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Kenny Everett

July 2024

  • Collage of Madonna and Sandra Bernhard; The Wizard of Oz; Queer as Folk; Kenny Everett; Edward Scissorhands

    Loud and queer: Gareth Thomas, Rosie Jones and more on the culture that helped them find their true selves

    From a rugby great to a former MP, LGBTQ stars spill the beans on the shows, songs and films that made them understand their identity

November 2021

  • Rod Stewart: ‘I don’t mind the piss being taken out of me.’

    The reader interview
    Rod Stewart: ‘I got Elton a fridge for Christmas. He got me a Rembrandt’

    Answering Guardian readers’ questions, the singer discusses his epic railway modelling, his admiration of the Sex Pistols and the secrets of his hair regime

August 2019

  • Sheila Steafel, centre, with Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in a sketch from the BBC’s The Frost Report, 1967.

    Sheila Steafel obituary

    Versatile stage, screen and radio actor admired for her comic timing

April 2019

  • Urban Myths<br>Urban Myths Princess Diana Freddie Mercury &amp; Kenny Everett Based on a rumoured outing on which Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett smuggled Princess Diana into a gay bar, dressed as a male model.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Princess Di in drag – did this big night out really happen?

    The new series of Urban Myths gets off to a glittering start with Diana, disguised as a man, partying with Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett. Here’s the best TV to tune in for

October 2017

  • In 1983, Kenny Everett said at a Conservative student rally ‘let’s bomb Russia’

    Brief letters
    Have the Tories found their new Kenny Everett?

    Brief letters: Western movies and the American civil war | Salty pesto | Boris Johnson | Classical music | Benjamin Whitrow on radio

January 2017

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    Desert Island Discs: 75 defining moments from 75 years of castaways

    The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic

January 2016

  • Ed Stewart in 1975.

    Ed Stewart obituary

    DJ, broadcaster and television presenter best known for his radio request show Junior Choice and the children’s TV series Crackerjack

December 2015

  • TV Times and Radio Times Christmas 1985

    TV and radio blog
    Lovely jubbly: what the Christmas 1985 Radio Times tells us about Thatcher's Britain

    Christmas Day audiences were faced with a choice between Del Boy and Arthur Daley – but what else do the festive schedules tell us about the era we lived in?

April 2015

  • Jim Davidson

    Lost in showbiz
    Jim Davidson’s white nights with Freddie and Kenny are a real cocaine hell

    The comedian claims he spent much of the 90s snorting coke with the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury and funnyman Kenny Everett. Anyone buy his implausible bohemian rhapsody?

November 2014

  • Jemaine Clement

    What We Do In The Shadows: the return of the living deadpan

    Spinal Tap meets The Only Way Is Transylvania in this Kiwi vampire spoof. Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine tells us what’s at stake…

September 2014

  • Kate Bush

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best Kate Bush moments – in pictures

    Last month, we brought you our 10 best Kate Bush moments. Here, we present your thoughts on the ones that should have made the list

September 2013

  • Kenny Everett

    Hello, Darlings!: The Authorized Biography of Kenny Everett by James Hogg and Robert Sellers – review

    The real Kenny Everett remains obscured in in this cliched, sanitised life story, writes Rachel Cooke

May 2013

  • Cleo Rocos

    What I see in the mirror
    What I see in the mirror: Cleo Rocos

    'I sleep with sunglasses and lipstick by my bed in case of a fire and, if I put on weight, I just don't eat for a couple of days'

October 2012

  • Hunted

    Observer TV reviews
    Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review

  • The Best Possible taste

    TV review
    TV review: Best Possible Taste – The Kenny Everett Story; Welcome to India

April 2012

  • Kenny Everett, played by Oliver Lansley, with his wife, Lee Middleton, played by Katherine Kelly

    BBC to celebrate Kenny Everett

    Biopic to chart rise of maverick comedian who became famous for characters such as Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt

December 2010

  • Kenny Everett

    Radio review
    Radio review: Kenny Everett's Christmas Selection Box

  • Merru Christmas Morris Minor!

    Christmas radio highlights

November 2010

  • Kenny Everett

    Radio 2 lines up Kenny Everett show for Christmas schedule

    Programme to feature archive clips of DJ's jingles, 'fiddly bits' and comedy characters, and will be backed by documentary. By John Plunkett

March 2010

  • Kenny Everett performing as Sid Snot

    Kenny Everett to return to TV as BBC announces plans for biopic

    Film will focus on unhappy childhood of DJ and comedy performer who died in 1995
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