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Julian Clary

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May 2024

  • Barb Jungr and Julian Clary, pictured at The Café Carlyle in 2009

    Celebrity how we met
    How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met: ‘We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills’

  • ‘Rodrigo, a hot, heterosexual carer, films a coquettish David in the bath’ …  Chambers in Much Ado About Dying.

    ‘His body was a tool telling truths’: Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor’s extraordinary exit

November 2023

  • Mary Berry and Anton Du Beke.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a comforting dose of Mary Berry and Anton Du Beke

    Mary Berry teaches celebrities a thing or two about cooking in this new series. Plus: the finale of Brassic. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2022

  • Gary Wilmot, Paul Zerdin (and Sam), Dawn French and Natalie McQueen - Jack and The Beanstalk - The London Palladium - Photo Credit Paul Coltas

    Jack and the Beanstalk review – no expense spared for giant all-star entertainment

    Dawn French, Julian Clary and the like join an animatronic giant with a vast beanstalk in an innuendo-heavy, story-light show

June 2022

  • Head shot of Julian Clary with pink background

    The Q&A
    Julian Clary: ‘Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived’

    The actor, comedian and writer on flippant remarks, forgetfulness and feral children

November 2021

  • Sam Pay (Mr McNumpty) in The Bolds, written and adapted for the stage by Julian Clary @ Unicorn Theatre. Directed by Lee Lyford (Opening 24-11-2021) ©Tristram Kenton 11-21 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Bolds review – Julian Clary’s hyena family will have you in cackles

    Clary’s joke-filled books make for a vibrant stage show, replete with slapstick laughs, daft songs and a wholesome message

September 2021

  • Matthew Kelly and Julian Clary in The Dresser.

    The Dresser review – Matthew Kelly and Julian Clary face the final curtain

    Kelly is the raging old stager and Clary his pomposity-puncturing assistant in Ronald Harwood’s perennial favourite

July 2021

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    Sunday with Julian Clary: ‘A G&T at noon in memory of my grandfather’

    The television presenter tells Samantha Rea about walking the dogs in the park, a warm Co-op croissant and watching some nonsense on Netflix

December 2019

  • Julian Clary as The Ringmaster and Paul O’Grady as Baron Von Savage in Goldilocks and The Three Bears at The London Palladium.

    Why Julian Clary loves mincing … but says bah humbug to mince pies

  • Searching through the smut for the story … Julian Clary (The Ringmaster) and Paul O’Grady (Baron von Savage) in Goldilocks and the Three Bear.

    Goldilocks and the Three Bears review – barrage of innuendo from Clary and co

September 2019

  • ‘I always felt that if you’d outraged the Daily Mail then it was job done, really …’

    The G2 interview
    Julian Clary: ‘I have the right to be a camp, effeminate homosexual’

    The comedian has spent more than 30 years outraging and educating straight audiences. He recalls his early fame, the infamous Norman Lamont gag – and his brief stab at heterosexuality

May 2019

  • Julian Clary.

    Julian Clary review – a past master of the scornful ad-lib

    There may be a weary air to some of the obligatory scripted smut, but Clary’s affectionate put-downs remain acutely calibrated

January 2019

  • Paul McCartney In Concert - Detroit, MI<br>POP DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 01: Sir Paul McCartney performs during his One on One Tour at Little Caesars Arena on October 1, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images)

    Once upon a time … British pop stars top the charts as children’s authors

    Numerous comedians have shown they have the magic touch with bedtime stories: now it appears to be the musicians’ turn

December 2018

  • Snow White at the London Palladium

    Snow White review – festive filth from Julian Clary and Dawn French

    Rollerskating snowmen, a hydraulic dragon, a Strictly duo and Nigel Havers are among the attractions in this variety panto

May 2018

  • Rude health … Carry on Doctor with Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Williams.

    Get your hands off my double entendres! Is the smutty pun now under attack?

    It is Britain’s favourite type of humour, the go-to gag for everyone from Carry On stars to Bake Off hosts. But are fnarr fnarr jokes just another example of male sexual entitlement?

December 2017

  • Cue the UK-wide sequin shortage … Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells in Dick Whittington.

    Dick Whittington's smut outdoes the sparkle as panto pandemonium kicks off

  • Rhys Ifans as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic

    Christmas culture 2017
    The best theatre shows this Christmas – from panto to Pinocchio and Narnia

September 2017

  • James Nelson-Joyce and Julian Clary in the late Stephen Clark’s play Le Grand Mort.

    Le Grand Mort – Julian Clary slices and dices through tale of death, sex and veg

  • King Zulu by Jean Michel-Basquiat

    The ten best things to do this week
    The 10 best things to do this week: Basquiat and AND festival

December 2016

  • The Ugly Sisters from a production of the pantomime Cinderella

    Let’s put the pure back into pantomime

    Letters: I’m no prude, but I am sick to death of gimcrack TV “celebs” being allowed, even encouraged, irresponsibly to hijack our children’s airwaves, screens and stages
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