Paul O’Grady as Lily Savage wine ‘tasting’ on This Morning is the best 93 seconds you’ll spend today
RIP the great Paul O’Grady, who has died aged 67, it was announced on Wednesday.
The comedian and presenter’s death prompted no end of tributes on Twitter and here are just a few of them.
I’m sad about Paul O’Grady. I hoped I might meet him one day to tell him what an inspiration he was to me: how I loved gloriously loose & effortless his shows were, how he proved you could be political in a light ent space and that you could do all this & be really, really funny.
— Joe Lycett (@joelycett) March 29, 2023
Working with Paul O’Grady was one of the greatest pleasures of my life. Funny, fearless and full of rage. The best. The world seems a little less bright.
— Sandi Toksvig (@sanditoksvig) March 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/TJ_Knight/status/1640904359289450496?s=20
Ah God, that is sad about Paul O’Grady. As you’re probably gathering from Twitter today, he was hugely popular, a warm generous character who got a ton of laughs and did a ton of good. He will be sorely missed.
— Dara Ó Briain (@daraobriain) March 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/exitthelemming/status/1640958227968868358?s=20
https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1640939229566889986?s=20
When we worked together at Ch4, Paul O’Grady insisted that new roles on his show were advertised in the local Job Centre. He wanted anyone and everyone to be able to apply so they could get a break like he had. And it made the show better. A kind and generous man. pic.twitter.com/aQbs2ZUkww
— Mark Downie (@markmdownie) March 29, 2023
And we enjoyed this clip in particular, when Paul, or rather Lily Savage, turned up for a bit of wine tasting on This Morning, back in the day when it was still presented by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.
And it’s simply magnificent.
The iconic Lily Savage pic.twitter.com/0I0tNSVmpu
— Mx Mike (They/Them) (@_MxMike) March 29, 2023
We’ll be raising a glass to Paul O’Grady tonight (probably rather sooner than that …)
Why I loved Paul O’Grady and why I loved Lily Savage.
Lily getting rotten drunk whilst doing a wine tasting live on This Morning in 1994-ish pic.twitter.com/jKoKV51gjv— Paul Stanworth (@paulstanworth) March 29, 2023
Lily Savage getting progressively more pissed during This Morning (at least 25 years ago) is so funny. Absolute icon. pic.twitter.com/2Rrfvn3bxI
— J Λ M Ξ S (@jamesglynn) March 29, 2023
"I'm not paying a fiver for wine, I'm sorry. Not while there's Blue Nun in the shop." https://t.co/n0gnWBcck3
— Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic) March 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/Tim_A_Roberts/status/1640955666931097602?s=20
Source Twitter @_MxMike/status