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Julian Clary
Julian Clary to tour UK - 13/01/03
Julian Clary has announced a 46-date national tour. Julian
who is currently starring in panto in Woking will open his
Natural Born Mincer show in Newark on March 19.
His first tour in four years promises to be a celebration
of his 20 years in comedy.
A full list of dates is available at www.julianclary.net.
Julian Clary was born 25 May, 1959 in Teddington, Middlesex,
England. He is best known for his camp television compéreing
in outrageous costumes and his endless stream of sexual double
entendres and puns.
He provided the British public with an out gay man who was
also upfront about sex and sexuality. Julian Clary went to
a strict Catholic school in Ealing. He studied English and
drama at Goldsmith's College, in south London. He has had
a variety of jobs including a guard on the London Underground
and a singing telegram. At the age of 19 he had a girlfriend
but after she left him he started a relationship with a barman
at the Old Vic.
He started on the London comedy circuit as "Gillian Pie-Face",
wearing a kaftan, beads, and pink wig. His début television
appearance was on Channel 4 in Cabaret at the Jongleurs in
1988 as "The Joan Collins Fan Club" with Fanny the Wonderdog.
Fanny retired in 1988.
Also in the late 1980s he fell for Christopher and they became
lovers. They lost contact but then Christopher turned up diagnosed
HIV positive. They lived together until Christopher's death
three years later and Julian Clary scattered the ashes on
a beach in Portugal where they had spent a happy holiday together.
In 1993 he was the compére of the British Comedy Awards which
was being broadcast live on television. A sexual joke involving
Norman Lamont, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, received uproarious
laughter from the celebrity audience. Although there were
only 12 complaints from a viewing audience of 3 million, the
next day's press was indignant and called for him to be banned
from television.
As a result Julian Clary went on tour in Australia. He returned
to Britain in 1995 and took up acting and compéreing again.
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