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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 is set to be honoured by 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, Sharyn Mousley, has recalled the moment she first watched her father perform as Lily Savage.
Sharyn, 48, who lives in Liverpool, was born after Paul had a brief relationship in the 1970s with his then-work colleague, Diane Jansen, now 76.
In her first substantial TV interview for the ITV documentary, The Life and Death of Lily Savage, Sharyn discussed the moment she first saw her father donning women's clothes as Lily Savage, and admitted 'it was a lot to take in'.
While she wasn't allowed to see her father's alter ego in action as a youngster due to the drag character's racy humour, the moment she finally did has stayed with her.
'As I got older, I went to see Lily. It was a lot to take in because he was my dad at the end of the day and he had six inch heels on with a massive blonde wig,' she said.
Paul O'Grady's daughter, Sharyn Mousley (pictured), has recalled the moment she first saw her father as Lily Savage in a new ITV documentary titled The L
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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 spelfilm.
“He