympathetic marvel I'm a lot better. I stillwon't have an anaesthetic though; I don't like the after-effects.The dentist's creed back then was 'rip them out'. My aunty Chris,who kept all her extracted teeth wrapped in tissue in a jewellerybox in her bedroom and was always threatening to have thepoisonous-looking fangs made into a necklace, could neverunderstand 'why anyone would want to spend their lives rootin'around people's gobs' and dismissed all dentists as butchers.

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