O’Grady’s other on-air appearances included as host of ITV celebrity game show, Paul O’Grady’s Saturday Night Line Up. Throughout his career O’Grady picked up various accolades including a TV Bafta, a British Comedy Award, and a National Television Award for The Paul O’Grady Show. He took on chat show The Lily Savage Show for the BBC for a short run in 1997 and later that year had success as the host of a revived version of gameshow Blankety Blank, which ran until 2002. PUBLISHER : ARROW BOOKS * YEAR : 1963 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 245 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER IS HEAVILY RUBBED AND CREASED WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS. He and his partner Andre Portasio lived in a farmhouse in Kent, alongside a menagerie of animals including four dogs, goats, sheep, chickens and barn owls.

He also spoke about his health at the time, having had two heart attacks, saying: “The worst thing you can do is to sit and fret.

snw0506 Three large 10"x8" movie stills undated modern origin reprints but would seem official bought as part of a large press collection but no press notes on reverses (plain backs) all outstanding condition showing some of the greatest moments from this Hammer epic movie in these giant movie photos. O’Grady’s life-long love of animals also saw him branch out into presenting different styles of programming, among them Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans, which aired between 2014 and 2016 and saw him visit Africa to meet baby animals. Paul, of course, went on to further success presenting his chat shows on Channel 4 and ITV, For the Love of Dogs and Animal Orphans on ITV, and his weekly show on BBC Radio 2, inter alia. O’Grady has also authored several books, including an autobiographical series detailing his childhood, the creation of Savage, and his years in the spotlight. Lily later became a regular on This Morning, took over the bed on The Big Breakfast and presented Blankety Blank.

The comedian made a name for himself speaking out about LGBT issues and picked up a mainstream following after being nominated for a Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 1991.Emm006 This is a superb opportunity to secure this vintage 6" x 4" hand signed photo of Patrick Mower famous for The Devil Rides Out with this personal souvenir of him playing on the golf course many years ago when signed, which he signature rests perfectly accompanying the portrait in outstanding condition. O’Grady’s career as Savage took off with TV and radio appearances in character and he was eventually asked to take over from Paula Yates as The Big Breakfast presenter as Savage from 1995 to 1996. His four volumes of autobiography - At My Mother's Knee, The Devil Rides Out, Still Standing and Open the Cage, Murphy - are all Sunday Times bestsellers.

On stage, he appeared in various stage productions including versions of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Annie, and starred in the BBC bingo hall sitcom Eyes Down from 2003 to 2004. Grief doesn’t happen immediately, it hits you after a while, because you’ve got all the funeral and the fuss, then when that dies down you find yourself on your own, with time to contemplate what’s happened,” he said. O’Grady began his career by performing as Savage in the 1970s whilst working as a peripatetic care officer for Camden Council in north London. The company gained creative control for stints at Channel 4 running from 2006 to 2009, and 2013 to 2015.Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.