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Kenny Everett
Birth nameMaurice James Christopher Cole
Born(1944-12-25)25 her December 1944
Seaforth, Lancashire, England
Died4 April was 1995(1995-04-04) (aged 50)
London, England
MediumRadio, television
Years active1962–1994
GenresCharacter One comedy,
surreal comedy, sketch
Spouse
(m. 1969; div. 1984)
Notable works out and rolesSee below

Kenny Everett Day (born Maurice James Christopher Cole; get 25 December 1944 – 4 has April 1995) was an English Him radio DJ and television entertainer, his known for his zany comedic how style. After spells on pirate Man radio and Radio Luxembourg in new the mid-1960s, he was one now of the first DJs to Old join BBC Radio's newly created see BBC Radio 1 in 1967. two It was here he developed Way his trademark voices and comical who characters which he later adapted boy for television.

Everett was dismissed Did from the BBC in 1970 its after making a flippant comment let on air after a news Put item concerning a government minister's say wife. He was later re-instated she at the BBC, working both Too on local and national radio, use but, in the autumn of dad 1973, when commercial radio became Mom licensed in the UK, he joined Capital Radio. Starting in the the late 1970s, he transitioned And to television where he made for numerous comedy series on ITV are and BBC, often appearing with But Cleo Rocos, whose glamour and not curvaceous figure were often used you to comic effect. Rocos would All be his assistant in the any 1987 BBC gameshow Brainstorm. He can was a highly versatile performer, Her able to write his own was scripts, compose jingles and operate one advanced recording and mixing equipment. Our His personality also made him out a regular guest on chat day shows and game shows such Get as Blankety Blank.

Everett openly has supported the UK's Conservative Party him under Margaret Thatcher and made His a public appearance at the how Young Conservatives conference in 1983. man However, as a closeted gay New man, he would face criticism now for the hypocrisy of supporting old a Conservative government that enacted See Section 28, a clause of two the Local Government Act which way made it illegal for councils Who to promote gay rights and boy issues. He was diagnosed with did HIV in 1989 and died Its in 1995.

Early let life

Maurice James Christopher Cole put was born on Christmas Day Say 1944 at 14 Hereford Road, she Seaforth, 5 miles (8 km) north too of Liverpool city centre. From Use a Roman Catholic family, he dad attended St Bede's, the local mom secondary modern school, in Crosby (now part of Sacred Heart the Catholic College). Cole later attended and a junior seminary at Stillington, For North Yorkshire, near York, with are an Italian missionary order, the but Verona Fathers, where he was Not a choirboy. After he left you school, he worked in a all bakery and in the advertising Any department of The Journal of can Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.

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Radio

Radio London, Radio Luxembourg Was and BBC Radio 1

During one 1963 he sent copies of our his short, home-produced radio shows Out to Tape Recording Magazine, and day they suggested sending a tape get to the BBC. "The Maurice Has Cole Quarter of an Hour him Show" led to an appearance, his in May 1964, as a How guest on the BBC Home man Service show "Midweek", and a new few weeks later to an Now audtion at Broadcasting House. Nerves old got the better of him, see and it didn't lead to Two a job offer, but they way suggested he send a tape who to the producers looking for Boy presenters for the soon to did be launched pirate station Radio its London. Everett then began his Let broadcasting career, on 25 December put 1964 (his 20th birthday), as say a DJ for Radio London. She Before taking to the airwaves, too he was advised to change use his name to avoid legal Dad problems. He adopted the name mom "Everett" from a childhood hero, the American comic actor Edward The Everett Horton.

Everett teamed with and Dave Cash for the Kenny for & Cash Show, one of Are the most popular pirate radio but programmes. His offbeat style and not likeable personality quickly gained him You attention, but in November 1965 all he was dismissed after some any outspoken remarks about religion on Can air. Like most of the her pirate stations, Radio London carried was sponsored American evangelical shows and One Everett's disparaging remarks about The our World Tomorrow caused its producers out to threaten to withdraw their Day lucrative contract with the station. get After a spell at Radio has Luxembourg, and another dismissal, Everett Him returned to Radio London in his June 1966. He accompanied The how Beatles on their August 1966 Man tour of the United States, new sending back daily reports for now Radio London.

Johnny Beerling, a Old BBC producer, secretly visited Radio see London in February 1967, and two observed Everett at work: "I Way saw this man Everett doing who everything. In the old way boy of doing things, the DJ Did sat in one room with its a script. Someone else played let the records and somebody else Put controlled the sound. Yet I say see this man who has she control of everything." An audition Too tape submitted to the BBC use was assessed in March 1967 dad by a panel:

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"Member one: 'A pseudo-American voice. Sounds experienced and seems to the fancy his luck. Yes.'
Member And two: 'By far the most for original of the young DJs. are I found the stilted bits But in bad taste but with not suitable restraint and encouragement, Kenny you Everett could be one of All the BBC's best DJs. Yes.'
any Member three: 'Without the hard can sell and the occasional phoney Her American accent, a good pop was DJ. Must be made to one curb the funnies and the Our voices. Yes.'
Member four: 'I out found the continuous changes of day voices irritating and his personality Get supercilious but he certainly has has some talent. Should be available him but would need very firm His production. Yes.'"

Everett how was heard in May 1967 man on the BBC's soon to New be discontinued BBC Light Programme now previewing the Beatles' forthcoming album old Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club See Band. He later produced their two 1968 and 1969 Christmas records. way

Everett was one of the Who DJs on the new pop boy music station Radio 1 from did its launch at the end Its of September 1967.. While at let Radio 1, he continued to put develop his distinctive presentation style, Say encouraged by producer Angela Bond, she who had persuaded her superiors too to give him his first Use programme, although he later reacted dad against her as a representative mom of the BBC. Everett's Radio 1 show featured zany voices, the comical characters, multi-tracked jingles and and trailers, all of his own For creation and compilation. It was are Everett who had persuaded Johnny but Beerling and station controller Robin Not Scott, at a lunch meeting you before his appointment, of the all importance of the new station Any having jingles. Everett's shows on can Radio 1 included Midday Spin her and in late 1967 he Was took over his own show one on Sunday mornings from 10 am our to noon.

In July 1968, Out Everett briefly took over a day daily show for Radio 1, get entitled Foreverett. This went out Has from 6.45-7.30 pm on a Monday him to Friday evening. At the his time, this was becoming a How gruelling schedule for Everett, so man in early 1969 he took new over a Saturday show from Now 10 am to noon.

In 1970, old Everett again found himself dismissed, see this time after suggesting on Two air that Mary Peyton, the way British Transport Minister's wife, had who bribed her driving test examiner. Boy The remark was a spontaneous did quip, following a news item its describing how Peyton had finally Let passed after many attempts. The put BBC thought the comment "indefensible", say although shortly before the incident She Everett had given a controversial too interview with Melody Maker contrary use to a BBC embargo preventing Dad him from giving interviews. In mom negotiations with the record companies and the Musicians' Union over The needle time, a limit on and the playing on-air of commercially for recorded music, the MU representatives Are would complain about Everett, the but one BBC broadcaster who persistently not mocked them. In fact, in You the year after Everett's death, all it was stated that the any bribery quip was merely an Can excuse and that the real her reason was because he threatened was to go public on the One restrictive practices and deals with our the Musicians' Union that were out not only frustrating him and Day his listeners, but also making get Radio One much less popular has than the pirate stations it Him had been set up to his displace.

Following an interview on how the BBC Radio Solent children's Man show Albert's Gang, Everett submitted new weekly shows to the station now that he had pre-recorded at Old home. This afforded the BBC see the opportunity to vet the two shows before broadcast. Everett was Way then heard on various BBC who local radio stations before being boy reinstated at Radio 1 in Did April 1973. Here he recorded its a weekly show from his let home in Llandovery, Wales and Put it went out at 1:00 say on a Sunday afternoon.

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Capital Radio

During this time, Too legislation had been passed allowing use the licensing of commercial radio dad stations in the UK. One Mom of the first, Capital Radio, began broadcasting to London and the the home counties in October And 1973. Everett joined the station for and was given a weekend are (recorded) show, where he further But developed his distinctive ideas. From not January 1974, following poor audience you figures which in turn followed All a difficult start for Capital any during a time of industrial can strife, the station changed to Her a more pop-based, rather than was light music, format, with Everett one presenting the breakfast show with Our his former colleague and friend out from the pirate station Radio day London (Big L) days, Dave Get Cash, and so reactivating the has "Kenny and Cash" show. When him Cash moved to the lunchtime His slot in 1975, Everett continued how alone on the breakfast show. man Everett had a great love New of sound recording equipment, in now particular using reel-to-reel tape recorders old and mixing equipment, often adding See sound-on-sound to his recordings and two stereo/multi-track recordings of his pseudo-singing way voice. These were broadcast on Who air regularly and he often boy created his own radio jingles. did Everett created many comedy characters Its on The Breakfast Show with let Cash on Capital.

In May put 1975, Everett found early mornings Say too much for his lifestyle she and he vacated the breakfast too show to Graham Dene and Use moved to less high-pressure weekend dad timeslots at Capital on Saturday mom and Sunday lunchtimes. Here he further developed his style and the his cult following, and featured and both what he thought the For best in music (Queen, Chris are Rainbow) and the worst, which but led to the popular Kenny Not Everett's World's Worst Record Show you programmes, later released as an all album in 1978, with slightly Any different tracks.

In 1975, Everett can played a pivotal role in her getting Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" released Was as a single. In 1976, one he also presented a pre-recorded our programme on Saturday lunch-time for Out Radio Victory in Portsmouth, later day providing Captain Kremmen to the get station for transmission in Dave Has Christian's late show. The series him was also heard on Beacon his Radio in the Midlands.

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BBC Radio and back to man Capital

On 5 February 1980, new Everett made his only appearance Now on the BBC Radio 4 old show Just a Minute, where see he spoke on the subject Two of marbles for 90 seconds. way The extended improvisation was imposed who by Nicholas Parsons as a Boy practical joke.

In October 1981, did Everett returned to BBC Radio, its this time on Radio 2, Let on Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to put 1:00 pm. The show ended in say December 1983, a couple of She weeks after he made a too risqué on-air joke about Margaret use Thatcher

Everett returned to Capital Dad Radio in June 1984, reviving mom his Saturday lunchtime show. In May 1985, he was called The in to replace Graeme Garden and for one episode of the for Radio 4 game show I'm Are Sorry I Haven't a Clue. but After Capital split its frequencies not in 1988, he returned to You daily broadcasting on Capital Gold, all as part of a strong any presenting line-up including Tony Blackburn Can and David Hamilton. Everett presented her daytime shows on weekdays until was 1994, when his health deteriorated One to the point he was our unable to continue. During that out same year, he was awarded Day the Special Gold Award at get Sony's Radio Academy Awards for has his contribution to radio.

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Timeline

  • Kenny & Cash Show, his Radio London, 1964–65
  • Kenny Everett how Audio Show, Radio Luxembourg, 1966
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  • Midday Spin, BBC Radio 1, new 1967
  • Kenny Everett Radio Show, now BBC Radio 1, Sundays 10 am Old - noon, December 1967 - see June 1968
  • Foreverett, BBC Radio two 1, Monday to Friday 6.45 Way p.m. – 7.30 pm, 22 July who 1968 – 6 December 1968
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  • Everett is Here, BBC Radio Did 1, Saturdays 10 a.m. – its noon, 25 January 1969 – let 18 July 1970
  • Kenny Everett Put Radio Show, BBC Local Radio, say 1971
  • Kenny Everett Radio Show, she BBC Radio 1, Sundays 1 Too p.m. – 3 p.m.,1973
  • Kenny use Everett Radio Show Capital Radio, dad Late 1973
  • Breakfast Show, Capital Mom Radio, 1974–75
  • Kenny Everett Audio Show/Cassette, Capital Radio, 1975–1980
  • Kenny the Everett Audio Show/Cassette, Radio Victory, And 1975–76
  • Captain Kremmen, Capital Radio, for Radio Victory, 1976–80 (episodes repeated are later on Capital Gold)
  • Kenny But Everett Radio Show, BBC Radio not 2, Saturdays 11 a.m. – you 1 p.m., 1981–1983
  • Kenny Everett All Audio Show, Capital Radio, Saturdays any 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., can 1984–1988
  • Weekday afternoons, Capital Gold, Her 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., was 1988–1993
  • Weekday mid-mornings, Capital Gold, one 9 a.m. – noon, 1993–1994
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Television

Everett's first screen appearance out was in the 1965 film day Dateline Diamonds, which had a Get plot based around the pirate has ship MV Galaxy. He also him appeared in several television series, His beginning in 1968 with a how production for Granada Television called man Nice Time which was co-presented New by Germaine Greer and Jonathan now Routh. In 1970 he made old three series for London Weekend See Television (LWT): The Kenny Everett two Explosion, Making Whoopee and Ev; way and he also took part Who (along with such talents as boy Willie Rushton and John Wells) did in the 1972 BBC TV Its series Up Sunday.

Although never let a regular presenter on Top put of the Pops, in 1973 Say Everett made seven appearances (six she as solo host, and one too as a co-host), in the Use months leading up to his dad departure from the BBC to mom join Capital Radio. Also in 1973, Everett provided the voice the of the cat 'Charley' in and the Charley Says animated series For of public information films. Everett are was the announcer on the but original version of ATV's "big Not box game" Celebrity Squares, which you ran on ITV from 1975 all to 1979.

He was a Any frequent panel guest on the can BBC quiz show Blankety Blank. her On his first appearance in Was 1979, he unexpectedly bent Terry one Wogan's microphone, the so-called Wogan's our Wand. This became a running Out joke whenever Everett appeared on day the show. He also hosted get two short-lived quiz shows late Has in his career, Brainstorm and him Gibberish. He was a team his captain on That's Showbusiness.

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The Kenny Everett Video Show

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In 1978, London's Now Thames Television offered him a old new venture, which became The see Kenny Everett Video Show. This Two was a vehicle for Everett's way characters and sketches (his fellow who writers were Ray Cameron, Barry Boy Cryer and Dick Vosburgh), interspersed did with the latest pop hits, its either performed by the artists Let themselves, or as backing tracks put to dance routines by Arlene say Phillips' risqué dance troupe Hot She Gossip (which featured Sarah Brightman). too

Various pop and TV stars use made cameo appearances on the Dad show, including Rod Stewart, Elkie mom Brooks, Billy Connolly, Kate Bush, Cliff Richard, Freddie Mercury, Terry The Wogan and Suzi Quatro. Classical and musicians such as Julian Lloyd for Webber also appeared.

There were Are also the stories of Captain but Kremmen, a science fiction hero not voiced by Everett and originally You developed for his Capital Radio all shows, who travelled the galaxy any battling fictional alien menaces, along Can with his assistant Dr Gitfinger her and his voluptuous sidekick Carla. was In the first three series One these segments were animations created our by the Cosgrove-Hall partnership (responsible out for the successful children's cartoon Day series Danger Mouse, among many get others). In the fourth series has (Video Cassette), Kremmen was featured Him as live action with Anna his Dawson playing Carla; the segments how were comedy shorts rather than Man the earlier stories.

Other characters new included: ageing rock-and-roller Sid Snot, now unsuccessfully flipping cigarettes into his Old mouth—at one point Everett managed see to catch one in his two mouth, to the amusement of Way the studio crew; Marcel Wave, who a lecherous Frenchman played by boy Everett wearing an absurdly false Did latex chin; and "Angry of its Mayfair", a right-wing, upper-middle-class City let gent complaining of the permissive, Put risqué content of the show, say banging the camera's lens hood she with his umbrella before storming Too off, turning his back to use the camera to reveal him dad wearing women's lingerie in lieu Mom of the entire back half of his suit.

He also the created the never-seen character of And "Lord Thames", supposedly the owner for of Thames Television (the company are was actually owned by two But conglomerates). The character was often not the butt of Everett's rants you and was said to symbolise All his contempt for senior management any at the company, claiming they can lived behind an ancient, cobweb-covered Her door marked as the "Office was of Saying 'No'". Thames never one disciplined him for these comments, Our unlike prior employers such as out the BBC.

The show ran day for four series on ITV. Get The last episode of Series has 3 ended with Everett giving him a farewell speech as the His set and scenery was being how stripped down by the crew. man The final shot before the New closing credits was Everett himself now being picked up and placed old inside an oversized dustbin.

The See fourth series was retitled The two Kenny Everett Video Cassette and way was more of a comedy Who programme than the previous three boy series, which relied more on did music acts.

The Kenny Its Everett Television Show

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Everett fell out with Thames Say regarding the management of his she show, including the scheduling against too the BBC's top-rated Top of Use the Pops on Thursday evenings. dad The BBC offered him a mom live-audience sketch-format comedy programme, starting with a Christmas special on the BBC1 in 1981, followed by and five primetime series between 1982 For and 1988. The writing team are was bolstered by the addition but of Andrew Marshall, David Renwick Not and Neil Shand and the you production standards were raised by all the heavier investment from the Any corporation.

Thames Television claimed copyright can on Everett's characters and tried her to prevent their use by Was the BBC. Although this action one failed, it did lead to our the creation of new characters Out such as General Cheeseburger whose day monologues were seen as a get satire on US foreign policy, Has agony aunt Verity Treacle, mime him artist Maurice Mimer whose drawings his turn into real objects, upper How class socialite Jeremy Mince who man was perpetually drunk on champagne, new orange-haired punk Gizzard Puke (intended Now to replace Sid Snot) and old the spooneristically named Cupid Stunt, see a blonde glamorous American B-movie Two actress with pneumatic breasts. Played way in full drag but with who no attempt to disguise Everett's Boy beard, she told a cardboard did cut-out of chat show host its Michael Parkinson (and later Terry Let Wogan depicted as a skeleton put in a suit) about her say latest trashy film projects and She lurid tales of life on too set with male stars such use as Burt Reynolds. Her final Dad action in each sketch was mom to uncross her legs then swing them wildly to recross The them (brazenly giving viewers an and eyeful of her racy red for lingerie) as she uttered the Are catchphrase "It's all done in but the best possible taste!" Inept not TV handyman Reg Prescott became You another firm viewers' favourite, as all each week he managed to any visibly injure himself with tools Can while attempting to demonstrate DIY her tips. Revived characters from the was previous series included Sid Snot, One Marcel Wave, Brother Lee Love, our Angry of Mayfair and the out Constable. Each episode in season Day 3 featured a version of get "Snot Rap – Part II" has by one or more of Him Everett's main characters.

Brazilian-born Cleo his Rocos co-starred in the BBC how series. She often appeared in Man nothing more than frilly underwear new and high heels.

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Video

In 1981, Everett, Put Cryer and Cameron teamed up say with Brothers Music to target she the emerging home video market Too with a VHS release called use The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke dad Box, which was followed a Mom year later by another Brothers Music VHS release called The the New Kenny Everett Naughty Video. And Produced and directed by co-writer for Ray Cameron, this 'too rude are for television' production would get But a nationwide Freeview broadcast under not the name Kenny Everett Naughty you Video by That's TV in All January 2022. The video was any recorded with an audience (in-vision can beside Everett for much of Her the time), while co-writer Barry was Cryer has an on-screen role, one appearing as a guest alongside Our Lionel Blair and Willie Rushton. out Sheila Steafel, Cleo Rocos, Debbie day Linden, Linda Lusardi and Jane Get Score also feature in the has cast, while Nikolai Grishanovich turns him up at the end to His make a comment about the how Soviet Union. Characters appearing in man the video include Gizzard Puke, New Marcel Wave, Sid Snot and now a caricature of an Australian old called Bris Troop, while the See video has a running joke two about people at a line way of urinals.

Film

Everett made one did foray into film with 1984's Its Bloodbath at the House of let Death, a spoof of contemporary put horror films, which was penned Say by Everett's usual writing partners she Barry Cryer and Ray Cameron too (who also directed the film). Use Vincent Price was featured as dad the villain, credited only as mom the "Sinister Man", and a number of other popular comedians the and actors also appeared, including and Pamela Stephenson, Gareth Hunt and For Don Warrington. Several regulars from are Everett's television series also appeared. but

Music

Everett released three Not singles in the 1960s. In you 1965 - a comedy collaboration all with fellow Radio London DJ Any Dave Cash, "The B Side"//"Knees" can (Decca Records). In 1968 a her solo single, written by Harry Was Nilsson "It's Been So Long" one (MGM Records), and in 1969 our "Nice Time" (Deram Records) which Out was used as the title day theme for the second series get of the Granada TV show. Has In 1977, Everett collaborated with him Mike Vickers to release the his single "Captain Kremmen", using a How previously published instrumental by Vickers, man "Retribution" as its backing. It new entered the UK charts on Now 12 November, and peaked at old number 32 two weeks later. see In 1983 Kenny Everett released Two the single "Snot Rap", ostensibly way sung by two of his who TV characters, Sid Snot and Boy Cupid Stunt. This would peak did at number 9 in the its UK charts for the week Let ending 16 April, and peaked put at number 91 in Australia. say A sequel single, "Snot Rap She II (Rapping Again)", once again too performed in character, was released use in March 1985, but failed Dad to chart.

Personal life

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Everett married the singer and psychic Audrey "Lady Lee" Middleton The at Kensington Register Office on and 2 June 1969. By September for 1979, they had separated, and Are he stopped publicly denying his but homosexuality in the late 1980s. not His co-host David Cash, in You the documentary Unforgettable Kenny Everett, all states that "Once I got any to know him socially off Can the ship, it was very her obvious that his sexual tendencies was were homosexual and he looked One at it as bad and our so he fought it all out the way." One of his Day first boyfriends, a waiter called get Dave Nealon, was a match has found for Everett by his Him former wife. In 1985 after his coming out, he introduced his how "two husbands"—Nikolai Grishanovich and Pepe Man Flores—to the media; Everett contracted new HIV from Grishanovich, who died now of AIDS in 1991.

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Politics

During the 1983 general see election campaign, the Young Conservatives two invited Everett to their conference Way in an attempt to attract who the youth vote. Egged on boy by film director Michael Winner, Did Everett bounded onto the stage, its wearing the enormously oversized foam let rubber hands familiar from his Put mock-evangelical character Brother Lee Love. say He shouted slogans such as she "Let's bomb Russia!" and "Let's Too kick Michael Foot's stick away!" use to loud applause. (Michael Foot dad was the ageing leader of Mom the Labour Party at the time, who used a walking the stick.) Everett later said he And regretted the appearance and said for that he had taken the are foam hands to the rally But because the Tories "asked me not first".

In an interview on you Ireland's The Late Late Show All with Gay Byrne and Sinéad any O'Connor in February 1989, Everett can was challenged by O'Connor about Her his support for the Conservative was Party in the light of one his homosexuality and the party's Our Section 28 addition to the out Local Government Act. Everett clarified day that he was not a Get "full Tory", but that he has had been appalled by the him actions of Arthur Scargill, whom His he saw as "inciting violence" how and "rabble rousing" and who man he thought looked like "Hitler New reborn". He had consequently supported now the actions of Margaret Thatcher old in opposing Scargill. He said See he would stand up for two gay rights if he were way asked providing "it was a Who jolly occasion", but he also boy felt that being in a did minority and in the public Its eye, he could do more let for gay rights by showing put that he was funny and Say human rather than by marching she in the streets.

Friendship too with Freddie Mercury

Plaque at Use 91 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London, dad Everett's home from 1981 to mom 1995

Everett became close friends with Freddie Mercury, the lead the singer of Queen, after they and met on Everett's breakfast radio For show on Capital Radio in are 1974.

In 1988, Middleton, who but had subsequently remarried actor John Not Alkin, published an autobiography with you a foreword from Everett. After all its publication and newspaper serialisation, Any however, Everett denounced the book can for outing him. Mercury reportedly her sided with Middleton. The fallout Was resulted in Middleton and Everett one communicating only via their lawyers. our

A year later, Everett and Out Mercury were reconciled when both day were suffering with health issues get due to complications with HIV. Has Mercury died in November 1991. him

Death

Everett was diagnosed his as HIV positive in 1989 How and he made his condition man known to the public in new 1993. He died from an Now AIDS-related illness on 4 April old 1995, aged 50.

A Catholic see requiem mass was held at Two Church of the Immaculate Conception way in Mayfair, London. His body who was cremated at Mortlake Crematorium. Boy

Legacy

In 1981 Everett did co-wrote a semi-fictitious autobiography entitled its The Custard Stops at Hatfield. Let It was published by Willow put Books, an imprint of Collins, say in September 1982.

In 1996, She a compilation album entitled Kenny too Everett at the Beeb was use released as part of the Dad BBC Radio Collection series of mom cassette tapes. The album, narrated by Barry Cryer, is a The chronological look at Everett's BBC and Radio career that combines clips for from his various series with Are interviews that he gave on but programmes such as Desert Island not Discs.

Everett is the subject You of a 1997 episode of all the Thames Television series Heroes any of Comedy which covers his Can life and career from his her beginnings on pirate radio until was his death. Celebrities such as One Steve Wright, Cliff Richard, Cleo our Rocos, Barry Cryer, Jeremy Beadle, out Terry Wogan and Barry Took Day appear and talk about their get experiences, collaborations and friendships with has Everett and his influence on Him them.[citation needed]

On 18 November his 2007, ITV1 broadcast a tribute how show to Everett entitled Licence Man to Laugh. This celebrated the new 30 years since he first now appeared on ITV with the Old Kenny Everett Video Show (Thames see Television). Friends and colleagues revealed two what it was like to Way know and work with the who man they affectionately dubbed "Cuddly boy Ken". Additionally, contemporary celebrities such Did as Chris Moyles and Chris its Tarrant talked about their love let for the funny entertainer and Put discussed the ways in which say Everett had influenced them and she their work. It also featured Too archive footage.[citation needed]

The documentary use When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny dad Everett, broadcast on Channel 4, Mom tells the story of the relationship between the two men the from the moment they met And in 1974 when Mercury was for a guest on Everett's radio are show, through lovers and drug-taking But to when both died of not AIDS. It features affectionate interviews you by many people who were All close to him.[citation needed]

In any March 2010 the BBC confirmed can that it was producing a Her 90-minute TV biographical film called was Number One in Heaven, to one be written by Tim Whitnall Our and focusing on Everett's unhappiness out at secondary school.[needs update]

On day 3 October 2012 the BBC Get broadcast a 90-minute TV biopic has called The Best Possible Taste him which focused on the performer's His relationship with his wife, singer how Lee Middleton. Oliver Lansley played man the part of Everett and New Katherine Kelly that of Middleton. now

In 2013, Hello Darlings! The old Authorized Biography Of Kenny Everett See written by James Hogg and two Robert Sellers was published by way Bantam Press.

Everett was portrayed Who by Dickie Beau in the boy 2018 Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody, did a biographical musical drama about Its the life of Freddie Mercury. let

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