Lily Savage arrives on the Parkinson sofa in full regalia and immediately takes control of the room.
Within minutes she has assessed Michael Parkinson as a suitable companion, launched into the logistics of hosting Blankety Blank, and begun a detailed account of her incontinent whippet's recent incident in a Manchester hotel lift. The hotel manager, she notes, used the word defecated. She did not.
There is also a skincare clinic in Vauxhall, a very specific technique involving the back of a motorbike at 60 miles an hour, and several stories about Gabby Roslin that cannot be verified but are absolutely believable.
Paul O'Grady at the absolute peak of his powers, doing what no one else could do quite like this.
