I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister. — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals. — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years. — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share
I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
