Can you tell me how Paul O'grady is doing?

Question

Just wondered how the t.v presenter Paul O'Grady, if he is still in hospital or out?

Answer 1

He is recovering at home with buster and olga. He says he will be back on our screens later in the year after he's recharged his batteries. I hope he comes back better than ever.

Answer 2

he is fine just trying to finish medics and round-up his therapy he should be up and running real soon

Answer 3

I believe he is getting on OK and at his farm.

Answer 4

I think he croaked, oh wait that was diggum

Answer 5

Paul James O'Grady (b. 14 June 1955 in Birkenhead, Wirral) is an English comedian and television personality. He is the creator of comic drag character Lily Savage (the "Birkenhead bombshell"), a vampish Liverpudlian woman. He is noted for his strong Wirral accent.

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1 Biography
1.1 Lily Savage
1.2 Television
2 Personal life
2.1 Health
3 Catchphrases
4 External links



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Biography
O'Grady was brought up in an Irish Catholic household in Tranmere. He attended St Anselm's College, Birkenhead. When he was 19 he worked as a clerk in a magistrate's court and met Diane Jansen, ten years his senior, with whom he had a daughter, Sharyn. Three years after his daughter was born, Paul wed a Portuguese lesbian waitress called Teresa Fernandes in a marriage of convenience.

His jobs have included civil servant, cleaner for Cleo Laine, office work in an abattoir and a woodsman. He has also worked in a children's home in Kirkby. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

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Lily Savage
In 1977, Paul went to Manila where he worked as a waiter in Gussy's Bar (also a brothel). It was here he got the idea for Lily Savage, his now famous drag alter-ego. He returned to London in the early 1980s and subsequently achieved fame with his creation of Lily, initially playing to gay clubs around Vauxhall in London but then taking the act into the mainstream. Lily first became popular on television as the 'On the Bed Presenter' on The Big Breakfast, a Channel 4 morning show. O'Grady once played a prostitute called Roxanne in an episode of The Bill. For a few years Lily hosted the game show Blankety Blank for the BBC and later for Talkback Thames shown on ITV, as well as her own comedy show Lily Live! (made by Carlton Television for the ITV Network, 2000).

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Television
More recently Paul reinvented himself as himself! In 2000 he appeared in a travelogue show as himself, entitled "Paul O'Grady's Orient", which was followed in 2001 by "Paul O'Grady's America". These were amongst his first major television appearances out of drag. From 2002 onwards, he has appeared less as Lily and more often as himself. In 2002 he presented Outtake TV, a bloopers show, and in 2003 for two series starred as the lead charcter in the BBC sitcom "Eyes Down", as the vicious yet hilarious manager of a northern Bingo hall. He also appeared in Celebrity Driving School for the BBC.

Since then, he has had success as the presenter of his own early evening talk show, The Paul O'Grady Show, on the ITV network. This show controversially ran head to head with Richard and Judy, (who are close friends of Paul), on rival terrestrial station Channel 4. He has guested on LivingTV's paranormal show, Most Haunted Live. In December 2005 he won the Best TV Comedy Entertainment Personality category of the British Comedy Award.

On the 10th January 2006, in a shock decision, O'Grady decided to defect from ITV and take his daytime chat show to Channel 4 after the company which produces Granada programming apparently 'forgot' to renew his contract. He is still in an ongoing dispute with ITV, regarding the use of props and studio design for his daytime chat show (The New Paul O'Grady Show). As a consequence of this, O'Grady has decided he never wants to work for ITV again and has pulled out of appearing on a new talent show and host of The British Soap Awards. He was very outspoken in his anger towards ITV plc for a while after his move to Channel 4, but less so recently.

On the 27th March 2006, Paul O'Grady began hosting his talk show, now called The New Paul O'Grady Show, on Channel 4. It is shown weekdays from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and this series ended it's run on the 16 June 2006. Channel Four's Richard and Judy went head to head with ITV's Paul O Grady Show during 2004 with the friends being forced against each other, but ever since O'Grady's decision to move to Channel Four, they have agreed to end old quarrels. Richard and Judy and O'Grady share the Channel Four 5pm-6pm slot with each show sharing 3 Months of the Channel 4 teatime schedule.

When Paul retired his Lily Savage character, he claimed she had "gone to a convent", but recently on his current TV show, he said, "she's escaped the convent and she's heading towards these shores!", which may signal the return of the Lily Savage character.

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Personal life
O'Grady is openly gay, accepting his earlier marriages as part of discovering himself. O'Grady is now very close to his daughter, who married her childhood friend Philip Moseley at Liverpool Town Hall on 30 July 2005. His long term lover and business partner of 20 years was Brendan Murphy, who died of cancer on 12 June 2005, two days before Paul's fiftieth birthday. After the first show of series three of the "Paul O'Grady Show", there was a tribute to him.

O'Grady owns a 200-acre farm in Aldington nr Ashford, Kent. The farm is stocked with 28 animals, including a flock of Geese which O'Grady refers to as the "Geese-stapo". O'Grady has a grey Bichon Frisé dog called Buster, who usually appears on his TV show with him, or occasionally will be replaced by Paul's other dog, Olga. He also has another dog called Louie, who has not yet appeared on the show.

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Health
In April 2002, O'Grady suffered a heart attack after weeks of complaining he felt unwell. After an emergency operation and weeks of rest, Paul's health recovered and he gave up smoking for two years.

O'Grady went back to his 40-a-day habit after ex-lover and business partner Brendan Murphy died in 2005. He resultantly suffered a second heart attack on 30 June 2006 [1]. Again he was taken to the William Harvey Hospital, and was taken into intensive care. He was then given an angioplasty operation, before being moved a cardiac unit. He was released on 4 July and again promised to give up smoking [2]