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Born. Paul James O'Grady(1. June 1. 95. 5 (age 6. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. Residence. Aldington, Kent, England. Nationality. British. Occupation. Broadcaster, comedian, drag queen, actor, entrepreneur, author, television personality, producer. Years active. 19.

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Partner(s)Brendan Murphy (1. Children. 1Website. Official Radio 2 show page. Paul James O'Grady, MBE (born 1.

June 1. 95. 5) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio disc jockey. He achieved fame using his comedic drag queen character, "Lily Savage", and later became well known for presenting TV programmes as himself, such as The Paul O'Grady Show. Born to a working- class Irish migrant family in Birkenhead, he attended Blessed Edward Campion Secondary Modern School, in Claughton Village, Birkenhead, Cheshire (now Merseyside). O'Grady moved to London in the late- 1.

Camden Council. It was here in 1. Lily Savage upon traits found amongst female relatives. Touring Northern England as part of drag mime duo, the Playgirls, he eventually went solo as a stand- up comedian. Performing as Savage for eight years at a South London gay pub, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern (RVT), he gained a popular following among the city's gay community and used his character to speak out for LGBT rights.

After being nominated for a 1. Perrier Award, he attracted mainstream attention and made various television, radio, and theatrical appearances. As Savage, he presented morning chat show The Big Breakfast (1. Blankety Blank (1. Watch Don`T Go In The House Putlocker#.

Lily Live! (2. 00. Seeking to diversify his career away from Savage, O'Grady starred in BBC sitcom Eyes Down (2. ITV. In 2. 00. 4, he began presenting ITV's daytime chat show The Paul O'Grady Show, which proved a hit with audiences. After the network refused to transfer creative control of the series to O'Grady's production company, Olga TV, in 2. Channel 4, where the show was rebranded as The New Paul O'Grady Show and ran until 2. O'Grady subsequently presented a late night ITV show, Paul O'Grady Live (2. Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs (2.

Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans (2. BBC Radio 2's Paul O'Grady on the Wireless and publishing a four- volume autobiography. O'Grady has received a variety of awards, among them honorary degrees and an MBE in the 2. Birthday Honours for services to entertainment. Early life[edit]Childhood: 1.

O'Grady's father, Patrick "Paddy" Grady (died 1. Ballincurry, County Roscommon, Ireland, before moving to England in 1. Birkenhead, Cheshire (now Merseyside). His name was changed from "Grady" to "O'Grady" in a paperwork mistake when he joined the Royal Air Force; he kept this alternative name. Patrick married Mary "Molly" Savage (1. England, to Irish immigrants from County Louth. Patrick and Mary were devout Catholics and brought up their children in the Catholic faith.

O'Grady was their third child, born at 7: 3. June 1. 95. 5 at St.

Catherine's Hospital, Tranmere. His birth, over a decade after that of siblings Sheila (b. Brendan (b. 1. 94. O'Grady spent his early life at the family's rented home of 2.

Holly Grove, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, a house built in a former quarry during the early- 1. Watch Where Hope Grows Online. O'Grady remarked that the house was always damp and cold, suffering from "ominous cracks" which "would appear in the walls and ceilings overnight"."[W]hen I look back on my childhood I have no bad memories. Our family was loving and full of affection. I never knew what divorce was until I moved to London.

I was an indulged child and completely protected from anything bad."Paul O'Grady. Attending St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School, O'Grady excelled in all subjects, except maths. Hoping that he had a good future ahead of him, his parents budgeted to send him to a private school, the Catholic- run Redcourt, but his grades dropped. Failing the eleven plus exam, to his mother's dismay he was unable to enter a grammar school, instead attending the Blessed Edmund Campion R. C. Secondary Modern and the Corpus Christi High School, where O'Grady experienced his first homosexual encounter, enjoying a brief romance with another boy, although still assumed he was heterosexual.

A fan of the popular television series The Avengers and Batman, he was enrolled in the cub scouts by his mother, but he hated it, leaving after a month. An altar boy at a local Catholic church, he was dismissed after laughing during a funeral service. Then joining the Marine cadets, he later commented that he was following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, the cartoon Popeye.

Enjoying the cadets, at the advice of his captain he joined the Boys' Amateur Boxing Club, developing a lifelong love of the sport. Playing truant from school, he got into trouble with his parents, and subsequently with the police after burgling a house with three friends. O'Grady's first job was a paper round that he kept for a week, and through this and other jobs, he saved up to afford Mod clothes, for a time becoming a suedehead. Early adulthood: 1. Leaving school aged sixteen, O'Grady obtained a job in the civil service, working as a clerical assistant for the DHSS at their Liverpool office; he commuted in from his parents' home. Supplementing this income, he worked part- time at the bar of the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) club in Oxton. Called for a disciplinary hearing at the DHSS and accused of incompetent behaviour and tardiness, he resigned.

Obtaining a job at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Virginia Water, Surrey, aged seventeen, O'Grady moved there; appalled at the working conditions, the management accused him of stealing, which he denied. Promptly returning to Birkenhead, he worked at the RAFA club, increasingly socialising within the Liverpudlian gay scene, attending meetings of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and working at gay bar the Bear's Paw; [2. With his best friend Tony, O'Grady regularly travelled to London to socialise with Tony's friend, the classical music conductor John Pritchard, becoming very fond of him. Experimenting, O'Grady had casual sex with a friend and colleague, Diane Jansen.

She became pregnant, news which O'Grady discovered in the same week that both his parents suffered heart attacks; his mother made a recovery, but his father died. Following the birth of his daughter, Sharon Lee Jansen, on 1. May 1. 97. 4, O'Grady agreed to pay £3 per week towards her upkeep, but refused to marry Diane, recognising his homosexuality. Briefly working as an assistant clerk at Liverpool Magistrates' Court, O'Grady subsequently worked as a barman at Yates's Wine Lodge, supplementing the income with the occasional night at the Bear's Paw. Realising this wage was insufficient to support both himself and his daughter, he travelled to London, lodging in Westbourne Green, but found only poorly paid work as a barman. In London, he began associating with drag queens, particularly a couple who used the stage name of the Harlequeens.

Although making friends in the city, O'Grady was homesick and returned home. Employed as an accountant in a FMC Meats Merseyside abattoir, he then gained employment at the Children's Convalescent Home and School in West Kirby, a home for disabled and abused children; he worked there for three years.[3. Entering into a relationship with an older man named Norman, O'Grady moved into his house in Littlehampton; their relationship was strained, both cheating on one another, and it fell apart. Moving again to London, he rented a flat in Crouch End and began busking with a friend in Camden Town before obtaining a job as a physiotherapist's assistant at the Royal Northern Hospital. Made redundant by public sector cuts, O'Grady took up a job at a gay club called the Showplace, befriending Portuguese lesbian Theresa Fernandes; in May 1.