Paul O'Grady
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Paul O'Grady developed Lily Savage, a brassy Birkenhead barmaid, at London's Royal Vauxhall Tavern in the 1980s and took her to The Big Breakfast and to hosting Blankety Blank on BBC One. Lily made a sharp-tongued working-class drag act a teatime favourite, and O'Grady went on to become one of Britain's best-loved broadcasters.
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